Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed told a Midland town hall that an originalist view of the Constitution limits the Second Amendment to muskets of the founding period, so equal access should apply to those arms. The Michigan-born Rhodes Scholar, who holds degrees from the University of Michigan and Oxford, is seeking a U.S. Senate seat and said he would take an oath to the Constitution.

Everytown Law litigation director Janet Carter, speaking to The Center Square, argued that detachable magazines plus pistol and forward grips let shooters reload and re-aim rapidly, features she tied to military design and recent high-casualty mass shootings rather than hunting or self-defense. Surplus military rifles such as the M1 Carbine were sold to civilians for decades, and a Third Circuit en banc panel recently invalidated New Jersey restrictions on certain rifles and magazines.