Benton Township Police Chief Greg Abrams is hoping to help prevent gun violence in the community with some of the things he learned at the 2025 Gun Violence Intervention Summit in Lansing last week.

Speaking on the latest Chat with the Chief podcast, Abrams said he learned a lot of surprising things about gun violence. One of them was that a lot of gun owners still don’t know about the state’s new safe storage law.

“ Public Act 17 of 2023 requires individuals to keep unattended weapons unloaded and locked with a locking device or stored in a locked box or container if it is reasonably known that a minor is likely to be present on the premises,” Abrams said. “ So that means that they don’t

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