Reply #5: Did Ben West Jr. take some of his material from the Amendment II Democrats website?

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Although the first semi-automatic rifle was designed and built by German-born Ferdinand Ritter von Mannlicher back in 1885, it was American gunsmith John Moses Browning who first introduced semi-automatics to the civilian market, including the Remington Autoloading Repeating Rifle, first manufactured in 1906 and renamed the Model 8 in 1911. The semi-automatic firearm has been in civilian hands longer than the fuel-injected engine, the personal computer, the microwave oven, the credit card, the television, the snowmobile, and even the humble tube of lipstick.

And, for the longest time, nobody complained.

It is true that the 1994 gun ban did not prohibit all semi-automatics, but, as we have seen earlier, a semi-auto is a semi-auto, no matter how mean or scary someone thinks a particular model is. The basic firing mechanism is still the same, and the technology is a hundred years old. So if you feel that "assault weapons" have no place in society, then you also feel that semi-automatics of any kind have no place in society. But our nation has persevered for close to a hundred years with these guns in private hands, and there appears to be no sign of fundamental social breakdown as a result.

http://www.a2dems.net/top10myths.htm

Now compare the above excerpt with the latter part of West's own article and tell me what you think. Me, I'm thinking...

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