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No purchase license is required to purchase a long gun, or muzzle loader (a firearm that is more than 26 inches long) in Michigan. According to state law, a long gun may be purchased by anyone aged 18 or over who is not subject to restrictions based on criminal history, mental health history, or other disqualifying factor.
Operation Safe Neighborhoods, a state program funded with COVID cash has so far netted 205 illegal guns out of Michigan neighborhoods, with more expected.
In 2019, 43,686 crimes were reported in the U.S. state of Michigan. Crime statistics vary widely by location. Crime statistics vary widely by location. For example, Dearborn has a murder rate of only 2.1 per 100,000 while sharing borders with Detroit (43.5 per 100,000) and Inkster (24.2 per 100,000), some of the highest rates in the state.
Gun laws in the United States regulate the sale, possession, and use of firearms and ammunition.State laws (and the laws of the District of Columbia and of the U.S. territories) vary considerably, and are independent of existing federal firearms laws, although they are sometimes broader or more limited in scope than the federal laws.
When Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed into law gun safety measures following the shooting at Michigan State University last year, many gun safety advocates applauded the passage of proposals that ...
Michigan gun laws: Gun safety advocates want to see more measures to curb violence in Michigan Education changes Michigan's public schools will no longer be ranked using an A-F letter system to ...
Learn about the problem of gun violence in America through these graphs and charts. The post Gun Violence Statistics in the United States: 12 Charts You Need to See appeared first on Reader's Digest.
A 2016 survey of federal and state prison inmates by the Bureau of Justice Statistics found that among prisoners who possessed a gun during their offense, 10.1% obtained the gun through a retail source (7.5% gun shop/store, 1.6% pawn shop, 0.8% gun show, and 0.4% from a flea market); 25.3% obtained the gun from an individual (family member ...