Verified Firearm Specifications

MI1016 — purchase and sale

Citation: Mich. Comp. Laws § 28.422(2)(1)

Except as otherwise provided in this act, a person shall not purchase, carry, possess, or transport a pistol in this state without first having obtained a license for the pistol as prescribed in this section. (b) The person is 18 years of age

MI1019 — purchase and sale

Citation: Mich. Comp. Laws Serv. § 28.422(3)(b)

(3) The commissioner or chief of police of a city, township, or village police department that issues licenses to purchase, carry, possess, or transport pistols, or his or her duly authorized deputy, or the sheriff or his or her duly authorized deputy, in the parts of a county not included within a city, township, or village having an organized police department, in discharging the duty to issue licenses shall with...

MI1020 — purchase and sale

Citation: Mich. Comp. Laws § 750.223(2)

A person who knowingly sells a firearm more than 26 inches in length to a person under 18 years of age is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for not more than 90 days, or a fine of not more than $500.00, or both.

MI1015 — purchase and sale

Citation: 1927 P.A. 372 § 2

No person shall purchase a pistol as defined in this act without first having obtained a license therefor herein...No such license shall be granted to any person except he be nineteen years of age or over

MI1022 — license required

Citation: Michigan Comp. Laws § 28.422(1)

Except as otherwise provided in this act, a person shall not purchase, carry, possess, or transport a pistol in this state without first having obtained a license for the pistol as prescribed in this section.

MI1070 — required

Citation: Mich. Comp. Laws Serv. § 28.422 Sec. 2. (1)(b) and Mich. Comp. Laws Serv. § 28.422a Sec. 2a. (1)

Sec. 2. (1) Except as otherwise provided in this act, a person shall not do either of the following: (a) Purchase, carry, possess, or transport a pistol in this state without first having obtained a license for the pistol as prescribed in this section. M.C.L.A. § 28.422 Sec. 2.

MI1071 — required

Citation: Mich. Comp. Laws Serv. § 28.422 Sec. 2. (1)(a)

Sec. 2. (1) Except as otherwise provided in this act, a person shall not do either of the following: (a) Purchase, carry, possess, or transport a pistol in this state without first having obtained a license for the pistol as prescribed in this section.

MI1064 — required

Citation: Mich. Comp. Laws § 28.422

(1) Except as otherwise provided in this act, a person shall not purchase, carry, possess, or transport a pistol in this state without first having obtained a license for the pistol as prescribed in this section.

MI1074 — erpo : ex parte expanded

Citation: MCR 3.718 (A)

(A) Ex Parte Orders. Except as otherwise provided in this rule: (1) The court must rule on a request for an ex parte order within one business day of the filing date of the complaint. The court must expedite and give priority to ruling on a request for an ex parte order.

MI1035 — dvro ex parte : expanded

Citation: Mich. Comp. Laws §§ 600.2950, 600.2950a

Sec. 2950. (1) By commencing an independent action to obtain relief under this section, by joining a claim to an action, or by filing a motion in an action in which the petitioner and the individual to be restrained or enjoined are parties, an individual may petition the circuit court to enter a personal protection order to restrain or enjoin a spouse, a former spouse, an individual with whom he or she has had a...

MI1032 — mental health : committed to mh facility

Citation: Mich. Comp. Laws Serv. § 28.422

Except as otherwise provided in this act, a person shall not purchase, carry, possess, or transport a pistol in this state without first having obtained a license for the pistol as prescribed in this section. (g) The person is not under an order of involuntary commitment in an inpatient or outpatient setting due to mental illness. (h) The person has not been adjudged legally incapacitated in this state or elsewhere.

MI1033 — mental health : committed to mh facility : outpatient

Citation: Mich. Comp. Laws Serv. § 28.422

Except as otherwise provided in this act, a person shall not purchase, carry, possess, or transport a pistol in this state without first having obtained a license for the pistol as prescribed in this section. (g) The person is not under an order of involuntary commitment in an inpatient or outpatient setting due to mental illness. (h) The person has not been adjudged legally incapacitated in this state or elsewhere.

MI1065 — mental health : committed to mh facility

Citation: Mich. Comp. Laws Serv. § 28.422

(a) Purchase, carry, possess, or transport a pistol in this state without first having obtained a license for the pistol as prescribed in this section. (b) Purchase a firearm that is not a pistol in this state without first having obtained a license for the firearm as prescribed in this section.

