How Does It Work: Direct Gas Impingement
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Direct gas impingement is an operating system that has been used only in a few production guns (all of them rifles). It is extremely simple, although perhaps not well suited to adjustability. It is also not the operating system of the AR series of rifles - we will cover those in a separate video next month.
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