Michigan's Own Courts Just Confirmed Red Flag = Guns First, Rights Never

This isn't an NRA estimate. It isn't a think-tank projection. It is Michigan's own Supreme Court administrative office counting its own confiscation orders against its own citizens—and handing Second Amendment advocates the receipts.

The report details how the state's Extreme Risk Protection Order statute operates *in practice*. Not in theory. Not in campaign talking points. **In practice.**

Here is what "ERPO" looks like on the ground: a petitioner—a family member, a cop, sometimes a near-stranger carrying a grudge—walks into a courthouse, makes allegations, and a judge orders your guns seized that same day. You don't get to speak. You don't get to cross-examine. You don't get appointed counsel. You lose your Second Amendment rights first. You fight to get them back later—if you can afford to.

That is not due process. That is a prior restraint on a constitutional right. **That is the exact abuse the Founders built the Bill of Rights to stop.**

Michigan passed this law under Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, part of a national push funded and coordinated by Michael Bloomberg's gun-control apparatus to normalize confiscation-first jurisprudence state by state. The playbook is deliberate: pass the law, let it run, publish the numbers, use those numbers to pressure the next state legislature. Michigan's report is now that data point. Every confiscation order in it becomes ammunition for the next anti-gun campaign somewhere else.

The NRA-ILA flagged the document as "eye-opening"—and it is, because the state's own bureaucracy is confirming the scope of the regime it built.

Michigan gun owners need to hear this plainly: under this law, any person in your life—a disgruntled ex, an anti-gun neighbor, a family member who disagrees with your politics—can set in motion a process that ends with police at your door before you have been charged with a single crime. **No charges. No trial. No Second Amendment.**

Anti-gun legislators in states without ERPOs are already pointing to reports like this one as proof the system "works." What they mean is the confiscations are happening at scale—and courts aren't restoring rights fast enough to matter.

Know your state's ERPO statute cold. Support NRA-ILA and every organization actively litigating these cases. If you're in Michigan, contact your state legislators by name—and tell them you've read the report.

Because the other side already has.