It was Mr. Henry who conceived the first practical, lever action repeating rifle patented in1860. The Henry gave a single man the firepower of a dozen marksmen armed with muzzle-loading muskets. When were repeating rifles used in the Civil War?
In 1903 and 1905, the Winchester Repeating Arms Company introduced the first semi-automatic rimfire and centerfire rifles designed especially for the civilian market. TheWinchester Model 1903and Winchester Model 1905 operated on the principle of blowback in order to function semi-automatically. Does an...
or ammunition that can fire off who-knows-how-many rounds in seconds. That’s not what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they wrote the Second Amendment. They couldn’t imagine the technology we have today. They were thinking about muskets and cannons, not assault rifles and nerve gas...
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