June 7, 2016, Introduced by Reps. Hoadley, Liberati, Wittenberg, Geiss, Chang, Garrett, Banks, Plawecki, Guerra, Zemke, Singh, Gay-Dagnogo, Irwin, Hovey-Wright, Townsend, Heise, Howell, Inman, Crawford, Price, Lucido, Moss, Sarah Roberts and Howrylak and referred to the Committee on Criminal Justice.
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.
(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.
(f) An unmanned aerial vehicle equipped with a weapon that is
designed to be used, shot, fired, or discharged remotely. As used
in this subdivision, "weapon" includes any of the following:
(i) A firearm as that term is defined in section 1 of 1927 PA
372, MCL 28.421.
(ii) A crossbow, bow, or rubber band device designed to propel
a bolt, dart, or arrow.
(iii) Any of the weapons listed in this subsection.
(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) This section does not prohibit a person from being charged
with, convicted of, or punished for any other violation of law
arising out of the same transaction as the violation of this
section.
(4) (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).
(5) (4)
As used in this chapter: ,
"muffler"
(a) "Muffler" or "silencer" means 1 or more of the following:
(i) (a)
A device for muffling, silencing,
or deadening the
report of a firearm.
(ii) (b)
A combination of parts, designed or
redesigned, and
intended for use in assembling or fabricating a muffler or
silencer.
(iii) (c)
A part, designed or redesigned, and
intended only
for use in assembling or fabricating a muffler or silencer.
(b) "Unmanned aerial vehicle" means an aircraft that is
operated without the possibility of direct human intervention from
within or on the aircraft.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.