Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed recently said the constitutional arms right applies to 18th-century muskets rather than later guns. The high court in 2008 rejected confining that protection to founding-era weapons. In 2023 he floated swapping the arms clause for a healthcare guarantee and, during the current race, did not plainly retract the idea. Industry and legal commentators flagged the comments. Repeating designs already existed before ratification, and later precedent requires gun rules to fit the country’s historical regulation pattern.