The first person to coin the phrase “assault weapon” was Adolph Hitler, anbd here it is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StG_44
The first full automatic rifle, in production BEFORE Mr. Kalashnikov’s AK-** series of rifles.
Any of the rifles that are on Senator Babs Feinstein’s list, are SEMI-AUTOMATIC.
Just to trip these Congressional idiots up, until we vote them, or (let’s just leave that unanswered, for now);
I’d buy TWO, yes, TWO lever action rifles, well, maybe THREE.
1. Caliber .30-30, your choice of brand.
2. Caliber .45-70 (Read the tests done in Sandy Hook, NJ, 1800’s.)
3. Caliber .357 Magnum, your choice of brand.
Yes, I have heard all the arguments between an SKS (semi), AK (semi), AR (semi), and all the rest, that have always brought out a (semi) to compare.
Do you, the reader, see the commonality of those arguing? I don’t think they realize, that the legal eyes, Unconstitutional or not, are looking at (semi) right now, and not lever action. Yes, I support their right to own them, but I also admit that I have shot them in the past, while in military uniform, and they are not my cup of tea. You can blaze away, singularly firing each cartridge, as fast as your finger doesn’t cramp, and that’s ok. I ‘know my limitations’, know my tubular magazine limit, know to ‘shoot two, load two’, and above all, know my range length capability, with each fired cartridge and lever throw. I, also, know that a successfully launched .45-70 projectile will have enough, at range enough, to do what is required. Take a ‘one ounce fishing weight’, launch it with enough velocity to mortally wound an American Bison at 300 yards, at point of aim/point of impact, from a lever action rifle.
(Watch Hickok45 on YouTube hit the gong, (loudly), at 200 yards!)
Have a nice day!
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I agree. I have one lever action now, my next one is going to be a .45-70 Marlin. Very popular in grizzly country.