Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: How Military Guns Make the Civilian Market [View all]Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)The hand-me-down approach of military-to-civilian use is a couple hundred yrs old, now. Curiously exception: The Remington Model 8 was a .35 high-powered rifle developed for civilian use in 1908. It was semi-automatic. The U.S. Army would wait another 33 yrs before sending its troops into combat with a similar technology.
U.S. and military forces around the world now equip soldiers with Full-Auto rifles. U.S. civilians are still dancing with whut brung 'em: semi-auto technologies
I think the beef, again, is with magazine capacity. And that horse first bolted the barn with a civilian rider. Incidentally, the Model 1911 Colt pistol is a 100+ yr old semi-auto design only somewhat different from Barettas and a host of other makes: shoots fast as you pull the trigger.