[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 86 (Monday, May 22, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H2486]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             RED FLAG LAWS

  (Ms. STEVENS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. STEVENS. Mr. Speaker, I rise because earlier today in Royal Oak, 
Michigan, our Governor, Governor Gretchen Whitmer, alongside our 
Attorney General, Dana Nessel, Lieutenant Governor Gilchrist, our State 
house judiciary chair Kelly Breen, and a former Member of Congress, 
Gabby Giffords, stood today as the Governor signed into law a suite of 
bills that would allow families, healthcare providers, law enforcement, 
and other stakeholders to petition courts to remove guns from those 
judged to be an imminent threat to themselves or others.
  Michigan now joins more than a dozen other States to implement red 
flag laws, sometimes known as extreme risk protection orders.
  Our State has been rocked by each gun death earlier this year: a mass 
shooting at Michigan State, as well as at the end of 2021, a mass 
shooting at Oxford High School.
  Moms Demand Action, and so many others in our community, for gun 
safety, the number one killer of children in the United States of 
America. I am so pleased to see Michigan take this step.

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