Bill Text: MI SB0984 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Chaptered


Bill Title: Weapons; firearms; procedures for out-of-state purchase of rifles and shotguns; clarify. Amends secs. 1 & 2 of 1969 PA 207 (MCL 3.111 & 3.112).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 16-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-12-27 - Assigned Pa 0378'12 With Immediate Effect [SB0984 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2011-SB0984-Chaptered.html

Act No. 378

Public Acts of 2012

Approved by the Governor

December 18, 2012

Filed with the Secretary of State

December 18, 2012

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 18, 2012

STATE OF MICHIGAN

96TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2012

Introduced by Senators Casperson, Green, Pavlov, Caswell, Booher, Colbeck, Jansen, Hansen, Hildenbrand, Proos, Jones, Marleau, Robertson, Rocca, Meekhof and Pappageorge

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 984

AN ACT to amend 1969 PA 207, entitled “An act to permit residents to purchase rifles and shotguns in contiguous states and to provide for reciprocity,” by amending sections 1 and 2 (MCL 3.111 and 3.112).

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 1. Residents of this state may purchase rifles and shotguns in any state if they conform to the federal gun control act of 1968, Public Law 90-618, and the regulations issued under that act, as administered by the secretary of the treasury, and with the laws of the state in which the purchase is made.

Sec. 2. Residents of another state may purchase rifles and shotguns in this state if they conform to the federal gun control act of 1968, Public Law 90-618, and the regulations issued under that act, as administered by the secretary of the treasury, and with the laws of the state in which the purchaser resides.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Secretary of the Senate

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Approved

Governor