Michigan Legislature Creates Tip Line for Students to Turn in Parents for "Improperly Stored Guns"

Michigan Legislature Creates Tip Line for Students to Turn in Parents for
"Improperly Stored Guns"

Democrats and Republicans in the Michigan House of Representatives passed a
bipartisan amendment to the state's K-12 budget containing a provision that
encourages students to report on their parents for "improperly" stored firearms,
the Detroit Free Press reported.

School leaders around the state were skeptical of the fiscal year 2025 school
budget that the state legislature passed and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed in
July, and so the Democrats rammed through HB 5503, a budget amendment to the
2025 budget, with the help of some Republicans.

Addressing those demands for more money, lawmakers moved to sweeten the deal for
public schools by adding $126 million, $125 million of which is allocated to
mental health programs, which are often ways in which public schools promote the
LGBT agenda, and school safety programs.

The final $1 million in the bill-ostensibly a part of the school safety aspect
of the bill-will create a "tip line" number which children could call in order
to anonymously tell on their parents for engaging in alleged improper firearm
storage practices.

  Here is the House Fiscal Agency summary of the school aid supplemental that is
expected to come up for a vote today:

  $125M for mental health

  $1M for tip line for students to report improperly stored firearms
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  - Simon D. Schuster (@Simon_Schuster) September 25, 2024

"This amendment was inserted into the conference committee report of the
Michigan School Aid bill (HB 5503 CR-1) today,' the Michigan Coalition for
Responsible Gun Owners tweeted. "The conference committee report is expected to
be voted on immediately in the House and Senate with no testimony allowed."

  Report Your Parents Hotline

  This amendment was inserted into the conference committee report of the
Michigan School Aid bill (HB 5503 CR-1) today. The conference committee report
is expected to be voted on immediately in the House and Senate with no testimony
allowed.

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  - Michigan Coalition for Responsible Gun Owners (@MCRGO_Michigan) September
25, 2024

The tweet continued: "This amendment would allow ISDs to establish a tip hotline
for students to anonymously report parents who improperly store a firearm. While
we all support responsible firearms storage, this is the type of thing we'd
expect to see from a totalitarian police state."

Despite the alleged safety provision, the bill passed Tuesday in the state House
by a 98-11 margin, and the Senate by a 23-15 margin.

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