gun rightsJeff Soyer on 14 Dec 2012 04:55 am
The Michigan Legislature has enacted a bill allowing people who undergo extra training to carry concealed weapons in places such as schools and churches where they previously were off-limits.
The bill now awaits Gov. Rick Snyder’s signature. The extra training includes more range time.
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on 14 Dec 2012 at 6:08 am # comatus
Marveling for a moment at why Michigan news would be coming from Seattle (like US news coming from the Tory-graph in the UK), I looked up the story on a local Michigan news site. The comments, oh my gracious, sound like the crowd at the AFP tent in Lansing.
Vinum in peninsulam amoenam potest. The state motto: Alcohol may have been a factor. My mother, rest her soul, was born in Michigan. She was strikingly beautiful, part Ottawa, and crazy as a Gun Swamp loon. To her credit, she never drank much. That’s why she had to leave.
So, you’ll be able to carry in a public school, but not the state universities. The major beef comes from a Catholic council which finds it “unseemly” that their churches will have to post a no-carry notice when it ought to be just understood. Big talk, says I, from the bishopric that deemed the muskrat a fish. Gabriel Possenti of blessed memory begs to differ — and not about the muskrat.
Good news for CC instructors, since there are now two classes of license, and two classes to take and pay for. Bad news for those with party-line Dem sheriffs. This is clearly within a governor’s power to set up posse and militia. I might have gone for a loyalty pledge, just to rile things up. And a badge. Monroe, 1937.
on 14 Dec 2012 at 11:31 am # boyd
My wife works in a public elementary, they’re sitting ducks and all the ducks believe they’re immune to anything bad. They have all these procedures and drills and … years ago they ran a lockdown drill and chalked “codes” on the doors of rooms that had been checked. The code for a room that had been checked? “Clear” chalked on the door. How did I find out the super secret code? They stayed up on some (many) of the doors until the school was torn down about 2 years ago. We trust them with the education of our children, but a lifepreserver? Don’t even mention the idea.
on 14 Dec 2012 at 1:29 pm # Sigivald
I sort of understand the school part of that.
But what’s supposed to be special about a church, as opposed to any other piece of private property?
on 14 Dec 2012 at 4:14 pm # James Nelson
The Governor isn’t sure he’ll sign the bills that passed the legislature, I made my phone call. Not sure I understand comatus’s response. The sheriff has no power to deny concealed pistol licenses in Michigan, so no matter what party they are it doesn’t matter. The one bill is a sadly weakened version of a bill that would have ended Michigan’s pistol registration law.
on 14 Dec 2012 at 11:05 pm # comatus
J. Nelson, the county licensing boards are eliminated, and their function passed to the sheriff. In my state, it’s been that department all along, and some counties are notoriously slower, more difficult to deal with, and more likely to nit-pick applications than others. And that categorization is pretty much along political lines. So that was the thinking behind that part of my response.
on 15 Dec 2012 at 5:03 pm # James Nelson
In Michigan the permits have been issued through the county governments all along. The various gun boards were just maintained because of past practice dating back to before the shall issue law went into effect. They had no authority to deny or delay a permit unless the applicant could be denied for cause. While some counties have been noticeably slower than others, the law sets a time limit on how long they have to act, so they can delay only so long.