LANSING, Mich. — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed two gun safety bills into law Thursday, requiring universal background checks for all gun sales and the safe storage of firearms and ammunition in homes.
The legislation comes after a gunman opened fire at two locations on Michigan State University's main campus in East Lansing in February, shooting eight students, three fatally. After an hourslong manhunt, police found the suspect -- identified as 43-year-old Anthony McRae -- dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound off campus.
Prior Michigan law only required background checks for pistol purchases, but not long gun or shotgun purchases. Whitmer said the previous law"doesn't make any sense," adding that background checks also help law enforcement stay safe on the job and solve crimes more easily. Gun owners who enter other premises where a minor is located and leave their firearm unattended in a vehicle must store the firearm in a locked box or container in the vehicle, or keep the firearm unloaded and lock the firearm with a locking device that is properly engaged to render the firearm inoperable by any individual other than the owner or an authorized user, according to the legislation.
Ethan Crumbley, a student who fatally shot four classmates at Oxford High School, just outside Detroit, in November 2021, told a judge he had asked his father to buy him a gun -- which he later used in the shooting -- confirming that it was not stored safely in their home. Crumbley pleaded guilty to 24 charges in connection with the shooting. His parents have both pleaded not guilty to four counts of involuntary manslaughter for their alleged role in the shooting.
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