LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – After the shooting on the Michigan State University campus, Democrats ramped up their plans to push gun control legislation forward. The bills being discussed and introduced by Democrat Senators include red flag laws, safe storage laws and universal background checks for private gun sales which would amount to a registration list.

According to the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News, there are a few Republicans on board with some of these measures. They include State Senator Ruth Johnson (R-Groveland) would vote yes on universal gun registration and mandatory storage laws; Senator Joe Bellino (R-Monroe) who said he supports mandatory storage laws and is a “maybe” on the red flag law; and Mark Huizenga (R-Walker) who supports universal background checks and is a “maybe” on the other two laws.

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Johnson said, “There’s no reason why we don’t move forward on things that we can agree on and with swiftness…” She added, “I don’t see anything we can do to just stop it (gun violence). We just have to keep doing things that will curtail it. I am an advocate of the Second Amendment, but there’s many things we can do.”

An EPIC-MRA poll that was done last summer showed Michigan voters supportive of requiring background checks for all gun sales (90%) as well as measures for storing guns safely (82%). They also supported allowing people to petition the courts to (temporarily) take away guns from those who posed a risk to themselves and others (80% supported preventing sales of all firearms to people who have been reported to law enforcement as dangerous to themselves and others and 73% supported establishing a court-issued protection order called an ‘extreme risk protection order’).

A survey of 600 people was conducted for almost a week in August of 2022 and included 70% of cell phone-only respondents. 43% of those in the survey said current Michigan laws regarding the purchase and ownership of guns were not strict enough, 42% said they were about right and 7% said they were too strict. When asked if it is more important to protect the rights of people to own firearms or to address gun violence, 49% said addressing gun violence was more important, with 41% saying it is more important to protect the rights of people to own firearms.

79% supported a waiting period of at least three days to purchase a gun and 67% supported requiring a person to be 21-years-of-age (instead of 18) to be able to purchase a firearm.

On Monday, the group “Great Lakes Gun Rights” promised to work on recalling anti-gun politicians. Brenden Boudreau, Executive Director for Great Lakes Gun Rights said in a statement, “Michigan Democrats are charging ahead with anti-gun proposals that would make California blush…We urge Michigan Democrats to drop their politically motivated gun control push and for Republicans to oppose all these bills. If they do not relent, we’re preparing to work with local activists and voters in districts across the state to recall any lawmaker who votes for these gun control bills.”

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Is the passing of these three laws going to be enough for Michigan politicians? Maybe not. State Rep. Kelly Breen (D-Novi) told the Free Press, “I highly doubt we’re going to stop there.”