Michigan Considering This For Concealed Carry Permit Holders

By Tom Knighton

When you have any kind of a license that’s good for several years, it’s easy to think you’re good to go when you’re not. Just this year, I found that I’d been driving on an expired license for months. I’d even gone through a DUI checkpoint with that license and no one said a thing. It happens.

Yet, in many places, the penalties for forgetting your carry permit expired is life destroying.

Take Michigan, for instance. Currently, if you’re found to be carrying a weapon with an expired permit, you face losing your rights to own guns completely. However, that may soon change.

The measure, House Bill 4458, was passed Wednesday by the House on a 82-26 vote and now heads to the Senate for consideration, the Associated Press reported.

The proposal would reduce penalties for those who carry concealed firearms with expired concealed carry permits to a $330 fine rather than a five-year felony charge, so long as the permit is within six months of expiring at the time of the violation. The fine could be waived if the permit is renewed within 60 days of the violation.

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Source:: Bearing Arms