What is at stake in Hemani is not whether the government may criminalize mixing guns and drugs.
Rather, the law under which it indicted him prohibits a person from possessing firearms at all times because he sometimes uses drugs.
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Michigan has recently passed laws aimed at reducing gun violence, specifically related to extreme risk protection orders, the safe and secure storage act, universal background checks, and prohibition on gun ownership or possession for eight years for people convicted of domestic violence offenses.
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The Michigan Court of Appeals has rejected a constitutional challenge to the state’s concealed weapons law. The opinion was made public Friday.
A defendant was charged with carrying a concealed weapon without a permit as a passenger in a vehicle. Her lawyer argued that Michigan’s concealed weapons law is not consistent with the nation’s historical traditions of gun regulation at the time the Bill of Rights was adopted.
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Michigan to offer free gun locks to help owners comply with new secure storage laws
The program, announced Friday by the Michigan State Police and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, includes 75,000 cable-style gun locks that are now available at county MDHHS offices and some local health departments. All MDHHS offices should have gun locks available no later than June.
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Under the new law, police officers, family members and mental health professionals can go to a circuit court judge and ask for an extreme risk protection order (ERPO). A judge can then order police to temporarily take away someone’s guns if the petitioner shows specific examples of why the person is a threat. That can include prior acts or threats of violence, a serious history of mental illness or recent drug or alcohol abuse.
It’s aimed to keep guns out of the hands of people deemed to be dangerous
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