A 44-year-old Michigan man was charged under the state’s new gun storage law after his 2-year-old daughter shot herself in the head with his unsecured revolver the day after the law took effect.
He is the first person charged under the new law, which requires safe storage of firearms.
The incident occurred in Flint.
The man faces charges including child abuse, violating the gun storage law, felon in possession of a firearm, and lying to police.
Police found the revolver the girl shot herself with and another loaded, unsecured pistol in the man’s bedroom, along with no gun locks or safes.
The prosecutor emphasized the shooting happened just one day after the new storage law took effect.
The girl remains hospitalized in critical condition.
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