Earlier today my colleague Tom Knighton covered the introduction of the “Gas-Operated Semi-Automatic Firearms Exclusion (GOSAFE) Act” sponsored by Sens. Angus King of Maine and New Mexico’s Martin Heinrich, which would ban the production and sale of the vast majority of modern sporting rifles that are currently on the market. While gun control groups like Everytown are tripping over themselves to portray the bill as some sort of new approach to combatting mass shootings, the truth is that this is still just a sweeping gun ban; gussied up with some new language, to be sure, but with the same old intent behind it.
People should read the bill to understand that the gun banners are defining “gas operated” as any semi-auto which somehow uses the force of expanding gas. In other words, any semi-auto. Not a mistake. This is the plan.
https://t.co/CKghrWkVpC— Tom Gresham (@Guntalk) November 30, 2023
In a statement, the firearms industry trade group the National Shooting Sports Foundation, slammed the introduction of the GOSAFE Act, with senior vice president and general counsel Larry Keane declaring it openly defies the U.S. Constitution and the Second Amendment.
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