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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,
    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,
    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,
    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.