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The Michigan Capitol Commission won’t immediately ban guns at the building despite the potential for more armed demonstrators this week at another planned protest over Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s coronavirus stay-at-home order. Instead, the body appointed a study committee.
Recent Whitmer kidnapping plot renews calls to ban firearms in Michigan Capitol Lansing Capitol building on Sept. 19, 2019. — Photo by Connor Desilets | The State News Calls to ban weapons in the Michigan Capitol building were renewed following the alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and other elected officials. The drive to ban firearms in the building was incited back ...
Unanimous vote bans open carry at Michigan Capitol, FBI warns of armed protests across the country Lansing Capitol building shot from Townsend Street. Photographed on Oct. 1, 2020. — Photo by Lauren DeMay | The State News The Michigan Capitol Commission unanimously voted Monday to ban open carry guns at Michigan's Capitol. Debates around banning firearms at Michigan's Capitol first...
by Alan Stamm A partial gun-safety step for the state Capitol is adopted five days after a rampage at the U.S. Capitol stunned the world. "The Michigan State Capitol Commission voted unanimously Monday to ban the open carry of firearms at the state Capitol ... ahead of anticipated protests next week," The Detroit News reports from Lansing. The vote comes after years of consideration of a potential ban on gun possession in the Michigan Capitol, a debate that ratcheted up last spring during armed protests of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's stay-home order. During a...
Commission votes unanimously to ban open carry inside Michigan Capitol Carol Thompson, Lansing State Journal © Matthew Dae Smith/Lansing State Journal Armed ralliers protest in the rotunda inside the Michigan Capitol on Thursday. April 30, 2020. [MATTHEW DAE SMITH/USA Today Network] LANSING — Michigan State Capitol Commissioners voted unanimously to ban open carry inside public spaces in the Capitol building two days before the Michigan legislature is scheduled to meet for the first time this year. The ban, effective immediately, will not apply to Michigan State Polic...