Michigan Police, Sheriffs Will Defy Firearms Ban at Polling Places
26th October 2020
Michigan law enforcement officials say they cannot enforce the state’s secretary of state executive order prohibiting openly carried firearms at or near polling places on election day because they have no lawful authority to make an arrest.
“The issue with the Secretary of State issuing the ban on open carry at the polling stations is she issued an administrative order,” said Robert Stevenson, head of the Michigan Association of Chiefs of Police. “Michigan has an open carry law that prohibits open carry in defined locations. Polling locations are not one of those.
“So, the issue for us is not that we won’t enforce the ban, it’s that there is no law that we can enforce. We have no authority to enforce the secretary’s order. This is exactly what prosecutors are advising us.”
Michigan’s Secretary of State is a Crustian female Democrat SJW and crony of Gretchen Whitmer. Apparently they don’t teach Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School.