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Mark Kelly Whips Up Fear of ‘Gas-Operated’ AR-15s: Here’s Why that Doesn’t Mean Anything
Breitbart ^ | 12/01/2023 | AWR HAWKINS

Posted on 12/01/2023 7:53:52 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) is pushing a ban on AR-15s by focusing on their gas operation system approximately 64 years after the gun’s design included such a system.

Breitbart News reported that Sen. Angus King (I-ME) and a group of Senate Democrats, including Kelly, introduced an AR-15 ban early Thursday. In so doing, they used new catchphrases such as “lethal capacity weapons” and “gas-operated semiautomatic.

Later Thursday, Kelly posted a video on X in which he continued to emphasize the new catchphrases by explaining that this latest attempt to ban AR-15s and similar rifles “focuses on the lethality of their internal mechanisms.”

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KEYWORDS: ar15s; chicagocusservative; chicagofecesfan; chicagofecesmouth; fear; frpottymouths; gasoperated; kelly; noclassonfr; whatamaroon
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To: utdutt
I’ve been looking for a reason to buy one of those Sig piston driven AR’s, maybe this is it

Gas drives the piston.

21 posted on 12/01/2023 8:13:41 AM PST by IndispensableDestiny
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To: ChicagoConservative27

When they run on electricity instead of “gas” they will be widely accepted by Democrats.


22 posted on 12/01/2023 8:14:15 AM PST by ThePatriotsFlag (Accepting a false premise initiates conversational defeat.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

That makes as much sense as the idea that AR’s should be banned because they look scary.


23 posted on 12/01/2023 8:14:39 AM PST by Spok (It takes a lot of learning to understand how little we know. (Paraphrasing Thomas Sowell.))
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To: qaz123
this man tried to buy an A.R. 15 and was turned down

Curious, why was he turned down?

24 posted on 12/01/2023 8:17:57 AM PST by SJackson (In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.)
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To: qaz123

Never mind, I remember the store turned him down.


25 posted on 12/01/2023 8:20:15 AM PST by SJackson (In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He’s just talking to the ignorant. Geez I can’t stand assholes like him.


26 posted on 12/01/2023 8:21:32 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Don't be fooled by the "gas-operated" moniker. The GOSAFE ACT bans ALL semi-auto rifles with detachable magazines, regardless of its semi-auto mechanism, be it gas operated, recoil operated, or pure blowback.

From the proposed bill:

(40) The term ‘gas-operated’, with respect to a semi-automatic firearm, means any firearm that harnesses or traps a portion of the high-pressure gas from a fired cartridge to cycle the action using—

(A) a long stroke piston, where gas is vented from the barrel to a piston that is mechanically fixed to the bolt group and moves to cycle the action;
(B) a short stroke piston, where gas is vented from the barrel to a piston that moves separately from the bolt group so that the energy is imparted through a gas piston to cycle the action;
(C) a system that traps and vents gas from either the barrel or the chamber to directly strike or impinge the bolt, bolt carrier, or slide assembly, to unlock and cycle the action;
(D) a hybrid system that combines elements of a system described in subparagraph (C) with a system described in subparagraph (A) or (B) to capture gas vented from the barrel to cycle the action;
(E) a blowback-operated system that directly utilizes the expanding gases of the ignited propellant powder acting on the cartridge case to drive the breechblock or breech bolt rearward; or
(F) a recoil-operated system that utilizes the recoil force to unlock the breech bolt and then to complete the cycle of extracting, ejecting, and reloading.
They just emphasized "gas-operated" so they could get the acronym "GOSAFE."
27 posted on 12/01/2023 8:22:07 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: Magnum44

LOL!!! One of my early experiences in the Army at ROTC summer camp in 1964 (that’s right, 1964) was getting the new recruit’s classic illness of “M1 Thumb” when I didn’t get my thumb out of the way of the bolt as it was coming forward. Since, before the Tragic Boating Accident, I owned two AR 15 style rifles, I know that particular injury is not one that new recruits need to fear, the design of the weapon having been changed.


28 posted on 12/01/2023 8:22:29 AM PST by libstripper
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’m converting my AR-15 to coal. Just to piss them off.


29 posted on 12/01/2023 8:22:45 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I can’t wait for CMP ARs.

This freak wants to ban your M1 Garand (circa 1929).


30 posted on 12/01/2023 8:24:03 AM PST by old-ager
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To: Billthedrill

I’ve converted my Ruger PCC to nuclear. Clean, safe energy.


31 posted on 12/01/2023 8:25:47 AM PST by JusPasenThru (ESG is a hunting license on Republicans.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

gas-operated semiautomatic

And, horror of horrors, it shoots LIVE ammunition...


32 posted on 12/01/2023 8:27:01 AM PST by Paisan
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To: old-ager
I can’t wait for CMP ARs.

Wouldn't be worth it. Buy one on the free market; you'll get a better weapon in better condition.

33 posted on 12/01/2023 8:28:08 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Humans are gas operated.


34 posted on 12/01/2023 8:29:29 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

kelly is gas operated... feh


35 posted on 12/01/2023 8:31:14 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The right of the people go keep and bear arms, but not if directly impinged.


36 posted on 12/01/2023 8:43:43 AM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

My guns have gas?


37 posted on 12/01/2023 8:44:25 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: Gaffer

This isn’t ignorance, it’s treachery.

There’s a group of anti-gun activists based in Norcal and in DC who have been trying to get around a couple of decades of court rulings that the efforts to ban “features” that kept getting overturned, all essentially resting on the laws being “void for vagueness” . For about a decade, California kept chasing its tail, adding “new” firearms to their “assault weapons list”, because the courts had said that it wasn’t reasonable to expect someone to realize that their rifle was an “assault weapon” because it had something that someone could later say was a banned fature.

So they went back to the drawing board, and in Cali, said “ok, you can’t have a detachable magazine” on a centerfire semi-automatic rifle. But even that didn’t work at first, because people invented the “bullet button”, and so the state had to draft new legislation to ban that, specifically.

This latest dodge has been simmering for a while, and I first caught wind of it from what people still remember as the “Legal Community Against Gun Violence” (now a part of Giffords gun-grabbing Everytown), who are certainly evil gun-grabbers and far-left socialist dirtbags, but are a long way from being stupid. They had realized, through their experience litigating the California legislation (they’re based in San Francisco), was that they needed to focus on something that was both “non ambiguous”, and fundamental to the functioning of modern firearms. This bill is the latest, and now national, example of this new approach.

These people are dangerous, and like the Terminator, they just won’t stop. We need to stay ahead of them, and be aware of their latest schemes. Otherwise, they’ll seize a momentary control of the congress, senate and presidency as they did with Obamacare, and ram something radical through.

It’s a mistake to underestimate their lust for power, willingness to lie, and frankly, their creativity.


38 posted on 12/01/2023 8:53:19 AM PST by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They literally chose the term to make the acronym work.


39 posted on 12/01/2023 8:53:41 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: rlmorel; Red Badger
Like this ?
40 posted on 12/01/2023 8:54:53 AM PST by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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