Michigan to offer free gun locks to help owners comply with new secure storage laws

Gun locks will soon be available free to the public at local health department offices in Michigan as part of a new program that is to be announced Friday by the Michigan State Police and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.

The locks are to be given out at MDHHS county offices and many local health departments statewide to help Michiganders comply with a new secure gun storage law that went into effect in February.

The law now requires all unattended firearms to be unloaded and locked with a locking device or stored in a locked box or safe if a child could have access to it. Anyone who fails to properly lock a gun that a child later uses to injure themselves or another person can be charged with a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison and/or a fine of up to $7,500.

If an unsecured gun is used by a child to kill another person or themselves, the owner can be charged with a felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison and/or a fine of up to $10,000.

Here is the text from the law:

I see a few problems here.

First, is the potential for abuse.

I can just imagine some ex-wife calling the cops to say her husband has an unsecured gun that their child has access to during visitation.

Second, how is it enforced.

Then there is the question of, what happens if the child defeats the lock?

Those cable locks can be defeated by a pair of wire cutters, not enough to stop a determined teenager.

If a teen breaks into your house and steals your gun, and it was locked but the teen cuts off the cable lock, does the adult still get in trouble?

Third, this is potentially unconstitutional under Heller.

This is from Scalia’s opinion.

Is a loaded gun, locked in a safe, or an unloaded gun with a lock considered inoperable?

It might be, and therefore might be unconstitutional.

You know that I totally believe in locking up your guns. But the state can’t mandate it, and there are too many problems with this law that could get innocent people into trouble.

I hope we never have a war between the American citizenry and the US Military.

I mean that sincerely.

The results would be horrific for both sides.

But there are some people, mostly on the Left, who think the US military would trounce the shit out of the citizenry because of their vastly superior technology and training.

That, I doubt.

The US Navy proved that today on their official Instagram page.

If the shit ever hit the fan, and the military was maneuvered against the American people, there is a not insignificant chance that personnel ordered to occupy our city streets will have their weapon optics mounted backwards and have no idea how to shoot their gun.

My wife introduced me to a British DJ, Akira the Don, who puts music to and remixes speeches and book texts from a wide range of academics, philosophers, writers.

He remixed a few Jordan Peterson talks and u found them quite enjoyable.

There is something known as the snowball effect.

Back in the day with Glocks, we had the infamous Glock-leg and Glock-kB.

But one story hits the news, people see it, people report their similar experiences, that becomes news, and the whole situation snowballs.

The SIG P320 and accidental discharges are the same thing.

One story makes two, which makes ten, which makes a public opinion bases on perception and not reality.

Let’s look at two recent examples:

I guarantee you that “extensive firearms experience as a gun owner” meant he carried a J-frame in his pocket for 30 years without a holster and it never went off.

He switched to a P320, did the sane careless handling, and shot himself.

Because he never shot himself with his J-frame, it must be the gun and not him being a jackass.

Example number two:

Officer’s gun that fired inside Massachusetts school is latest Sig Sauer incident

A veteran Cambridge, Mass. police officer’s gun discharged inside of a public school staff bathroom earlier this week, the latest instance of a Sig Sauer P320 pistol allegedly firing without an intentional trigger pull.

Cambridge Police confirmed this is the fourth time a P320 pistol unexpectedly discharged since the force adopted the gun as its duty weapon in 2018. The department said it is investigating the incident.

On Tuesday, Cambridge Officer Frank Greenidge was inside a staff bathroom at Rindge and Latin High School, when, according to a department spokesperson, he “removed his department issued firearm from its holster and it unintentionally discharged. There were no injuries and the school day continued uninterrupted.”

Another cop.

Officer Greenidge went to take a dump, drew his gun, and it went off.

Who wants to bet Officer Greenidge isn’t a gun guy, and butterfingered the trigger?

But he knows other cops have complained about their P320s so is blaming the gun instead of accepting that he’s an idiot and a reprimand.

That’s the way these stories go.

Buy a holster, don’t touch it, and ignore the media.

If you missed it (you probably did), Right-wing social media was buzzing about Michael Knowles interviewing Nala Ray.

"$9 Million on OnlyFans & God Saved Me" | Michael & Nala Ray pic.twitter.com/kPP2eCm12Y

— The Michael Knowles Show (@MKnowlesShow) April 6, 2024

The Christian Right on Twitter, by-and-large loves this girl and her testimony.

I’m have doubts.

I’m not a Christian.

We Jews do not believe in salvation. That is not a Jewish principle.

We believe in atonement. One must atone for their sins. Part of atonement is making right and reforming previous behavior.

So I watch this interview and this is my take-away.

This girl made $9 million doing hardcore pornography on OnlyFans and builds up a huge follower base.

She finds a man, falls in love, want to get married.

She finds Jesus, prays, and is saved.

She quits OnlyFans.

She transitions to making softcore content of her in scantily clad costumes and athletic clothing and calls it cosplay and fitness influencer content.

She starts making money with Christian influencer content.

She doesn’t give away her $9M from OnlyFans, she doesn’t reject her followers.

She doesn’t do good works, build church, fund missionaries, help Christian hospitals, etc.

She found Jesus and a sports bra and did substantially change her life.

Social media tells me I can’t judge her. Her sin has been washed away.

Didn’t Jesus save Mary Magdalene, who was a prostitute?

Yes, but I don’t remember in my Episcopalian high school days, learning that Mary went back to being a prostitute after becoming a follower of Jesus.

Nala Ray’s transformation looks like a grift to me.

She gave up hardcore for a husband and parlayed making money off incels to making money off Christians.

I remember from the history books when the Medieval Catholic Church would require people seeking forgiveness to fast for 40 days and take a vow of poverty.

At least make her buy a planetary indulgence for $9,000,001.

Make her demonstrate an act of contrition.

Thus just feels like a grift and I don’t understand why more people don’t see it that way.

I’ll admit, I don’t know salvation, but I do know atonement, and nothing I’ve seen her do looks like atonement.

I’m dying…

I wanted to do a deeper dive into the article embedded in the Tweet from the last post I made.

REVEALED: WiFi went down ALL DAY at LA cash storage facility as thieves stole $30m in daring heist

Neighbors of a cash storage facility robbed of $30 million claim internet signals went down and they heard an explosion during the daring heist.

The FBI and LAPD are still trying to piece together how burglars breached the roof of GardaWorld in Sylmar, Los Angeles, on Easter Sunday without triggering any alarms.

Issa Alhosry, 22, co-owner of the nearby Kwik Market Deli said their WiFi, phones, and servers were down for hours on Sunday morning and into the evening.

‘We couldn’t get or make calls, not even on my cell phone,’ Alhosry told DailyMail.com.

It does sound like the thrives used signal jammers to disable security measures or prevent people from calling the police if they saw something.

Cellphone jammer can be bought on Amazon, and they are becoming popular in robbery and home invasions.

I understand why wifi based security system are popular, they are much cheaper that hard wiring a home.

However, the technology to defeat them has also become cheaper and more prevalent.

If you are at all serious about security, a hardwired system tied to a landlines is much more secure.

Reactivating a home landline for emergencies might also be a good idea.

(I invite our resident security camera expert to do a follow-up post on this)