Via Daily Caller:
A popular gun control mantra is that the founding fathers could not have envisioned assault rifles when they wrote the Second Amendment. Turns out that idea is bunk, according to an investigation by The Daily Caller News Foundation.
TheDCNF found “repeater,” multi-shot rifles from even prior to the Revolutionary period. Further, the investigation shows that founders and leaders from that time period were starkly aware of advancements in innovations in small arms manufacturing.
“Of course, semiautomatic firearms technology didn’t exist in any meaningful sense in the era of the founding fathers. They had something much different in mind when they drafted the Second Amendment,” according to a recent article by The Washington Post. “The typical firearms of the day were muskets and flintlock pistols. They could hold a single round at a time, and a skilled shooter could hope to get off three or possibly four rounds in a minute of firing.”
*Assault rifles are fully automatic, selective fire rifles. An AR-15 is a semi-automatic. Semi-automatics are capable only of firing one bullet per trigger pull.