“Gas Operated Semi-Automatic Firearm Exclusion Act”
Statement from the Gun Owners of Maine Board of Directors:
Senator Angus King’s GOSAFE Act proposal is not only misguided but dangerous.
Instead of focusing on curbing violence perpetrated by individuals with mental health problems, he is seeking to infringe not only on law-abiding citizens but on the future manufacture of firearms by “mandating that future gas-operated designs are approved before manufacture.” This would set a dangerous precedent for the government to further dictate how United States citizens defend themselves, and the Orwellian undertones are unsettling.
Go here to see Senator King’s summation of the bill. While you’re at his site, we’d encourage you to utilize his own “Contact” page to express your concern regarding this proposal.
Senator King’s proposal would make tens of millions of firearms that have already been deemed legal to own by the Supreme Court illegal.
By putting forth “feel good” legislation that on the surface might sound like a solution to violence, when in reality, the proposal further limits what kind of firearms are legal, makes arbitrary magazine capacity limits, requires legal gun owners to return their legally purchased firearms to the government knowing full well any criminals will not do so, leaving the law-abiding defenseless;
…Senator King is complicit in treading all over the United States Constitution.
Gun Owners of Maine oppose all legislation that removes the right to bear arms from law-abiding citizens. We maintain that evil lies in the hearts of men, not in inanimate objects, regardless of their capacity or firing mechanism.
We look forward to the day when our Representatives in Congress are willing to sit down and have a serious discussion about how to address the mental health crisis that is taking place in our state and country instead of putting forth legislation that only harms the law-abiding.
Gas-Operated Semi-Automatic Firearms Exclusion (GOSAFE) Act, Bill Text
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Senator Anus King is on the wrong side of the law..
They are outlawing the operating systems used by the majority of firearms on the planet, and calling them “unusually lethal and dangerous”. Semi-autos are everywhere, ubiquitous, the very opposite of unusual. They’re banning not just a class of weapons, which SCOTUS already said was unconstitutional, but a whole SWATH of weapons… like saying “we won’t just ban sports cars with low profiles and tail fins, but every manual transmission on the market. Then they have the nerve to redirect tax stamp revenue to the AG, and to charge gun manufacturers a fee while forcing them to ask permission to make new… Read more »
i thought the residents of maine were smarter than to elect some renegade despot loser. fix your problem recall the bum
Why don’t Republicans counterattack with similar bills criminalizing abortion and chronic public protesting? Why don’t they ever fight back????
Ban IiberaIs!!!
It’s all in the name.
They want to hold progun people for blocking a bill with the name gosafe knowing that stupid people will not educate themselves on the real facts.
So they can now label gun owners as not safe.
well when they get struck down on some of their legislation they just ignore it ,so i guess we can do the same thing since they don’t follow the laws why should we. ft
Waste of time and effort. It will never make it through the whole Senate as they need 60 votes unless it is a funding bill. Secondly, it will never make it through the House of Representatives in an election year. Please, everyone, stop with the Chicken Little, Sky is falling. The legal side is even a tougher row to hoe. The time to start worrying is if there is a terror attack on the Supreme Court and we lose the Conservative Justices.
Somewhere, John Moses Browning is having a hard time controlling his laughter.
These scumbag Nazis REALLY want to take our semi-auto rifles, for the purpose of EFFECTIVELY disarming us, and tipping the BALANCE OF POWER – FIRMLY TO GOVERNMENT ADVANTAGE!
Fancy words to ban AR15’s.