Parents charged last year under Michigan’s new firearms safe storage law were sentenced this week in separate cases in metro Detroit — one case in Macomb County, the other in Oakland County.
Theo Nichols, of Warren, the first person in Macomb County charged under the new law, was sentenced to probation, according to online county circuit court records. He pleaded guilty in February after his young son accidentally shot himself in the face with his father’s unlocked and loaded gun last year.
Nichols pleaded guilty to a felony firearms safe storage violation and an added count of fourth-degree child abuse, a misdemeanor. Four other charges, including second-degree child abuse, were dismissed by prosecutors at sentencing Tuesday, according to court records…