Via Allen 
112 years ago, in 1907...our great grandparents were first able to buy the rifle pictured. The semi-auto Winchester Model 1907.
This is a gun they could buy from a Sears catalog and have delivered via USPS. It was/ is a semi-automatic, high powered centerfire rifle, with detachable, high capacity magazine.
About 400,000 of these were produced before.
WW2. Civilians had hundreds of thousands of these semi-auto rifles for 40 years, while US soldiers were still being issued old fashioned bolt action rifles.
The 1907 fired just as fast as an AR15 or AK47 and the bullet (.351 Winchester) was actually larger than those fired by the more modern looking weapons..
The ONLY functional difference between the 1907 and a controversial and much feared AR15 is the modern black plastic stock.
To summarize: The semi auto, so-called "assault rifle" is 110 years old. It isn't new in any way.
The semi auto rifle was not a weapon of war. The government MADE IT a weapon of war 40 years after civilians had them.
The semi-auto can be safely owned by civilians. The proof is that literally 3 generations of adults owned and used them responsibly and no one ever even noticed.
Want to fix the horror of mass shootings? Fix the things that have changed for the worse in the last 50 years.
Because the rifle technology in question was here long before this insanity
112 years ago, in 1907...our great grandparents were first able to buy the rifle pictured. The semi-auto Winchester Model 1907.
This is a gun they could buy from a Sears catalog and have delivered via USPS. It was/ is a semi-automatic, high powered centerfire rifle, with detachable, high capacity magazine.
About 400,000 of these were produced before.
WW2. Civilians had hundreds of thousands of these semi-auto rifles for 40 years, while US soldiers were still being issued old fashioned bolt action rifles.
The 1907 fired just as fast as an AR15 or AK47 and the bullet (.351 Winchester) was actually larger than those fired by the more modern looking weapons..
The ONLY functional difference between the 1907 and a controversial and much feared AR15 is the modern black plastic stock.
To summarize:The semi auto, so-called "assault rifle" is 110 years old. It isn't new in any way.
The semi auto rifle was not a weapon of war. The government MADE IT a weapon of war 40 years after civilians had them.
The semi-auto can be safely owned by civilians. The proof is that literally 3 generations of adults owned and used them responsibly and no one ever even noticed.
Want to fix the horror of mass shootings? Fix the things that have changed for the worse in the last 50 years.
Because the rifle technology in question was here long before this insanity
And they stood in the corner of a closet in many homes.
ReplyDeleteThe children did not bother them because the children obeyed "Do not touch."
Oh for a time machine....
Thanks for a reminder of they beauty of what was.
the beauty of what was.
Delete& they certainly were.Just checked and found one for $4,250. :(
"Civilians had hundreds of thousands of these semi-auto rifles for 40 years, while US soldiers were still being issued old fashioned bolt action rifles."
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At the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the American Indians used modern repeating lever-action Winchesters, while the Cavalry had only out-dated breech-loading single-shot carbines, which frequently jammed because of ammunition problems.
Officers were permitted to purchase modern revolvers with which to arm themselves, but enlisted personnel could only use sub-standard Army issue.
Oh, by the way, in the famous painting(s) of Custer's last stand, that was Colonel George Armstrong Custer's brother being accurately depicted, as Colonel Custer was one of the very first casualties, having been shot and killed before the main battle even started, while crossing the
stream.
I love telling folks that I was a Scout in the Seventh Cavalry!
It was not when I was in the old Republic of Viet Nam, where I was a Specialist Four, E-4, Field Radio Relay and Carrier Equipment Repairman (MOS 31L20) in the Signal Corps of my own beloved United States Army, but many years later, when I was a Corporal, E-4, Armored Reconnaissance Specialist, i.e., "Cavalry Scout" (MOS 11D20) in the 1/7th Cavalry, in
the First Cavalry Division at Fort Hood, Texas.
(Yes, boys and girls, I certainly was busted for insubordination!
But, can you believe they STILL awarded me yet ANOTHER Good Conduct Medal AND gave me an Honorable Discharge?)
insubordination:)
DeleteGoing to the nearest town to seek out girls when it was off limits after Tet '68?
https://www.namsouth.com/viewtopic.php?t=19&
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After things cooled off and Bien Hoa still remained off limits, I would go there on Saturday http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esWgzAF4hf8&feature=related
by walking through the front gate at Long Binh, tell them I was going to the 90th Replacement, (which was a short walk away) and then about half way my appointed black Citroen would be waiting where I would dive on the back floor for the trip. This was then reversed on Monday mornings. Crazy, crazy crazy...... One Monday, it didn't go like clockwork. As my friend and I were walking with large glasses of hot Vietnamese coffee, a MP jeep suddenly appeared around the corner. We dropped our glasses and took off down side alleys until we were out of breath, but got away.