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Retired and off-duty Department of Corrections’ (DOC) officers would be added to the list of those allowed to carry a gun in gun free zones, under a bill awaiting a hearing in a state House committee.
Currently in Michigan, you can’t carry a pistol into a school, hospital or sports stadium because they are no-carry zones.
Senator Rick Jones is sponsoring a bill to add retired and off-duty DOC officers and others to the list of individuals who are exempt from gun free zone laws.
He says the change is necessary so corrections officers can protect themselves.
Jones says a female corrections officer in his district was recently stalked by a prison inmate who had gotten out of prison and planned to kill her.
He says they were lucky in that case.
The legislation was passed in the Senate.
