What are sometimes called child-access prevention laws are certainly on everyone’s mind as we consider the story of a troubled fifteen year old’s access to a semi-automatic weapon in a Michigan school. We can look here for an overview of the patchwork of approaches and limitations and observe that Michigan has no laws in this area. Statutory resolve in these areas is no panacea, however, as Karen Bleier has written on how what law enforcement and prosecutors do with the statute matters more than the mere verbiage: very little.
Let’s sit with that for a minute.
Missouri State of Mind 