Here’s the Anti-Gun Rights Bills Democrats Passed (and those they could not)

Now that the Democ­rats’ Lame Duck Deba­cle is over, peo­ple are ask­ing which anti-gun rights bills they passed and which ones are now dead for the term.

With­out fur­ther ado:

Signed Into Law

Uni­ver­sal Gun Reg­is­tra­tion (“manda­to­ry back­ground checks”), HB 4138/4142/4143, signed in April 2023
Lock Up Your Safe­ty (“safe stor­age law”), HB 4139 & SB 79/80, signed in April 2023
Deprive Gun Rights With Due Process (“red flag law”), HB 4145–48 & SB 83, signed in April 2023
Deprive Gun Rights for Mis­de­meanor Domes­tic Vio­lence, HB 4945 & SB 471, signed in Novem­ber 2023
Ban Guns With­in 100ft of Bal­lot Drop Box, HB 4127/28, signed in Decem­ber 2024

Sent to Gov­er­nor

Man­date guns be destroyed in tax­pay­er-fund­ed gun buy-ups, HB 6144
Ban guns seized by law enforce­ment from being sold, HB 6145/46
Man­date DHHS Devel­op and Pro­vide Mate­ri­als About Safe Stor­age of Guns, HB 5450/5451

Every­thing Else: DEAD, includ­ing:

Ban sale of guns to all adults under age 21, HB 4203/04
Ban guns on all state prop­er­ty except for gov­ern­ment agents, HB 4149/50
Ban guns with­in quar­ter mile of gov­ern­ment build­ing or school, HB 4205/06
Allow local bans on open car­ry, HB 4198
Allow local gun bans, SB 208
Seize firearms from any­one sub­ject to a restrain­ing order, HB 6134/35
Crim­i­nal­ize access to firearms in vehi­cles, HB 6175/76
Allow mer­it­less law­suits against firearms com­pa­nies, HB 6181–85
Impose 14-day wait­ing peri­od for hand­guns, HB 4211
Civ­il lia­bil­i­ty for trans­fer­ring firearm to a pro­hib­it­ed per­son, HB 4243
Require CPL hold­ers inform fire­fight­ers and EMTs that they are car­ry­ing, HB 4358
Require home­made firearms have ser­i­al num­bers, HB 4455
Man­date gun parts have ser­i­al num­bers and crim­i­nal­ize “ghost guns” (SB 1149/50)
Make mis­de­meanor gun crimes into felonies, HB 6222/23
Pro­hib­it unac­com­pa­nied minors from hav­ing BB guns, HB 4184
Cre­ate “trig­ger lock dis­tri­b­u­tion fund,” HB 4214/15

As you can see, it’s been a ter­ri­ble two years for gun rights in Michi­gan, and Repub­li­cans will have their work cut out for us when we elect a Repub­li­can gov­er­nor, Sen­ate, and House in 2026.

And yet, if not for Dems col­laps­ing in the mid­dle of Lame Duck, it would have been even worse.