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Robert McColley: “The government has no right to monitor whether you have…”

Featuring: Robert McColley, Republican | Ohio State Senate, District 1

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Published | Video Starts at 29:18

And for years we've been fighting against a firearms registry across the country really to say that, look, you have a second Amendment right. The government has no right to monitor your First Amendment protected speech. The government has no right to monitor whether you have firearms in your home for self-defense or otherwise. And so there's been a move nationally to try and use these codes that are put into our credit card systems as a backdoor to find out who's purchasing firearms and ammunition. (29:18–29:25)

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Asserts that the government should not monitor firearm ownership in homes.

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