Yeah, that’s my guess too. They’re too stupid to realize that the ‘gas’ from a cartridge eventually has to get translated to mechanical energy to push something (a bullet or a BCG or a piston) and that ‘gas’ from the powder explosion will be released into the environment.
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.
One thing Mr. Kelly isn’t realizing...every vehicle that ever used a piston is gas operated. The hot expanding gasses of the ignition of the fuel / air mixture uses those gasses to drive the piston downward. Is he going to seek to bad internal combustion engines too?
It is not stupidity.
We saw this in Canada.
First the Liberals banned direct impingement semi-autos. The gun lobby tried to argue they were no different than pushrod activation.
Then a couple years later, the Liberals said pushrod semi autos are just the same and benned them as well.
And their urban idiot voters said fine: you are punishing people we hate, so we don’t care about the details.