gun safety

The Michigan Senate has sent a batch of gun safety bills to Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s desk. The governor has said she intends to sign the legislation.

The Michigan House voted Wednesday to require safe gun storage and suspend sales-and-use taxes on safety devices.

Bills for universal gun background checks, safe storage, and extreme risk protection orders made it out of a state Senate committee Thursday.

The state House has approved gun safety bills that include requiring universal background checks for gun sales. The bills cleared the House Wednesday night on party-line votes.

The It’s Just Politics political roundtable discusses the week in Michigan politics as lawmakers hold hearings on new gun safety bills and Senators vote to add LGBTQ protections to the state’s civil rights act.

Gun safety bills have started working their way through the Michigan Legislature.

The It’s Just Politics political roundtable discusses where Michigan lawmakers stand on new gun safety bills and how an election-denier is now running the Michigan Republican Party.

On today's show, we spoke about gun-related police encounters and heard about a recent school lockdown. Plus, a novelist discussed her book and we heard about Isle Royale updates.

Today, we heard an interview with two state representatives who discussed their bipartisan bill that would incentivize safe firearm storage in homes. After that, we listened to an interview with a Detroit artist.

An effort Wednesday in the Michigan Senate force a vote on gun safety bills failed. On a party-line vote, Republicans returned the measures to a committee where they’ve sat for 11 months.