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Michigan

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Michigan. It supports research on the state’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from the territorial period through statehood to the present.

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1927 Mich. Pub. Acts 888-89
(1927)
No. 372, § 3: Prohibited manufacturing, selling, or possessing a machine gun, silencer, bomb, bombshell, blackjack, slungshot, billy, metallic knuckles, sandclub, bludgeon. Punishable by fine up to $1,000 or imprisonment.
1927 Mich. Pub. Acts 891, No. 372, § 11
(1927)
No person shall willfully alter, remove, or obliterate the. name of the maker, model, manufacturer's number, or other identity mark of any pistol
1929 Mich. Pub. Acts 529
(1929)
An Act to Regulate and License the Selling, Purchasing, Possessing and Carrying of Certain Firearms, § 3: Prohibited manufacturing, selling, or possessing a machine gun or firearm that can be fired more than 16 times without reloading. Also Prohibited the same for a muffler or silencer.
1931 Mich. Pub. Acts 670
(1931)
The Michigan Penal Code, ch. 37, §233: Any person who shall intentionally, without malice, point or aim any fire-arm at or toward any other person, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
1931 Mich. Pub. Acts 671, § 236
(1931)
The Michigan Penal Code, ch. 37, § 236: Prohibited the setting of any spring or trap gun.
1927 Mich. Pub. Acts 891, No.372, § 9
(1927)
An Act to Regulate and License the Selling, Purchasing, Possessing and Carrying of Certain Firearms, § 9: Required registration for the owners of pistols
1931 Mich. Pub. Acts 671, § 237
(1931)
The Michigan Penal Code, ch. 37, §237: Any person under the influence of intoxicating liquor or any exhilarating or stupefying drug who shall carry, have in possession or under control, or use in any manner or discharge any fire-arm within this state, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
1927 Mich. Pub. Acts 891, No. 372, § 10
(1927)
No pawnbroker shall accept a pistol in a pawn
1907 Mich. Pub. Acts 68
(1907)
An Act Defining the Crime of Burglary with Explosives and Providing the Punishment Therefor, § 1: Any person who with intent to commit crime, breaks and enters any building and for the purpose of committing any crime, uses or attempt to use nitroglycerine, dynamite, gunpowder or any other high explosive shall be deemed guilty of burglary with explosives and on conviction shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of not less than fifteen years nor more than thirty years.
1901 Mich. Pub. Acts 336
(1901)
An Act to Revise and Amend the Laws for the Protection of Game and Birds, § 11: Nor shall any person or persons make use of any swivel or punt gun for the killing of any water fowl, or make use of any battery, sink boat or similar device whatever, save only a gun of not greater size than ten caliber, such gun to be held in the hands at the time firing[.]
1925 Mich. Pub. Acts 473-476
(1925)
An Act to Regulate the Possession and Sale of Pistols, Revolvers and Guns; to Provide a Method of Licensing Those Carrying Such Weapons Concealed; and to Provide Penalties for Violations of Such Regulations, § 5: No person shall carry a pistol, revolver or gun concealed on or about his person or in any vehicle owned or operated by him, except in his dwelling house, place of business or on his premises, without a license therefor, as hereinafter provided.§
1883 Mich. Pub. Acts 144
(1883)
No. 138, § 1: That no person shall sell, give, or furnish to any child under the age of thirteen years, any cartridge of any form or material, or any pistol, gun, or other mechanical contrivance, specially arranged or designated for the explosion of the same.
1925 Mich. Pub. Acts 108
(1925)
An Act to Create a District of Refuge in Ingham County to Be Known as "Pine Lake Wild Life Sanctuary" in Which It Shall Be Unlawful to Kill,Catch or Destroy Any Wild Game Animals . . . , § 2: It shall be unlawful for any person to hunt, trap, capture, kill or otherwise destroy any wild game animals, wild game or songbirds, their young offspring or eggs in the district hereinbefore described, or to molest the homes, nests or houses of such wild game animals, or wild game or songbirds. . . . It shall be prima facie evidence of hunting on said refuge for all person other than an officer charged with enforcing the provisions of this act to be found thereon with a loaded gun outside of his home or building owned or occupied by him.
1921 Mich. Pub. Acts 21
(1921)
An Act to Give Additional Protection to Wild Birds and Animals and Game within the State of Michigan, Prohibiting the Hunting for or Capture or Killing of Such Wild Birds, or Animals, or Game, by Unnaturalized Foreign-born Residents, Forbidding the Ownership or Possession of Shotgun, or Rifle, or Pistol, or Firearms of Any Kind, by Any Unnaturalized Foreign-born Resident, within the State, and Prescribing Penalties for Violation of its Provisions, § 1: Prohibited ownership or possession of firearms by noncitizens; violators subject to fine, imprisonment, and confiscation and resale of weapon by state.
1890 Mich. Gen. Stat. 3800
(1890)
Tit. 39, § 9113a: Prohibited going armed with a concealed dirk, dagger, sword, pistol, air-gun, stiletto, metallic knuckles, pocket-billie, sand-bag, skull-cracker, slung-shot, razor, or other offensive and dangerous weapon. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, punished by fine not more than one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding three months.
1913 Mich. Pub. Acts 452
(1913)
