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 Blackvegetable
As CITATIONS consistently show, they WERE designed for combat, and later "modified"....or, as some wag once put it "heavily reengineered"...

No, citations do not show that.  Citations show the weapons you fear ARE NOT designed for battlefield use.  They are specifically designed to NOT have battlefield us.

This is a weapon that was specifically designed for battlefield:


 
It is a replica of a Henry 45 Colt repeating rifle. 10 round fixed magazine.  Designed inn1860 as a 44 with the 45 coming in the 1870s. SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FOR THE BATTLEFIELD.

Using your criteria we have to ban it.