Gas block with an extended portion designed to act as a heat sink and provide structural support to the gas tube

Abstract

An improved gas impingement system including an upper receiver incorporating a barrel. A gas block is secured to a forward location of the barrel and includes a rearward extending portion shrouding a forward portion of a gas tube connected to the gas block. The gas tube is in communication with a gas port defined in the gas block extending to an interior of the barrel. The gas tube extends rearwardly from the gas block and communicates at a rear end with a key of a bolt carrier positioned within a firing chamber of the upper receiver. Upon discharging a ballistic from a cartridge contained within the chamber, pressurized gas resulting from the discharge is diverted through the gas port, gas block, and gas tube to the key, causing the bolt carrier to move rearward, with the rearward extending portion of the gas block both structurally supporting the gas tube and externally sinking heat from the gas tube.

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