Bill Text: MI HB5513 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Crimes; weapons; prohibition against sale, manufacture, or possession of brass knuckles, blackjacks, and clubs; eliminate. Amends sec. 224 of 1931 PA 328 (MCL 750.224).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-06 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 02/01/2018 [HB5513 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2017-HB5513-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 5513

 

 

February 1, 2018, Introduced by Reps. Miller, Johnson and Barrett and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

     A bill to amend 1931 PA 328, entitled

 

"The Michigan penal code,"

 

by amending section 224 (MCL 750.224), as amended by 2006 PA 401.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 224. (1) A person shall not manufacture, sell, offer for

 

sale, or possess any of the following:

 

     (a) A machine gun or firearm that shoots or is designed to

 

shoot automatically more than 1 shot without manual reloading, by a

 

single function of the trigger.

 

     (b) A muffler or silencer.

 

     (c) A bomb or bombshell.

 

     (d) A blackjack, slungshot, billy, metallic knuckles, sand

 

club, sand bag, or bludgeon.

 

     (d) (e) A device, weapon, cartridge, container, or contrivance

 

designed to render a person temporarily or permanently disabled by

 

the ejection, release, or emission of a gas or other substance.

 

     (2) A person who violates subsection (1) 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.

 

     (3) Subsection (1) does not apply to any of the following:

 

     (a) A self-defense spray or foam device as defined in section

 

224d.

 

     (b) A person manufacturing firearms, explosives, or munitions

 

of war by virtue of a contract with a department of the government

 

of the United States.

 

     (c) A person licensed by the secretary of the treasury of the

 

United States or the secretary's delegate to manufacture, sell, or

 

possess a machine gun, or a device, weapon, cartridge, container,

 

or contrivance described in subsection (1).

 

     (4) As used in this chapter, "muffler" or "silencer" means 1

 

or more of the following:

 

     (a) A device for muffling, silencing, or deadening the report

 

of a firearm.

 

     (b) A combination of parts, designed or redesigned, and

 

intended for use in assembling or fabricating a muffler or

 

silencer.

 

     (c) A part, designed or redesigned, and intended only for use

 

in assembling or fabricating a muffler or silencer.