(The Center Square) – U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Arizona, has introduced legislation he says will save lives and protect communities from gun violence while protecting Americans’ constitutional right to own a firearm. Gun rights groups said the legislative proposal is clearly unconstitutional. The GOSAFE Act would regulate the sale, transfer and manufacture of gas-operated semi-automatic firearms by establishing a list of prohibited firearms and prevent the unlawful modification of permissible fire
The bill is obviously unconstitutional and has no chance of passing in a Republican Congress. So of course it’s a good idea
The transparent nature of trying to end run around having to call it a semi-auto ban is frustrating. Gas operation is framed as something particularly heinous and the writers hope everyone just starts chanting in support. If it ever got passed (it won’t I know) you just know the same people would push for recoil operation to be covered, because of course that’s the dream.