firearms laws Mich 2024

FIREARMS LAWS OF MICHIGAN

or awaiting examination, trial, arraignment, sentence, or after sentence awaiting or during transfer to or from a prison, for a crime or offense, or charged with a crime or offense who, without being discharged from the place of confinement, or other lawful imprisonment by due process of law, through the use of violence, threats of violence or dangerous weapons, assaults an employee of the place of confinement or other custodian knowing the person to be an employee or custodian or breaks the place of confinement and escapes, or breaks the place of confinement although an escape is not actually made, is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 5 years or a fine of not more than $2,500.00, or both. (2) As used in this section: (a) “Place of confinement” includes a correctional facility operated by the department of corrections, a local unit of government, or a private vendor under section 20i of 1953 PA 232, MCL 791.220i. (b) “Employee” includes persons who are employed by the place of confinement as independent contractors. History: Add. 1967, Act 59, Eff. Nov. 2, 1967;  Am. 1976, Act 188, Eff. Jan. 1, 1977;  Am. 1998, Act 510, Imd. Eff. Jan. 8, 1999;  Am. 2006, Act 535, Imd. Eff. Dec. 29, 2006. 750.200 Explosives; common carriers for passengers; transportation. Sec. 200. (1) A person shall not transport, carry, or convey dynamite, gunpowder, or any other explosive between any places within this state on any vessel, car, or vehicle of any description that is operated by a common carrier and that is carrying passengers for hire. A person who violates this section is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 5 years or a fine of not more than $3,000.00, or both. (2) This section does not prohibit the transportation of any of the following: (a) Small arms ammunition in any quantity. (b) Fuses, torpedoes, rockets, or other signal devices essential to promote safety in operation. (c) Properly packed and marked samples for laboratory examination that do not exceed a net weight of 1/2 pound each and that do not exceed 20 samples at 1 time in a single vessel, car, or vehicle if the samples are not carried in that part of a vessel, car, or vehicle that is intended for transporting passengers for hire. (3) This section does not prohibit the transportation of military or naval forces with their accompanying munitions of war on passenger equipment vessels, cars, or vehicles. (4) This section does not apply to the transportation of benzine, naphtha, gasoline, or kerosene. 750.222 Definitions. Sec. 222. As used in this chapter: (a) “Alcoholic liquor” means that term as defined in section 105 of the Michigan liquor control code of 1998, 1998 PA 58, MCL 436.1105. (b) “Barrel length” means the internal length of a firearm as measured from the face of the closed breech of the firearm when it is unloaded, to the forward face of the end of the barrel. (c) “Brandish” means to point, wave about, or display in a threatening manner with the intent to induce fear in another person. (d) “Controlled substance” means a controlled substance or controlled substance analogue as those terms are defined in section 7104 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.7104. (e) “Firearm” means any weapon which will, is designed to, or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by action of an explosive. (f) “Pistol” means a loaded or unloaded firearm that is 26 inches or less in length, or a loaded or unloaded firearm that by its construction and appearance conceals itself as a firearm. (g) “Pneumatic gun” means that term as defined in section 1 of 1990 PA 319, MCL 123.1101. (h) “Purchaser” means a person who receives a pistol from another person by purchase, gift, or loan. (i) “Rifle” means a firearm designed or redesigned, made or remade, and intended to be fired from the shoulder and designed or redesigned and made or remade to use the energy of the explosive in a fixed metallic cartridge to fire only a single projectile through a rifled bore for each single pull of the trigger. (j) “Seller” means a person who sells, furnishes, loans, or gives a pistol to another person. (k) “Short-barreled rifle” means a rifle having 1 or more barrels less than 16 inches in length or a weapon made from a rifle, whether by alteration, modification, or otherwise, if the weapon as modified has an overall length of less than 26 inches. ( l ) “Short-barreled shotgun” means a shotgun having 1 or more barrels less than 18 inches in length or a weapon made from a shotgun, whether by alteration, modification, or otherwise, if the weapon as modified has an overall length of less than 26 inches. History: 1931, Act 328, Eff. Sept. 18, 1931;  CL 1948, 750.200;  Am. 1998, Act 206, Eff. Oct. 1, 1998. Former law: See section 1 of Act 182 of 1909, being CL 1915, § 15251; and CL 1929, § 16795. CHAPTER XXXVII FIREARMS CHAPTER XXXIII EXPLOSIVES AND BOMBS, AND HARMFUL DEVICES

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