HOUSE BILL No. 4532


     April 21, 1999, Introduced by Reps. Vear, Kukuk, Howell, Koetje, Kuipers, Woronchak, Voorhees, LaSata, Richardville, Birkholz, Sanborn, Julian, Middaugh, Jelinek, Ehardt, Allen, Faunce, Pappageorge, Bishop, Schauer, Green, Cameron Brown, Patterson, Schermesser, Jansen, Vander Roest, Mortimer, Garcia, Basham, Frank, DeHart, Shulman, Cassis,
Raczkowski and Tabor and referred to the Committee on Conservation and Outdoor Recreation.


        A bill to amend 1931 PA 328, entitled

   "The Michigan penal code,"

   by amending section 231a (MCL 750.231a).

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 1         Sec. 231a.  (1) Section 227 does not apply to any of the

 2    following:

 3         (a) To a person holding a valid license to carry a pistol

 4    concealed upon his or her person issued by another state except

 5    where the pistol is carried in nonconformance with a restriction

 6    appearing on the license.

 7         (b) To the regular and ordinary transportation of pistols as

 8    merchandise by an authorized agent of a person licensed to manu-

 9    facture firearms.

10         (c) To a person carrying an antique firearm as defined in

11    subsection (2), completely unloaded  ,  in a wrapper or container


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 1    in the trunk of a vehicle.  while en route to or from a hunting

 2     or target shooting area or function involving the exhibition,

 3     demonstration or sale of antique firearms. 

 4         (d) To a person while carrying a pistol unloaded in a wrap-

 5    per or container in the trunk of  the person's  A vehicle.  ,

 6     while in possession of a valid Michigan hunting license or proof

 7     of valid membership in an organization having pistol shooting

 8     range facilities, and while en route to or from a hunting or

 9     target shooting area.

10          (e) To a person while carrying a pistol unloaded in a wrap-

11     per or container in the trunk of the person's vehicle from the

12     place of purchase to his or her home or place of business or to a

13     place of repair or back to his or her home or place of business,

14     or in moving goods from one place of abode or business to another

15     place of abode or business. 

16         (E)  (f)  To a person while carrying an unloaded pistol in

17    the passenger compartment of a vehicle  which  THAT does not have

18    a trunk  ,  if the person is otherwise complying with the

19    requirements of subdivision (d)  or (e)  and the wrapper or con-

20    tainer is not readily accessible to the occupants of the

21    vehicle.

22         (2) As used in this section, "antique firearm" means either

23    of the following:

24         (a) A firearm not designed or redesigned for using rimfire

25    or conventional center fire ignition with fixed ammunition and

26    manufactured in or before 1898, including a matchlock, flintlock,

27    percussion cap, or similar type of ignition system or replica



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 1     thereof  OF SUCH A FIREARM, whether actually manufactured before

 2    or after  the year  1898.

 3         (b) A firearm using fixed ammunition manufactured in or

 4    before 1898, for which ammunition is no longer manufactured in

 5    the United States and is not readily available in the ordinary

 6    channels of commercial trade.

 7         Enacting section 1.  This amendatory act takes effect

 8    September 30, 1999.

 9         Enacting section 2.  This amendatory act does not take

10    effect unless Senate Bill No. ___ or House Bill No. ___ (request

11    no. 00486'99 ***) of the 90th Legislature is enacted into law.


































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