LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — On the same day that Michigan State University observes one year since the deadly mass shooting on campus, the state’s latest gun violence prevention policies will go into effect.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed the new laws on the MSU campus in April 2023.
The new safe storage laws for firearms take effect Tuesday, Feb. 13 . The laws require gun owners to keep their weapon unloaded and locked with a locking device or locked box, if they know a minor is likely to be around.
The following will also go into effect Feb. 13:
- Lower costs of gun safety devices
- Universal background check
- Red flag guns laws
- Domestic violence: Those who have been convicted of domestic violence won’t be allowed to buy or own guns for eight years.
The new policies also come into effect a week after a jury found Jennifer Crumbley , the mother of the Oxford high school shooter, guilty on all four counts of involuntary manslaughter.
Crumbley and her husband, James, are charged, along with other points of negligence, with giving their son the gun that he used to kill four students at his school.