‘I’VE GOT A SHOTGUN RIFLE AND I JUST PUT A BULLET IN IT WITH YOUR NAME ON IT!’ Hall, who now opposes gun safety laws, wrote in an email to another college student at the time.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed new laws to strengthen Michigan’s gun safety legislation earlier this year. Democratic lawmakers in the Legislature plan to pass more bills.

Extreme risk protection laws, which allow judges to confiscate weapons when they think owners could pose a danger to themselves or others, can be effective at preventing gun deaths.

After winning back control of the Legislature for the first time in 40 years, the Democratic majority is passing a host of progressive bills.