Guns

Following Monday night’s mass shooting at Michigan State University, state Democrats say they’re “prepared to get the job done” and pass common sense gun laws.

MSU Police and Public Safety reported shots were fired near Berkey Hall on campus Monday night.

A Grand Rapids man trafficking weapons will spend time in federal prison.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer will call for new gun control laws when she delivers her State of the State address this week.

Hailey Huggett said she felt like she’s living through a paradox.“Here I am, missing school today,” she said, “to fight for the right to go to school without being killed.”

Gun reform has been a hot topic in Michigan and across the nation for years, but without a lot of change. MichMash host Cheyna Roth is joined by Stella Yu of Bridge Michigan to talk about how this issue will get different treatment next year.

The Michigan Supreme Court has returned a challenge to the University of Michigan’s on-campus gun restrictions to a lower court.The unsigned court order instructs the Michigan Court of Appeals to consider whether the U-of-M policy violates a US Supreme Court decision. The US Supreme Court, in a case from New York, struck down many gun restrictions.

Michigan Senator Gary Peters told WCMU he's confident that gun reform legislation will pass the final roll call vote with the necessary Republican support.

Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow was originally going to speak about the legislation for school lunches as chairwoman of the Senate committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry. Instead, she gave an emotional speech about the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas that killed 21 people and gun reform that could pass in the Senate if at least ten Republicans were to cross the isle.

Michigan House lawmakers today passed bills limiting the governor’s emergency powers.