It came to me a bit late in the year, but I just realized that 2012 is the 125th anniversary of the patent of the world’s first automatic shoulder-fired battle rifle, the Mondragón [1]. Talk about being far ahead of one’s time! The inventor, Manuel Mondragón [2] was born in 1859. And speaking of fully automatic firearms, isn’t it high time that we repeal the National Firearms Act of 1934, and disband the BATFE? [3] Or, failing that at least repeal the unconstitutional and never properly enacted 1986 machinegun production freeze, and declare a one-year amnesty period to register or re-register any un-papered full autos? Please encourage your Congresscritters and our next president to put that on their “to do” list.
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Today’s first article is by our Medical Editor, Dr. Cynthia Koelker.