Assault Rifles Are From 1907

This is going around Facebook and makes some excellent points. Keep this post in your favorites the next time anyone wants to ban assault rifles.

In 1907, our great grandparents were first able to buy the rifle pictured. The semi-auto Winchester Model 1907. They could buy it from a Sears catalog and have it 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 fires 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, much feared and maligned AR15 is the modern scary black furniture (plastic stock, rails, etc).To summarize: The semi auto, so-called "assault rifle" is over 110 years old. It isn't new in any way other than aesthetics.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, has been and is safely owned by civilians. The proof is that literally 3 generations of adults owned and used them responsibly and no one ever even noticed.Instead of focusing on century old technology that was never and issue, fix the things that HAVE CHANGED for the worse over the last 50-60 years.Because the rifle technology in question was here long before the insanity it's getting getting blamed for today.