Michigan House tries again to legalize stun gun use
The Michigan House has voted a second time to legalize the possession and use of stun guns for people over the age of 18.
Lawmakers approved the bill 78-32 Wednesday. The legislation moves for possible approval to the Senate, where it stalled out in 2020.
The legislation, also passed by lawmakers last January, would lift part of the state s ban on the use of portable electric devices designed to incapacitate, injure or kill.
Current law allows some people, including law enforcement and those with concealed pistol licenses, to use a Taser, the brand name for a device that shoots two prongs up to 15 feet to disrupt the signal between the brain and muscle to incapacitate a person temporarily.
How riots, politics and a pandemic drove record gun sales in Michigan
Updated Feb 13, 2021;
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Three days after the Capitol insurrection, Marc Boyer spent his coronavirus stimulus check on a shotgun.
Boyer, a 56-year-old U.S. Navy veteran, felt dread as a frenzied mob that spent hours assaulting police and roaming the halls of Congress slinked back to their homes across the country. Boyer said the riots proved police can’t stop homegrown terrorists, so he ventured out to find a weapon to protect himself. The Jackson native encountered long lines and empty shelves at three firearms dealers in Southeast Michigan before buying a shotgun at a gun show in Adrian.