Anti-gun Va. lawmaker who brandished borrowed AK-47 in legislature once ‘lost’ 2 semiautomatic weapons police loaned him

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Conservative Byte

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Virginia Delegate Joseph Morrissey, who became infamous online last week when he brandished an AK-47 during his anti-gun speech before the state legislature, once told a judge he “lost or misplaced” two semiautomatic assault-style weapons, including two that he borrowed from a state police forensic lab.

“I don’t think you should be able to possess an assault rifle,” Morrissey told ABC News on Friday.

But the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported in April 1994 that the arrest of a heroin dealer led police to discover an Uzi submachine gun that was supposed to be under Morrissey’s control.

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