1816

1816 Mich. Pub. Acts 128, An Act For The Punishment Of Crimes, § 47.

Michigan

That if any person shall by word, message, letter, or any other way, challenge another to fight a duel, with a rapier, or small sword, back sword, pistol, or other dangerous weapon, or shall accept a challenge, although no duel be fought, or knowingly be the bearer of such challenge, or shall any way abet, prompt, encourage, persuade, seduce or cause any person to fight a duel, or to challenge another to fight such a duel, every person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, shall be punished by fine, not exceeding five hundred dollars, …
Dueling

1841

1841 Mich. Pub. Acts 30, An Act To Amend An Act Entitled “An Act To Incorporate The Village of Ypsilanti, And The Acts Or Acts Amendatory Thereof,” §14.

Michigan

And the said common council shall have power . . . relative to the keeping and sale of gunpowder in said village[.]
Storage

1846

Sanford Moon Green, The Revised Statutes of the State of Michigan: Passed and Approved May 18, 1846 Page 692, Image 708 (1846) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

Michigan

Arrest &c. of Offenders, § 16. If any person shall go armed with a dirk, dagger, sword, pistol or other offensive and dangerous weapon, without reasonable cause to fear an assault or other injury, or violence to his person, or to his family or property, he may, on complaint of any person having reasonable cause to fear an injury or breach of the peace, be required to find sureties for keeping the peace, for a term not exceeding six months, with the right of appealing as before provided.
Carrying Weapons

1846

Sanford Moon Green, The Revised Statutes of the State of Michigan: Passed and Approved May 18, 1846 Page 200-201, Image 216-217 (1846) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

Michigan

Municipal Regulations of Police, Gunpowder, § 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 …
Storage

1848

The Revised Charter and Ordinances of the City of Detroit Page 150, Image 151 (1848) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

Michigan

[Ordinances of Detroit,] Prevention of Fires, § 9. 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 …
Firing Weapons

1867

1867 Mich. Pub. Acts 2d Reg. Sess. 68, An Act To Revise The Charter Of The Village Of Hudson, § 31, pt. 12.

Michigan

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.
Storage

1869

1869 Mich. Pub. Acts 2d Reg. Sess. 158, A Act to Amend An Act Entitled “An Act To Incorporate The Village Of Howell,” § 15.

Michigan

[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.
Storage

1872

James S. Dewey, The Compiled Laws of the State of Michigan. Compiled and Arranged under an Act of the Legislature, Approved January 25, 1871 Page 680, Image 690 (Vol. 1, 1872) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

Michigan

For the Protection of Game and Muskrats. (2096.) § 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 rob or destroy the nests of any wild ducks or wild geese, or in any manner kill or molest the same whilst they are sitting at night on their nesting places.
Hunting

1875

1875 Mich. Pub. Acts 136, An Act To Prevent The Setting Of Guns And Other Dangerous Devices, § 1.

Michigan

[I]f any person 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 of some competent person, he shall be deemed to have committed a misdemeanor; and the killing of any person by the firing of a gun or device so set shall be deemed to be manslaughter.
Dangerous or Unusual Weapons

1879

1879 Mich. Pub. Acts 43-44, Local Acts, An Act To Amend . . . An Act To Incorporate The Village Of Constantine, § 12

Michigan

The common council shall have full power and authority to . . . regulate the keeping and sale of gunpowder in said village[.]
Storage

1883

1883 Mich. Pub. Acts 6, An Act To Amend . . . Acts Relating To The Protection Of Game, § 4.

Michigan

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.
Hunting

1883

1883 Mich. Pub. Acts 144, An Act To Prevent The Sale And Use Of Toy Pistols, § 1.

Michigan

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.
Possession by, Use of, and Sales to Minors and Others Deemed Irresponsible

1887

George P. Brown, The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Marquette. The Laws Relating to the Board of Water and Fire Commissioners, the Board of Light and Power Commissioners, School District Number One, and the Peter White Public Library, Also Miscellaneous Provisions Page 213, Image 246 (1898) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

Michigan

Carrying of Concealed Weapons. That 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.
Carrying Weapons

1887

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

Michigan

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, razor, or other offensive and dangerous weapon or instrument concealed upon his person.
Carrying Weapons

1887

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

Michigan

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; and the use and [sic] kind of lamps or lights to be used in barns, stables and all buildings usually regarded as extra hazardous on account of fire, and to regulate, prevent and restrain the making of bonfires in the streets, lanes, alleys and public places[.]
Firing Weapons

1891

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.

Michigan

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 injury to any person or property, who shall threaten to beat or kill another, or injure him in his person or property . . . shall be deemed a disorderly person, and upon conviction thereof may be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and the costs of prosecution, and in the imposition of any …
Carrying Weapons