The proof is that literally 3 generations of adults owned and used them responsibly and no one ever even noticed. The semi-auto can be safely owned by civilians. The government MADE IT a weapon of war 40 years after civilians had them. The semi-auto rifle was not a weapon of war. The semi-auto, so-called "assault rifle" is 115 years old. The ONLY functional difference between the 1907 and a controversial and much-feared AR15 is the buffer tube and black plastic stock. The 1907 fired just as fast as an AR15 or AK47 and the bullet (.351 Winchester) was quite larger than those fired by the more modern-looking weapons. Civilians had hundreds of thousands of semi-auto rifles for 40 years, while US soldiers were still being issued old-fashioned bolt action rifles. It was/is a semi-automatic, high-powered centerfire rifle, with a detachable, "high-capacity" magazine.Ībout 400,000 semi-automatic rifles were produced before WWI. This is a gun they could buy from a Sears catalog and have delivered via US Post to their doorstep without a background check, or any knowledge from a government agency that they owned it. A hundred and fifteen years ago, in 1907.our great-great-grandparents were first able to buy the first mass-produced semi-auto Rifle, the Winchester Model 1907.
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