Mark Kelly Whips Up Fear of ‘Gas-Operated’ AR-15s: Here’s Why that Doesn’t Mean Anything

Breitbart ^ | 12/01/2023 | AWR HAWKINS

[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.”

[mabarker1]

Send both of them to the ISS to clean the outside of the ISS Windows.

And cut the wires to the microphone in their EVA Suits.

[Gay State Conservative]

Unconstituional...as already ruled by SCOTUS.

[ByteMercenary]

I am sure that Kelly knows that the only folks who listen to him for more than 37 seconds are his double-digit IQ constituents, folks that believe almost anything.

[mabarker1]

Shades of cokeface pedojoe jr. 4473 Form...

[old-ager]

It’s just for the kick of having Fedex deliver it directly.

[abbastanza]

Problem is that most of them are stupid and dangerous, not just him.

[old-ager]

There was also a certain amount of irony in my post.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I can’t decide between solar and wind operation. Hydro would be too inconvenient.

[Afterguard]

Yeah but, the piston is gas driven. (See AK-47, et al). Just no escaping gas operated guns unless it’s a simple blowback bolt like pistol caliber carbines and handguns. Oh wait... That’s what the moron wants, isn’t it.

[pas]

It is clear he never came back from space.

[JimRed]

The M-1 combat rifle with which I trained in USN basic training was a gas-operated semiautomatic weapon. Big whoop.

[JimRed]

A well-placed shot with a .22 short will kill you just as dead.

[NorthMountain]

irony

Fair point.

And there was something special about getting my M1 delivered by USPS.

[GMThrust]

They already started “banning” people with the cov thing.

[circlecity]

The most popular small game rifle for kids to learn to hunt with for the last 60 years is the Ruger 10/22. A gas operated rifle with a detachable magazine.

[sauropod]

Yes, it is.

[rlmorel]

Well, if I cannot have an F-15, I will take one of those!

[Taxman]

DUMB AND DUMBER!

STUPID AND STUPIDER?

[Robert357]

Most cheap sub-machine guns used in WW2 were blow back action weapons and not the more complicated gas operated semiautomatics.

I would much rather have a blow back sub-machine gun than a semiautomatic AR clone.

[muir_redwoods]

I find it ironic when politicians complain about gas.