Michigan Concealed-Carry Law Constitutional, State Court Rules

A Michigan law requiring a concealed-carry license for firearms doesn’t run afoul of Second and Fourteenth amendments of the US Constitution, the state Court of Appeals ruled.

The law comports with the US Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen, which says judges must analyze gun laws on their consistency with the nation’s history of such regulations, Judge Kathleen A. Feeney wrote Thursday in an opinion for the three-judge panel.

The Michigan court zeroed in on a Bruen footnote that said the justices weren’t ruling that regulations in 43 states, including ...