Today, March 2, at noon in room 1100 of the Binsfield Office Building, the Senate Civil Rights, Judiciary, and Public Safety Committee will holding a public hearing two packages of gun control bills of serious concern to sportsmen. Each package of bills are tie-barred together, which is a process used in Michigan where each bill must be signed into law for the package to take effect.
Senate Bills 76, 77, and 78 expand Michigan’s handgun permit-to-purchase system to all firearms. Gun control advocates argue that requiring a permit-to-purchase on all firearms will help reduce crimes with firearms. The truth is criminals do not legally purchase a firearm so how is this legislation supposed to reduce firearm crimes? It won’t. This legislation only adds red tape and paperwork for law-abiding sportsmen and gun owners to contend with.
Senate Bills 79 and 80 impose mandatory storage requirements on firearm owners who reasonably should have known that a firearm is accessible to a minor. If a minor obtains the firearm and inflicts harm with the firearm, and the firearm owner should have known the minor was likely to cause harm, then the firearm owner could face prison time up to 15 years and fines up to $7,500. Michigan already has laws on the books where individuals who recklessly endanger the life of a child can be brought up on charges, so these bills are meant to discriminate against firearm owners rather than solve a legitimate public safety problem.
Please use our take action button to email the members of the committee urging them to OPPOSE Senate Bills 76, 77, and 78 and Senate Bills 79 and 80.
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