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1895 Mich. Local Acts 596, § 44

| | 1895

SEC. 44.  No person shall fire or discharge any gun or pistol firearms or fireworks. or carry firearms, or throw stones or other missiles within said park or boulevard, nor shall any person fire, discharge or set off any rocket, cracker, torpedo, squi...

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1931 Mich. Pub. Acts 671, The Michigan Penal Code, ch. 36, §237.

| | 1931

Possession or use of fire-arm by person under influence of liquor or drug--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 discha...

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1931 Mich. Pub. Acts 671, The Michigan Penal Code, ch. 37, §236.

| | 1931

Setting spring guns, etc.--Any person who shall set any spring or other gun, or any trap or device operating by the firing or explosion of gunpowder or any other explosive, and shall leave or permit the same to be left, except in the immediate presence...

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1929 Mich. Pub. Acts 529, An Act to Regulate and License the Selling, Purchasing, Possessing and Carrying of Certain Firearms, § 3.

| | 1929

It shall be unlawful within this state to manufacture, sell, offer for sale or possess any machine gun or firearm which can be fired more than sixteen times without reloading or any muffler, silencer, or device for deadening or muffling the sound of a ...

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1927 Mich. Pub. Acts 888-89, An Act to Regulate and License the Selling, Purchasing, Possessing and Carrying of Certain Firearms, § 3.

| | 1927

It shall be unlawful within this state to manufacture, sell, offer for sale, or possess any machine gun or firearm which can be fired more than sixteen times without reloading, or any muffler, silencer or device for deadening or muffling the sound of a...

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1927 Mich. Pub. Acts 891,An Act to Regulate and License the Selling, Purchasing, Possessing and Carrying of Certain Firearms, § 9.

| | 1927

SEC. 9. On or before the first day of November, nineteen hundred twenty-seven, any person within this state who owns or has in his possession a pistol as defined in this act, shall, if he reside in an incorporated city or an incorporated village having...

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1925 Mich. Pub. Acts 473, An Act to Tegulate 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, § 2-4.

| | 1925

§ 2. Any person who shall commit or attempt to commit a felony when armed with a pistol, revolver or gun, as defined in section one, shall, in addition to the punishment provided for committing the crime, be punished by imprisonment for not less t...

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1925 Mich. Pub. Acts 108, 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.

| | 1925

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 w...

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1925 Mich. Pub. Acts 47, 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, § 7.

| | 1925

No person shall deliver or otherwise transfer a pistol, revolver or gun as defined in this act, to a person unless it be securely wrapped and unloaded. Before the same is delivered to the purchaser, he shall sign in triplicate and deliver to the seller...

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1925 Mich. Pub. Acts 473, 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.

| | 1925

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. The pr...

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1913 Mich. Pub. Acts 452, An Act Defining the Crime of Felonious Assault and Prescribing Punishment Therefor, § 1.

| | 1913

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 ...

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1913 Mich. Pub. Acts 472, 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.

| | 1913

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 residenc...

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1907 Mich. Pub. Acts 68, An Act Defining the Crime of Burglary with Explosives and Providing the Punishment Therefor, § 1.

| | 1907

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 explo...

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1901 Mich. Pub. Acts 154, Local Acts, An Act to Revise and Amend the Charter of the City of Muskegon . . . , tit.7, § 24, pt. 11.

| | 1901

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 i...

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1901 Mich. Pub. Acts 336, An Act to Revise and Amend the Laws for the Protection of Game and Birds, § 11.

| | 1901

No person shall injure, kill or destroy by any means whatever, any kind of wild duck, wild goose, brant, snipe, plover, or any kind of wild water fowl, save only from the first day of October to the thirtieth day of November following thereafter, both ...

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1901 Mich. Pub. Acts 687, Local Acts, An Act to Revise and Amend the Charter of the City of Saginaw . . . , tit. 3, § 8 pt. 7.

| | 1901

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 disch...

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1895 Mich. Pub. Acts 596, . . . An Act Supplemental To The Charter Of The City Of Detroit . . . , § 44.

| | 1895

No person shall fire or discharge any gun or pistol or carry firearms, or throw stones or other missiles within said park or boulevard, nor shall any person fire, discharge or set off any rocket, cracker, torpedo, squib, or other fireworks or things co...

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1891 Mich. Pub. Acts 409, Local Acts, An Act to Annex the Territory Embraced within the City of East Saginaw to That of the City of Saginaw and to Consolidate . . . under the Name of the City of Saginaw . . . , tit. 11, § 15.

| | 1891

And all persons who shall carry concealed on or about their persons, any pistol, revolver, bowie knife, dirk, slung shot, billie, sand bag, false knuckles, or other dangerous weapon, or who shall lay in wait, lurk or be concealed, with intent to do inj...

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1887 Mich. Pub. Acts 251, Local Acts, An Act To Incorporate The City Of Marshall . . . , ch. 18, § 11, pt. 7.

| | 1887

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, in...

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1887 Mich. Pub. Acts 144, An Act to Prevent The Carrying Of Concealed Weapons, And To Provide Punishment Therefor, § 1.

| | 1887

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 knuckles, pocket-billie, sand-bag, skull-cracker, slung-shot,...

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