From raising the age to purchase firearms to banning “assault weapons,” a state-led task force has issued a host of recommendations it says will reduce gun violence and save lives in Michigan.

It’s unclear whether the state Legislature will take up and pass these recommendations unveiled Monday, Nov. 24, by the Michigan Gun Violence Prevention Task Force in its final report .

Some of the recommendations are likely to face stiff resistance in the Republican-controlled House, which has declined to take up bans on bump stocks and ghost guns passed by the Senate and now recommended by the task force.

House Speaker Matt Hall, R-Richland Township, hadn’t yet reviewed the recommendations as of Monday morning and couldn’t comment.

Senate Majority Leader Winnie Brinks, D-Grand Rapids, said Se

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