Dominic considered how he could accelerate the manufacturing process. If he didn't do a wooden gun butt, and used a metallic shell with a leather back pad, it would save him at least fifteen minutes per rifle.
That was a good start.
They also had premade rifle barrels, forged and machine milled with standardized rifling and an octagonal exterior. If he cast the receiver, and used the provided pressure canisters, he could save another fifteen minutes.
At that point, he would be rushing through the whole thing in an hour, with no sense of finesse. Just enough time to check tolerances and file things roughly flat, the way he had for the first batch.
They were not works of art, but they had been produced on a very limited timeline. Of course, so were these ones, as the attack had most likely already started. The faster they sent rifles to the training grounds and front lines, the more lives they could save.
