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i'm glad one of the things MI is pretty good on is their gun laws. MI recognizes that your vehicle is your personal property, and that you may have you gun in your vehicle anywhere. including schools, courts, police stations, and everywhere else.

"i'm glad one of the things MI is pretty good on is their gun laws. MI recognizes that your vehicle is your personal property, and that you may have you gun in your vehicle anywhere. including schools, courts, police stations, and everywhere else."

I wish it was that way where I live. I'm a public defender and I just got a felony firearms case where a young man had a firearm on school property. He had an M1 Garand his grandfather had given him. He had just taken it by a gunsmith to get an estimate on some refinishing work he wanted done. Later that day, with the rifle still in the backseat of his vehicle, he went to the high school to pick up his nephew. A passerby noticed the rifle in his backseat when he was parked out in front of the school, and called the law. He was arrested even though there were no clips or bullets in the truck and even though he never took the rifle out from where it was laying in his backseat. Technically, he's guilty of a felony. Hopefully the prosecutor will have a heart and not stick to his guns on a felony, but no doubt he'll still want this guy to plead to some misdemeanor "possession of an instrument of crime" charge and pay a big fine. Shoot, when I was in high school some kids had had guns on gun racks in the back windows of their pickup trucks. Things sure have changed.

i'm glad one of the things MI is pretty good on is their gun laws. MI recognizes that your vehicle is your personal property, and that you may have you gun in your vehicle anywhere.

Not exactly...you REALLY require a concealed carry permit to do that:

"It is unlawful to carry a handgun concealed on or about one`s person or concealed or openly in a vehicle without a license to carry a concealed pistol.

If you don't, they're pretty specific on how and where they should be in your vehicle:

In order to transport or possess rifles and shotguns in a motor vehicle, Michigan law requires that they be unloaded and broken down or enclosed in a case, carried in the trunk of the vehicle, or inaccessible from the interior of the vehicle."