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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.

  • Legal sources: statutes and session laws, administrative code, attorney general opinions, appellate decisions, and select municipal ordinances.
  • Historical materials: newspapers, photographs, maps, catalogs, Great Lakes maritime and forestry records, automotive and manufacturing archives, law-enforcement collections, and oral histories tied to Michigan people and places.
  • Research outputs: technical reports, academic studies, training manuals, and curated datasets relevant to the state.

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  • Item type:Item,
    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;
  • Item type:Item,
    1901 Mich. Pub. Acts 687
    (1901)
    Local Acts, no. 469, tit. 3, § 8, pt. 7: To regulate, restrain or prohibit the buying, selling, carrying, and using of firearms, weapons, gunpowder, firecrackers or fireworks manufactured or prepared therefrom, or from other combustible material, and the exhibition of fireworks, and the discharge of firearms, and the lights in barns, stables and other buildings, and to restrain and prohibit the making of bonfires in streets, yards, alleys and other public places.
  • Item type:Item,
    1901 Mich. Pub. Acts 158
    (1901)
    Local Acts, tit. 7, no. 344, § 24, pt. 49: To prohibit and punish the use of toys pistols, air guns, sling shots and other dangerous toys, implements or weapons within said city.
  • Item type:Item,
    1895 Mich. Pub. Acts 596
    (1895)
    Local Acts, § 44: Prohibited firing or discharging any gun or pistol, or carry of firearms, throwing of stones or other missiles within Bell Isle Park or boulevard
  • Item type:Item,
    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;