MI1066 — mental health : committed to mh facility : outpatient

Citation: Mich. Comp. Laws Serv. § 28.422

(b) Purchase a firearm that is not a pistol in this state without first having obtained a license for the firearm as prescribed in this section. This subdivision does not apply to the purchase or acquisition of a firearm that occurred before the effective date of the amendatory act that added this subdivision.

MI1031 — mental health : adjudicated as mentally incompetent//incapacitated/disabled

Citation: Mich. Comp. Laws Serv. § 28.422

1) Except as otherwise provided in this act, a person shall not purchase, carry, possess, or transport a pistol in this state without first having obtained a license for the pistol as prescribed in this section. (f) The person has not been adjudged insane in this state or elsewhere.

MI1075 — required

Citation: Mich. Comp. Laws Serv. § 28.422

Sec. 2. (1) Except as otherwise provided in this act, a person shall not do either of the following: (a) Purchase, carry, possess, or transport a pistol in this state without first having obtained a license for the pistol as prescribed in this section. (b) Purchase a firearm that is not a pistol in this state without first having obtained a license for the firearm as prescribed in this section.

MI1067 — required

Citation: Mich. Comp. Laws Serv. §§ 28.422 (5)

28.422(5) If an individual purchases or otherwise acquires a pistol, the seller shall fill out the license forms describing the pistol, together with the date of sale or acquisition, and sign his or her name in ink indicating that the pistol was sold to or otherwise acquired by the purchaser.

MI1024 — required

Citation: Mich. Comp. Laws Serv. §§ 750.232, 28.422

§ 750.232. Purchasers of firearms; registration. Sec. 232. Registration of purchasers of pistols, etc. Any person engaged in any way or to any extent in the business of selling at retail, guns, pistols, other fire-arms or silencers for fire-arms who shall fail or neglect to keep a register in which shall be entered the name, age, occupation and residence (if residing in the city with the street number of such...

MI1054 — lost and stolen firearms

Citation: M.C.L.A. § 28.430, Sec. 10(1)

A person who owns a firearm shall, within 5 days after he or she knows his or her firearm is stolen, report the theft to a police agency having jurisdiction over that theft.

MI1023 — Waiting Periods: De facto (permit required)

Citation: Mich. Comp. Laws § 28.422

(1) Except as otherwise provided in this act, a person shall not purchase, carry, possess, or transport a pistol in this state without first having obtained a license for the pistol as prescribed in this section.

MN1048 — private sales : point of sale

Citation: Minn. Stat. Ann. §624.7132, subd. 4

Subd. 4. Delivery. Except as otherwise provided in subdivision 7 or 8, no person shall deliver a pistol or semiautomatic military-style assault weapon to a proposed transferee until 30 days after the date the agreement to transfer is delivered to a chief of police or sheriff in accordance with subdivision 1 unless the chief of police or sheriff waives all or a portion of the waiting period.

MN1049 — permit to purchase

Citation: Minn. Stat. § 624.7134, subds. 2

Subd. 2. Background check and evidence of identity. An unlicensed person is prohibited from transferring a pistol or semiautomatic military-style assault weapon to any other unlicensed person, unless: (1) the transfer is made through a firearms dealer as provided for in subdivision 3; or (2) the transferee presents a valid transferee permit issued under section 624.7131 and a current state or federally issued...

MN1059 — extra time

Citation: Minn. Stat. Ann. §624.7132, subd. 4

Subd. 4. Delivery. Except as otherwise provided in subdivision 7 or 8, no person shall deliver a pistol or semiautomatic military-style assault weapon to a proposed transferee until 30 days after the date the agreement to transfer is delivered to a chief of police or sheriff in accordance with subdivision 1 unless the chief of police or sheriff waives all or a portion of the waiting period.

MN1036 — sales from dealer : federal

Citation: 18 U.S.C.A. § 922(t)(1)

Beginning on the date that is 30 days after the Attorney General notifies licensees under section 103(d) of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act that the national instant criminal background check system is established, a licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, or licensed dealer shall not transfer a firearm to any other person who is not licensed under this chapter, unless- (A) before the completion of the...

MN1035 — sales from dealer : federal

Citation: 18 U.S.C.A. § 922(t)

Beginning on the date that is 90 days after the date of enactment of this subsection and ending on the day before the date that is 60 months after such date of enactment, it shall be unlawful for any licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, or licensed dealer to sell, deliver, or transfer a handgun to an individual who is not licensed under section 923, unless- (A) after the most recent proposal of such transfer by...

