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.
Just for that I not going to purchase a moronic made in Michigan Obama Edison. Not really, you couldn’t GIVE me a homeigniter battery car POS.
I’ve never seen a ghost packing a gun. I can’t imagine why a ghost would need a gun in any event. 😉
To defend against OTHER ghosts with their own guns! You know, the bad ghosts!
Ads for 80% that used words like Untraceable did not help the image. Unfortunately the Ghost Gun label works on fools who are too stupid to factor in siding with Gun Control an agenda History Confirms is Rooted in Racism and Genocide is worse by a million miles…To side with Gun Control the MI senate might as well hung a noose and swastika on the capitol door…Circles back to zipped lipped Gun owning slackers who failed to Define Gun Control by its History for a Gun Control History illiterate America.
If I tell people that Gun Control is an agenda History Confirms is Rooted in Racism and Genocide, they will tell me No Shit! If I ask them to give a donation to the GOA, FPC, SAF, RMGO, and NAGR when they can afford it so that lawyers can litigate for us, they say that’s a good idea! I’m not a zip lipped slacker, I try to put money where it will do the most good. Like it or not lawyers are going to be the ones that sort this crap out. Emailing my Senators is like petitioning Everytown for Gun Safety, after all I am in Colorado, just like speaking to my Governor.
Have these ass clowns not heard of black pipe, an end cap, and a screw
Which letter best describes the reasons for serial number
A.
Serial numbers help if your guns are stolen.
B.
Serial numbers help if your firearm has a recall.
C.
Serial numbers help if your building a registry.
D.
All of the above but only C counts.
C. Why? Because Michigan has and is building a registry that is totally not a registry for legal arguments but acts as one in the real world with it’s license to purchase law that SAF, GPC, GOA, NAGR, and NRA never seem to find the time to challenge with all of their begging for cash.
Has there EVER been a case where a firearm’s serial number was instrumental in solving a crime?
I’m sure serial numbers were used to track down all the guns the ATF helped smuggle to the cartels back in the 2010s.
Yes, sort of. It was instrumental in solving where the gun came from. It did not identify the killer. The gun originated from a program called “Fast and Furious”. Officer Brian Terry was a victim of this program. He was murdered and nobody including the defacto murderer Eric Holder was ever held accountable. Holder cried to Obama and Obama shielded his “Wingman” from being held accountable, making Obama an accomplice to murder.
Southern Cross,
I am almost certain that serialized firearms were instrumental in solving a few crimes.
That is nevertheless irrelevant.
Look at it this way. Of course it would be instrumental in solving rape cases if every male is required to provide a DNA sample. And yet that would violate every male’s right to privacy. Hence we cannot require all males to submit DNA samples. Similarly, requiring citizens to serialize and register their privately manufactured firearms violates their right to privacy and is therefore a no-go.
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parker? i hardly know her!
Kids S.A.F.E. Celebrates Monumental Achievement.
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MASSIVE UPDATE: ATF Set To Lose $200 MILLION & Veteran Disarmament Defeat About To Be OFFICIAL!!!
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BREAKING NEWS: DEADBEAT DOJ TRYING TO STIFF WINNING 2A PLAINTIFFS.
Gun Owners of America has filed a motion for attorneys fees in the bump stock case and DOJ is seeking to deny them payment. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner discusses.
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Based on what I am reading from your comment, it sounds like the courts should hold appropriate members of the Department of Justice in contempt of court and jail them until they comply with their requirement to reimburse Gun Owners of America for their legal expenses.
woohoo!!!
Glad to know that it will stop the criminals from getting one…..
…wait…
Maybe the criminal did the crime!
I was just wondering how it would mess with Michigan Senators’ minds, if somebody there made a gun with a built-in “slot machine” type mechanism, where every time it was fired, it would change its own serial number.
“Ghost Gun” is just today’s media made up buzz phrase. In the 60’s it was “Saturday Night Specials” the late 80’s it was “Assault Weapons”. Tomorrow it will be “Precision Hi-powered Sniper Rifles”. Anti-gunners are against ALL guns.
The issue really is about one consideration. Keeping guns out of the hands of those legally not allowed to have them. If that can be solved, then “ghost guns” should be legal for everyone else. Yeah we can argue with about rights and history and registries all we want, but that doesn’t get us any further in solving the problem of guns ending up in the hands of those forbidden to own them. So arguing those points is useless. Coming up with solutions that allow the government to limit the “ghost guns” getting in the hands of those not legally allowed should be the focus. Perhaps 80% receivers get shipped to the FFL and then released to individuals with drivers licenses . Those unable to procure them would have to have modified drivers licenses to show they can’t purchase them. Of course it doesn’t stop straw buyers, but perhaps straw buyers caught get life in prison to deter others. Owning a firearm comes with responsibility.
80% receivers aren’t regulated as firearms because they’re *not* firearms according to the ATF’s own definition. They had to draw a line somewhere between a finished receiver (firearm) and a solid billet of steel or aluminum (not-a-firearm). 80% is also not a legally defined percentage of readiness-to-assemble it’s just a shorthand way people refer to them. The actual criteria are considerably more complex. Re-defining 80% receivers as firearms subject to transfer by an FFL would require changing their definition of firearm. The current definition was an attempt to make it more difficult to build a functioning firearm, there’s no limiting principle to stop them from continuing to define “firearm” downward until a block of steel is legally defined as a firearm. That’s a long way of saying your proposal won’t achieve their goal. Also, harsh penalties for straw purchase of an 80% receiver won’t accomplish anything either – it doesn’t deter people from buying finished firearms. Why risk the same penalty for buying an 80% receiver you have to finish yourself when you can just buy a complete functioning gun?
Can we just ban the Michigan senate?
Maybe for LWD? Legislating While Drunk.
On the radio this week (Sirius XM Radio “POTUS Channel”), the host was interviewing the head of the Brady Campaign, who claimed that “Ghost gun kits” let anyone build a gun “in less than one minute.”
Less than one minute?!? Ridiculous!
The host did absolutely no fact-checking or pushback on that absurd claim, because he’s as ignorant about guns as he is anti-gun.
The House failed to muster a quorum, no votes could happen … bill died!!! Thanks to a sole democrat (Karen Whitsett) for breaking with her party. She didn’t care about these bills, but saved us from them none the less.
The Michigan democrats even tried to force her to the flooring using capital security (Call of the house) and locking her in … thankfully it did not work.
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