To establish that using a firearm in self defense or to defend one’s home or property under the <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2006-HB-5143">2006 law</a> repealing a legal “duty to retreat” in such situations is not considered illegal “brandishing,” which means to display or wave a firearm in a menacing or threatening manner. Also, to revise the brandishing law to require the behavior to be “willful” in order to warrant criminal prosecution. House Bill 4161 clarifies the definition of brandishing.
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