According to Firearm Chronicles
Just because you have a right to do something, it doesn’t mean it’s smart to do it. That includes taking guns into a state capitol to protest something that has nothing to do with firearms.
However, nothing in that justifies a bill before the state senate seeking to ban the practice of openly carrying a firearm in the capitol.
A pair of state Senate bills introduced Tuesday call for banning guns from Michigan’s Capitol.
The bills, introduced during a months-long fight over the building’s weapons policy, would prohibit open and concealed carry of firearms inside the building. Michigan State Police officers and Capitol security would be exempt. Firearms still would be allowed on the Capitol lawn.
“The only reason most people bring firearms into the Capitol is to intimidate and that is not how the state’s Capitol — the people’s house — is designed to work, nor should it continue to be permissible,” Sen. Rosemary Bayer, D-Beverly Hills, said in a release.
Bayer and Sen. Dayna Polehanki, D-Livonia, sponsored the legislation.
This follows a bill from earlier this month that would dissolve the appointed commission that’s in charge of establishing firearm policy for the capitol.