By Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press
LANSING — Reports say members of the Michigan Capitol Commission have sought legal advice on the issue of whether firearms should be banned inside the Michigan Capitol building.
Thursday's protest brought the issue of the longstanding practice of allowing open carry of firearms inside the Capitol under national scrutiny, after Capitol demonstrators, some of them carrying rifles,pressed together outside the entrance to the House chamber and shouted to be allowed inside.
Hundreds of protesters gathered last Thursday on the Capitol lawn, urging the Legislature not to extend Michigan's coronavirus state of emergency, which provides the legal basis for Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's stay-at-home order and other emergency orders. Later, the governor extended the state of emergency through May 28 without legislative approval. The stay-at-home order runs through May 15.
Republican John Truscott is vice chair of the six-member Michigan State Capitol Commission, which oversees the building. Truscott said he was "very disturbed" by what he saw last Thursday. During the Lansing radio interview Truscott added, "We do not like seeing guns brought into the building — loaded guns — and I'm a Second Amendment advocate".
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