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Michigan

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1820 Terr. of Mich. Laws 207, An Act For The Punishment Of Crimes, § 49.
(1820)
Prohibited Dueling
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.
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[.]
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.
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
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;
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.
1841 Mich. Pub. Acts 29-30
(1841)
No. 18, §14: And the said common council shall have power . . . relative to the keeping and sale of gunpowder in said village[.]
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.
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[.]
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.
The Revised Charter and Ordinances of the City of Detroit 199 (1855)
(1855)
§ 10: Prohibited the discharge of any cannon. Violators fined twenty-five dollars.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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, § 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
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.
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
The Revised Charter and Ordinances of the City of Detroit 150 (1848)
(1848)
§§ 9-10: No person shall fire or set off any squib, cracker, gunpowder or fire works, or fire any gun or pistol in any part of this city, unless by written permission of the Mayor or two Aldermen, which permission shall limit the time of such firing, and shall be subject to be revoked at any time by the Common Council; and any person or persons violating any of the provisions of this section, shall forfeit the penalty of five dollars for each and every offence. § 10. Every person firing a cannon within this city, unless by permission of the Mayor or two Aldermen, shall forfeit the penalty of twenty-five dollars: Provided, that nothing in this or the preceding section shall be construed to prohibit any military company from firing any gun or cannon when authorized by their commanding officer or officers.
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[.]
1927 Mich. Pub. Acts 891, No. 372, § 10
(1927)
No pawnbroker shall accept a pistol in a pawn
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.
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 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.
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.§
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.
1875 Mich. Pub. Acts 136
(1875)
No. 97, § 1: Prohibited the setting of any spring or trap gun.
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.

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