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When using the air blessing's Zephyr's Gift with a Firearm, does this means you can make ranged touch attacks regardless of distance?
Air Blessing
Source Advanced Class Guide pg. 63
Deities: Gozreh, Shelyn.Zephyr's Gift (minor): At 1st level, you can touch any one ranged weapon and enhance it with the quality of air. For 1 minute, any attacks made with the weapon take no penalties due to range. In addition, making a ranged attack with this weapon doesn’t provoke an attack of opportunity.
Early Firearms: When firing an early firearm, the attack resolves against the target’s touch AC when the target is within the first range increment of the weapon, but this type of attack is not considered a touch attack for the purposes of feats and abilities such as Deadly Aim. At higher range increments, the attack resolves normally, including taking the normal cumulative –2 penalty for each full range increment. Unlike other projectile weapons, early firearms have a maximum range of five range increments.
Based on the wording I agree with Saldiven. Negating a penalty does not remove what gave it. That said if I was DMing a home game I would CONSIDER house ruling it to work if I liked the character concept.
... For 1 minute, any attacks made with the weapon take no penalties due to range ...
No penalties means you can shoot 105 feet with a pistol and not take a -10 to hit.
It mentions nothing about range increments nor anything about extending bonuses or special abilities.
When firing an early firearm, the attack resolves against the target’s touch AC when the target is within the first range increment of the weapon...
The language you are looking for can be found here:
A distance weapon has double the range increment of other weapons of its kind.
A pistol now has a range increment of 40ft, any attacks made within 40ft resolve against the target's touch AC.