Can Our Society Implement a De-Escalation of Force? Part Two

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5. I'd LOVE to have a light-recoiling deer rifle. "Assault rifles" are "good" for infantry.

The AR 10 class of weapons (which handle heavier/larger calibers) would be quite nice for the field, but the overall weight exceeds my Rem Model 700, and they are expensive. I don't find much "good" in using an assault rifle as I have no need for full-auto fire, and use of such in the field is illegal.

Haven't checked on the racial component of either, but I am told the old Rem Model 8/81 .35 was a good brush gun, and in some instances favored by blacks in the deep South. I believe it worked as well for them as for whites. The Model 8/81 (1908) was semi-auto as well. As is the Garand, as is the M1 Carbine.

Edit: the first Assault Rifle was developed by the Germans in 1944; the AK-47 came 3 yrs later. Neither are semi-auto only, as is the AR 15.

For fun, I would like a Model 8. Hear-tell the mechanical recoil is as loud as the report! But the old .35 is an excellent round, and still chambered in the Marlin lever action.