• Michigan Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof speaks with reporters in June at the State Capitol in Lansing. The Republican is sponsoring fast-tracked legislation that would let gun owners carry concealed weapons inside schools and other gun-free zones. | AP
    Michigan Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof speaks with reporters in June at the State Capitol in Lansing. The Republican is sponsoring fast-tracked legislation that would let gun owners carry concealed weapons inside schools and other gun-free zones. | AP

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LANSING, MICHIGAN – The Republican-controlled Michigan Senate was poised Tuesday to begin passing legislation to let people with extra training carry guns inside churches, schools and other places now off limits.

The bills were expected to be approved by a committee Tuesday, two days after a gunman killed 26 people at a Texas church. The full chamber planned to vote as early as Wednesday. Republican Gov. Rick Snyder vetoed legislation in 2012 that would have allowed concealed pistol license holders with additional training to carry in gun-free zones.

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