Michigan Senate Bans ‘Ghost Guns’

By Darwin Nercesian The Truth About Guns

First of all, there is no such thing as a “ghost gun.” This is a made-up term by the anti-Second Amendment lobby used to create a negative stigma around homemade firearms, which have been a deeply rooted tradition throughout American history dating back to the founding. These firearms have never carried with them any requirement for serialization and have only been referred to as “ghost guns” in recent years by leftists looking to disarm law-abiding Americans.

The Michigan Senate, unconcerned with the Constitution or the rights of its citizens, approved Senate Bills 1149 and 1150 along party lines, 20-15, on December 12. Legislation, now bound for the House, could potentially ban the manufacturing, assembling, selling, purchasing, importing, and possessing firearms or firearm parts not marked with a valid serial number.

According to the anti-Second Amendment clown show Everytown for Gun Safety, “ghost guns” are firearms that can be assembled by a private citizen using ready-made kits. Like most of the rhetoric spouted by these anti-American brownshirts, however, this is not true. Individuals have assembled homemade guns since firearms existed, long before the advent of any receiver kits. Even today, 80% receiver kits are not the line in the sand, as legislators also push to ban citizens from building firearms from scratch, part of which can be accomplished with the help of a 3D printer. In fact, SB 1149 and 1150 ban those as well.

In 2022, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), elected themselves as legislators, something they do often and unconstitutionally, creating a “rule” by which homemade guns are regulated to the same standards as commercially manufactured firearms. The “rule” was contested and ultimately made its way to the United States Supreme Court in Garland v. VanDerStok, where oral arguments were heard in October of this year, and a decision from the High Court on the constitutionality of the “rule” is pending. It is important to note that should the Justices decide in favor of the ATF and Biden administration, they will be in complete contradiction of their own decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, requiring courts to consider the “historical tradition of firearm regulation” in the United States when determining whether a law affecting the right to bear arms is constitutional.

Proponents of banning homemade firearms argue the weapons are nearly impossible to track and can be manufactured without having to undergo background checks, a requirement conspicuously not enshrined in the simple and abundantly clear language of the Second Amendment. Democrat and sponsor of the bills, Senator Mallory McMorrow, claims they are designed to target those who seek to circumvent the law, however, like her seditious cohorts at Everytown, she too is being deceitful. The people she is speaking of are already breaking the law, so what good will another law do? The legislation will restrict only those who already follow the law, in other words, the law-abiding.

“Currently anyone, including dangerous individuals who are prohibited from purchasing firearms under Michigan law, can go online and buy all of the parts needed to quickly build an untraceable firearm at home…This bill prohibits the sale of ghost gun parts and ensures that people who pose a threat to the community cannot use this loophole to access firearms,” McMorrow said as she mocked her oath of office.

And so it goes, the never-ending shoving match between those with deep respect for the values, traditions, and liberties America was founded upon and those who see them as an obstacle to the control and subjugation they desire over society. Republican Senator Joseph Bellino aptly pointed out, however, that if Democrats were serious about reducing crime and protecting communities, they would concern themselves with enforcing existing gun laws “rather than infringing on the rights of law-abiding citizens.”

This is why freedom-loving Americans have mostly given up thinking that the debate is between two sides with fundamentally different ideas about what’s best for the country, as we know that concept is diametrically opposed to the agenda of the left.

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