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Michigan

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    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.
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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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    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.
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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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    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.§
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    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.
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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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    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.