Michigan
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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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Item type:Item, 1897 Mich. Acts 1030(1897)§ 15: Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, revolver, bowie knife, dirk, slung shot, billie, sand bag, false knuckles, or other dangerous weapon. Also prohibited lying in wait with intent to injure. Violators fined not exceeding one hundred dollars with costs, failure to pay costs punished with imprisonment not exceeding ninety days.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 154, § 24, pt. 11(1901)Local Acts, No. 344, tit.7, § 24, pt. 11: To regulate, restrain and prohibit the buying, carrying and selling gunpowder, fire crackers [sic] or fireworks manufactured and prepared therefrom, or other combustible materials, the exhibition of fireworks and the discharge of firearms, and lights in barns, stables and other buildings, and to restrain the making of bonfires in streets, yards and public grounds[.]Item type:Item, 1891 Mich. Pub. Acts 409(1891)Police Department, pt 15: Prohibited the carrying of a concealed pistol, revolver, Bowie knife, dirk, slungshot, billie, sandbag, false knuckles, or other dangerous weapon. Also prohibited lurking or being concealed with the intent to injure a person or property, or threatening to beat or kill a person or property. Punishable by fine up to $100 and the costs of prosecution, and in default of payment, imprisonment.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, 1901 Mich. Pub. Acts 154, § 24, pt. 10.(1901)Local Acts, no. 344, tit. 7, § 24, pt. 10: [T]o direct the location of slaughter houses, markets and buildings for the storing of gunpowder and other combustible and explosive substances[.]Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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 pistolItem type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 1931 Mich. Pub. Acts 671, § 236(1931)The Michigan Penal Code, ch. 37, § 236: Prohibited the setting of any spring or trap gun.Item type:Item, 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 pistolsItem type:Item, 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.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 boulevardItem type:Item, Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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[.]Item type:Item, 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.§Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.