The Michigan Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, which includes community partners, state departments, medical experts, law enforcement professionals, tribal representatives and academic researchers, has released a new report today with recommendations designed to reduce gun violence.
Developed over the last year with input from a wide range of advocates, the report focuses on the importance of implementing proven strategies to save lives.
Report recommendations include:
• Waiting periods and background checks
• Require waiting periods for all firearm purchases.?
• Increase the eligible age of firearm purchase to 21.
• Close the concealed pistol license loophole that allows an individual to purchase a firearm without a background check or permit.
• Ban ghost guns
• Strengthen existing school safety legislation.
• Standardize training for school resource officers and promote a single school safety tip line statewide.
• Support Community Violence Intervention efforts.
• Stronger safe storage policies
• Educate the public on secure firearm storage and expand access to free locking devices.
• Policies to strengthen red flag laws and domestic violence protections
• Create clear guidelines for firearm relinquishment.
• Remove barriers for filing Extreme Risk Protection Orders and Personal Protection Orders and improve enforcement of orders. This will increase the ability for these life-saving tools to be implemented successfully in our communities.
• Strengthen victim support services to address the harm of domestic violence.
• Prohibit the possession of large capacity magazines.
• Prohibit the sale, possession, manufacture or transfer of assault weapons.
• Ban automatic conversion devices or “Glock switches,” devices that convert semiautomatic firearms into fully automatic guns.
The Gun Violence Prevention Task Force also recommends the creation of a Firearm Safety Policy Implementation Team to guide the rollout of policy and programmatic proposals outlined above.
The Michigan Gun Violence Prevention Task Force was created under Executive Order 2024-4, signed by Governor Whitmer to improve implementation of existing laws, maximize resources and strengthen coordination across sectors to reduce gun violence and save lives.
Housed within the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, task force membership reflects a wide range of expertise and lived experience. The University of Michigan Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention provided research and programmatic?support for task force work.
Developed over the last year with input from a wide range of advocates, the report focuses on the importance of implementing proven strategies to save lives.
Report recommendations include:
• Waiting periods and background checks
• Require waiting periods for all firearm purchases.?
• Increase the eligible age of firearm purchase to 21.
• Close the concealed pistol license loophole that allows an individual to purchase a firearm without a background check or permit.
• Ban ghost guns
• Strengthen existing school safety legislation.
• Standardize training for school resource officers and promote a single school safety tip line statewide.
• Support Community Violence Intervention efforts.
• Stronger safe storage policies
• Educate the public on secure firearm storage and expand access to free locking devices.
• Policies to strengthen red flag laws and domestic violence protections
• Create clear guidelines for firearm relinquishment.
• Remove barriers for filing Extreme Risk Protection Orders and Personal Protection Orders and improve enforcement of orders. This will increase the ability for these life-saving tools to be implemented successfully in our communities.
• Strengthen victim support services to address the harm of domestic violence.
• Prohibit the possession of large capacity magazines.
• Prohibit the sale, possession, manufacture or transfer of assault weapons.
• Ban automatic conversion devices or “Glock switches,” devices that convert semiautomatic firearms into fully automatic guns.
The Gun Violence Prevention Task Force also recommends the creation of a Firearm Safety Policy Implementation Team to guide the rollout of policy and programmatic proposals outlined above.
The Michigan Gun Violence Prevention Task Force was created under Executive Order 2024-4, signed by Governor Whitmer to improve implementation of existing laws, maximize resources and strengthen coordination across sectors to reduce gun violence and save lives.
Housed within the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, task force membership reflects a wide range of expertise and lived experience. The University of Michigan Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention provided research and programmatic?support for task force work.
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