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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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    Ordinance no. 29, An Ordinance to Preserve the Public Peace § 1, in Revised Charter of the City of Ypsilanti (1898) (Approved 1882).
    (1882)
    Prohibited the concealed carry of firearms, dirks and other deadly weapons
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    Ordinance no. 32, An Ordinance Relative to the Prevention of Fires § 12, in Revised Charter of the City of Ypsilanti (1898) (Approved 1882).
    (1882)
    §No person shall fire or set off any squib, crackers, gunpowder or fire works, or fire off any gun or pistol in any street, lane, alley, or other public space, or in any yard, public or private, within the limits of the city, unless by written permission from the Mayor;
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    General Ordinances of the Village of Saint Joseph, Saint Joseph Saturday Herald, Oct. 5, 1889, at 7
    (1889)
    §§ 8-9: No person shall shoot any bird or animal, or hunt with gun or dog in any street, alley, park or public ground. No person, except peace officers, shall carry or wear under their clothes, or concealed about their person any pistol, revolver or slung-shot, knuckles, bowie-knife, dirk, dagger or any other dangerous or deadly weapon, except by written permission of the President.
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    1869 Mich. Pub. Acts 157-58
    (1869)
    Second Regular Session, No. 247, § 15: [T]he common council shall have full power and authority to make by laws and ordinances . . . relative to keeping and sale of gunpowder, nitroglycerine, and all other dangerous and explosive articles, or burning fluids.
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    1867 Mich. Pub. Acts 68
    (1867)
    Second Regular Session, No. 266, § 31, pt. 12: To regulate the buying, selling, and using of gunpowder, fire-crackers and fire-works, and other combustible materials, to regulate and prohibit the exhibition of fire-works, and the discharge of fire-crackers and fire-arms, and to restrain the making or lighting of fires in the streets and other open spaces in said village.
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    1879 Mich. Pub. Acts 43-44
    (1879)
    Local Acts, An Act To Amend . . . An Act To Incorporate The Village Of Constantine, § 12: The common council shall have full power and authority to . . . regulate the keeping and sale of gunpowder in said village[.]
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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;
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    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.
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    1875 Mich. Pub. Acts 136
    (1875)
    No. 97, § 1: Prohibited the setting of any spring or trap gun.
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    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.