An Act Defining the Crime of Felonious Assault and Prescribing Punishment Therefor, § 1: Whoever shall assault another with a gun, revolver, pistol, knife, iron bar, club, brass knuckles or other dangerous weapon, but without intending to commit the crime of murder, and without intending to inflict great bodily harm less than the crime of murder, shall be deemed guilty of a felonious assault, and upon conviction shall be punished by imprisonment in the State Prison for a term not exceeding three years or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding one year, in the discretion of the court.
George P. Brown, The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Marquette 213 (1898)
(1887)
§ 875: It shall be unlawful for any person, except officers of the peace and night-watches legitimately employed as such, to go armed with a dirk, dagger, sword, pistol, air-gun, stiletto, metallic knuckes, pocket-billie, sand-bag, skull-cracker, slung-shot, razor, or other offensive and dangerous weapon or instrument concealed upon his person.
1883 Mich. Pub. Acts 6
(1883)
No. 10, § 4: No person or persons shall at any time kill or attempt to kill, any wild duck or other wild fowl with or by means of a swivel or punt gun, or by means or use of any battery, sunken boat, or other device similar to a battery, or rob or destroy the nests of any wild duck or wild goose or brant, or in any manner kill or molest the same, at night or at any time, on their nesting places.
1887 Mich. Pub. Acts 251
(1887)
Local Acts, No. 405, ch 18, § 11 pt. 7: To direct the location of all buildings for storing gunpowder or other combustible or explosive substances; to make regulations concerning the buying, carrying, selling, keeping and using gunpowder, fire-crackers or fire-works, or other combustible, inflammable [sic], explosive or dangerous articles; the exhibition of fire-works and the discharge of cannon and fire-arms;
1913 Mich. Pub. Acts 472
(1913)
An Act Providing for the Registration of the Purchasers of Guns, Pistols, Other Fire-arms and Silencers for Fire-arms and Providing a Penalty for Violation, § 1-2: Every person, firm or corporation engaged in any way or to any extent in the business of selling at retail guns, pistols, other fire-arms and silencers for fire-arms shall keep a register in which shall be entered the name, age, occupation and residence (if residing in the city with the street number of such residence) of each and every purchaser of such guns, pistols, other fire-arms or silencers for fire-arms together with the number or other mark of identification, if any, on such gun, pistol, other fire-arms or silencer for firearms which said register shall be open to the inspection of all peace officers at all times.
1887 Mich. Pub. Acts 144
(1887)
No. 129, § 1: Prohibited the carrying of a concealed dirk, dagger, sword, pistol, air gun, stiletto, metallic knuckles, pocket-billy, sandbag, skull cracker, slungshot, razor or other offensive and dangerous weapon or instrument.
1846 Mich. Rev. Stat. 200-01
(1846)
§ 3. The inhabitants of every township or incorporated village may, at any regular meeting, order that no gunpowder shall be kept in any place within the limits of such township or village, unless the same shall be kept in tight casks or canisters; and that no gunpowder above the quantity of fifty pounds, shall be kept or deposited in any shop, store or other building, or in any ship or vessel, which shall be within the distance of twenty-five rods from any other building, or from any wharf; that no gunpowder above the quantity of twenty-five pounds, shall be kept or deposited in any shop, store or other building, within ten rods of any other building; and that no gunpowder above the quantity of one pound, shall be kept or deposited in any shop, store or other building, within ten rods of any other building, unless the same shall be well secured in copper, tin or brass canisters, holding not exceeding five pounds each, and closely covered with copper, brass or tin covers. § 4. Upon complaint being made on oath to any justice of the peace, by any township or village officer, that he has probable cause to suspect that gunpowder is deposited or kept within the limits of the township or village, contrary to any such order, such justice may issue his warrant, directed to any constable of such township, or the marshal of such village, ordering him to enter any shop, store or other building, or vessel specified in said warrant, and there to make diligent search for the gunpowder suspected to have been deposited or kept as aforesaid, and to make return of his doings to such justice forthwith. § 5. If any person shall commit either of the offences mentioned in the two preceding sections, he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty dollars; but the two preceding sections shall not extend to any manufactory of gunpowder, nor in any case prevent the transportation thereof through any township, or from one part of any township to another part thereof.
1875 Mich. Pub. Acts 136
(1875)
No. 97, § 1: Prohibited the setting of any spring or trap gun.
1872 Mich. Comp. Laws. 680, ch. 64, § 3
(1872)
No person or persons shall at any time kill or attempt to kill any wild duck, or other wild fowl, with or by means of a swivel or punt gun, or rob or destroy the nests of any wild ducks or wild geese, or in any manner kill or molest the same whilst they are sitting at night on their nesting places.
1846 Mich. Rev. Stat. 692, § 16
(1846)
Ch. 162, §16: : If any person shall go armed with a dirk, dagger, sword, pistol or other offensive and dangerous weapon, without reasonable cause to fear an assault or other injury, or violence to his person, or to his family or property, he may, on complaint of any person having reasonable cause to fear an injury or breach of the peace, be required to find sureties for keeping the peace, for a term not exceeding six months, with the right of appealing as before provided.

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