Michigan has a slew of relatively new gun control laws on the books. With Gretchen Whitmer as governor, no one should be shocked this happened.

Gun control laws are billed as a way to keep guns out of the hands of those who shouldn’t have them. This is the marketing we see on virtually every gun control bill, including many of the new measures introduced in Michigan.

Yet the problem is that gun control doesn’t actually work. It never has and never will. Not with keeping guns out of the hands of people like criminals, at least.

For example:

A Croswell man arrested last week for possession of methamphetamine has been arraigned, according to the Sanilac County Drug Task Force.

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A joint investigation with the St. Clair County Drug Task Force prompted Sanilac DTF to obtain a search warrant, with the resulting search finding meth and multiple firearms and ammunition, which the man illegally had. He was arraigned Friday, October 25, for possessing methamphetamine and being a felon in possession of guns and ammo. He was given a $2000 bond.

So we have a drug-using felon with multiple firearms despite all of the laws on the books against just that.

Now, often I’ll point out how if people can get drugs, they can get guns, but that’s typically with drugs that have to be smuggled in. Even if every law restricting gun sales worked flawlessly, smuggling guns in would still be a viable way of arming criminals.

But meth is often produced domestically. Smuggling doesn’t really come into play, at least not in as obvious of a manner as something like cocaine or heroin.

That changes things, doesn’t it?

Not really.

I wrote earlier today about 3D-printed firearms, after all. Those can be made domestically as well.

See, no matter where you turn, there are ways around gun control laws, regardless of who makes them and what they’re intended to do. Granted, a lot of people figure the laws work just fine because they’re really about disarming you or me, and I won’t say they’re wrong, but that’s not how they’re sold to the public.

They’re sold to the people as a way to keep guns out of the hands of people like this, only as we can see, they don’t.

Criminals aren’t worried about laws. It’s kind of part of the job description. So, they bypass laws by getting stolen guns from others, stealing them for themselves, or convincing someone else to buy one on their behalf. That gets around every gun control law on the books.

But even if you managed to somehow prevent that, they’ll still find a way to get guns.

Some argue that this isn’t a sufficiently valid reason not to restrict guns, that even if the laws don’t work perfectly, they’ll still disarm some criminals.

It won’t, though. The only people who will end up having problems are the people who want to do things lawfully.

In Michigan, things are a bit more of a pain in the posterior for law-abiding gun buyers, but criminals like this guy (allegedly) are getting guns just as they always have.

So, Michigan, how’s that gun control working out for ya?