MI: In 'history-making' votes, Democratic-led Senate passes gun reform legislation
A little more than one month after a mass shooting killed three students at Michigan State University, the Democratic-led Senate on Thursday passed an 11-bill package that aims to curb and prevent the gun violence that has traumatized children, parents and communities across the state.
Garnering uniform support among Democrats and largely condemnation from Republicans, Senate Bills 76–86 would mandate universal background checks for all firearm purchases in Michigan, require that gun owners safely store firearms that could be accessed by minors, and permit a court to order the temporary removal of guns from someone who may be a danger to themselves or others.
Sen. Rosemary Bayer (D-Beverly Hills), who chairs the Firearm Safety and Violence Prevention Caucus and vehemently fought for gun reform following the November 2021 mass shooting that killed four students at Oxford High School, called the bills “some of the most important legislation that we will ever have a chance to vote on.
“After years of talking about this, years of calling attention to the escalating gun violence in our state, after years of statewide polling of Republicans and Democrats, gun owners and non-gun owners telling us that they strongly favor gun safety legislation, after years of constituents calling and demanding that we do something about this, after years of things just getting worse, we are finally taking action to begin the process of making our state safer — making our kids, our families, all the people of Michigan safer,” Bayer said.
https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/history-making-votes-democratic-led-senate-passes-gun-reform-legislation
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Our votes are being listened to for once in MI.
