I mean, the NRA had a stranglehold on our legislature. It was sort of this third rail issue. And then We had been working on legislation for going past, even when I've been in the legislature for about a decade, on things like universal background checks and safe storage and closing the domestic violence loophole and creating a red flag law. And it didn't happen overnight. I know that there was a lot of coverage of, you know, the, the Michigan state shooting being the thing that pushed that legislation, but … (03:17–03:30)
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