MN1002 — sales from dealer

Citation: Minn. Stat. § 624.7132, subd. 1, 2

Except as provided in this section and section 624.7131, every person who agrees to transfer a pistol shall report the following information in writing to the chief of police of the organized full-time police department of the municipality where the agreement is made or to the appropriate county sheriff if there is no such local chief of police… Upon receipt of a transfer report, the chief of police or sheriff shall...

MN1022 — extra time

Citation: Minn. Stat. Ann. §624.7132, subd. 4

No person shall deliver a pistol to a proposed transferee until seven days after the date of the agreement to transfer as stated on the report delivered to a chief of police or sheriff in accordance with subdivision 1 unless the chief of police or sheriff waives all or a portion of the seven day waiting period.

MN1005 — shall issue

Citation: Minn. Stat. § 624.714

Subd. 2. Where application made; authority to issue permit; criteria; scope. (a) Applications by Minnesota residents for permits to carry shall be made to the county sheriff where the applicant resides. Nonresidents, as defined in section 171.01, subdivision 42, may apply to any sheriff.

MN1004 — may issue

Citation: Minn. Stat. § 624.714(5)

No permit to carry shall be granted to a person unless the applicant: (a) Is not a person prohibited by section 624.713 from possessing a pistol; (b) Provides a firearms safety certificate recognized by the department of natural resources, evidence of successful completion of a test of ability to use a firearm supervised by the chief of police or sheriff or other satisfactory proof of ability to use a pistol safely;...

MN1006 — traditional

Citation: Minn. Stat. Ann. § 609.065

The intentional taking of the life of another is not authorized by section 609.06, except when necessary in resisting or preventing an offense which the actor reasonably believes exposes the actor or another to great bodily harm or death, or preventing the commission of a felony in the actor's place of abode.

MN1040 — traditional

Common law castle doctrine. Common law castle doctrine was solidified in the United States throughout the 19th century. “By the beginning of the twentieth century it was well accepted in the United States that a man attacked in his own home had no duty to retreat before using deadly force, so long as he reasonably believed it necessary to save his own life.” Indeed, by the 1920s, sources note that the castle...

MN1008 — negligent storage

Citation: Minn. Stat. § 609.666, Subd. 2, 3

Subd. 2. Access to firearms. A person is guilty of a gross misdemeanor who negligently stores or leaves a loaded firearm in a location where the person knows, or reasonably should know, that a child is likely to gain access, unless reasonable action is taken to secure the firearm against access by the child. Subd. 3. Limitations.

MN1050 — required

Citation: Minn. Stat. §§ 518B.01, subd. 6 (g)

(g) An order granting relief shall prohibit the abusing party from possessing firearms for the length the order is in effect if the order (1) restrains the abusing party from harassing, stalking, or threatening the petitioner or restrains the abusing party from engaging in other conduct that would place the petitioner in reasonable fear of bodily injury, and (2) includes a finding that the abusing party represents a...

MN1051 — assault weapons ban - Federal

Citation: Pub. L. 103-322 Sec. 110102

This subtitle may be cited as the “Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act”. SEC. 110102. RESTRICTION ON MANUFACTURE, TRANSFER, AND POSSESSION OF CERTAIN SEMIAUTOMATIC ASSAULT WEAPONS.

MN1053 — ban on high capacity magazines - federal

Citation: Pub. L. 103-322 Sec. 110103

SEC. 110103. BAN OF LARGE CAPACITY AMMUNITION FEEDING DEVICES. << 18 USCA § 922 >> (a) PROHIBITION.-Section 922 of title 18, United States Code, as amended by section 110102(a), is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: “(w)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), it shall be unlawful for a person to transfer or possess a large capacity ammunition feeding device.

MN1010 — saturday night special ban

Citation: Minn. Stat. §§ 624.712, 624.716

624.712 Definitions Subd. 4. Saturday night special pistol. -- "Saturday night special pistol" means a pistol other than an antique firearm or a pistol for which the propelling force is carbon dioxide, air or other vapor, or children's pop guns or toys, having a frame, barrel, cylinder, slide or breechblock: (1) of any material having a melting point (liquids) of less than 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit, or (2) of any...