Michigan state Sen. Jonathan Lindsey (R) voiced opposition to Democrats’ “ghost gun” ban by suggesting that if such a ban had been in place in the 1770s it would have undercut the American Revolution.
The Detroit News quoted Lindsey saying, “If this law existed at the moment of our founding, America itself would not exist.”
He expounded by noting that the guns the colonists used to “fight back against the tyranny of the British government” were guns that Democrats would label “ghost guns” today.
In sum, Lindsey said “our nation most likely would not exist” if guns without serial numbers had been illegal at the time of the revolution.
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Democrat state Sen. Mallory McMorrow attempted to counter Lindsey, saying, “I would also like to make
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