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 in April, when armed protesters stormed the Capitol in response to the governor’s strict lockdown measures during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Michigan Capitol Commission, the body that has the authority to ban guns in the building, decided in a September vote to not implement a ban.
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 arose in April after an armed mob stormed the building in response to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s strict lockdown measures in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Calls to ban weapons at Michigan s Capitol continued after the alleged plot to kidnap Whitmer and other elected officials. The ban comes most recently after an assault by rioters at the country’s Capitol in Washington D.C.
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 an April 30 protest, dozens of people some of whom were armed went inside the Capitol, demanded entry to the House floor and stood with firearms in the Senate gallery above lawmakers while they were in session.