weird Michigan pistol registration story....does this make sense

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Honestly, thanks for that, @bearman49709.

I’ve been meaning to lose some extras and this conversation made me investigate the process.

Skipping the FFL fee is a great incentive to buyers. Especially around here, in the land of Exorbitant Transfer Fees.
Many of them new, or like me, have never bought a used pistol. (Which I keep trying to remedy, but then the “new hotness” comes out and I need a 365...:D)
 
Demi-human said:
Well, yeah, but that’s $40 each transfer. Better than a $250 fine I suppose!:)



Oy, has it been so long since I’ve bought one without a CPL? :D

Yes, in lieu of a carry license, a purchase permit is necessary to buy a pistol in Michigan. I vaguely remember needing it for my first centerfire pistol. But I needed that for the CPL too, so it all ran together.

As if anyone needed to pile on my beloved peninsular paradise, it is also illegal to idle your car in your driveway in Roseville.

And you make not chain an alligator to a fire hydrant either.

But what place doesn’t have some silly laws?;)
In Oklahoma, a female is not allowed to do her own hair unless licensed by the state...:confused:
(Preventing Mass Curlings?)
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The Oklahoma law is slightly misquoted. You can't do someone else's hair for pay without a license.
 
WheelGunMan said:
Yep.. a lifelong Michigander here. I live in the northern part of the lower peninsula where the winters are brutal (they weren't when I was young) but the rest of the seasons are what keeps me here. Can't imagine living somewhere that has no ready access to the inland lakes and waterways... and of course, the spectacular hunting.
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I spent one January in Oscoda a number of years back, to oversee some work during the closure of Wurtsmith AFB. Beautiful country, but dang it was cold! :uhoh:
 
Reading through a few Michigan Laws concerning guns my take is pretty simple.There are plenty of much, much worse places to be a gun owner / buyer. My brother is a resident but keeps his better guns at our sister's house in Columbus, Ohio area. Reading what I read this morning I really do not see Michigan all that bad as far as gun rights. Nice lakes and woodlands too. Absolutely loved Muskee fishing on Lake St. Clair. Nope, as compared to many other states Michigan isn't all that bad.

Ron
 
Demi-human said:
Yes, my governor is a colossal Jackass, one that wouldn’t know science if it kicked her husband in the motorboat. But all of Michigan is not Lansing or Detroit. That’s what everyone wants it to be, but most of Michigan is paradise.

Ha, you want to talk about oppression by little bits of paper? Her semi-autistic self just mandated masks, yesterday. After the peak has gone by.
She punishes us, to thumb her nose a Trump.
Thus, I thumb my nose at her.
A $200 fine for not wearing a mask while walking down a sidewalk alone? Show me the officer that will write it! This ain’t Lansing!
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Indeed it is. I'm in Iosco County, in the Huron National Forest. Out of the cesspool that is Wayne County for good over 7 years ago. I have a medical exception that even der fuhrer ascribes to, but haven't had to say it more than a couple times, here. And our sheriff says he will NOT enforce that nonsense.
 
Just to fill in, supposedly the person behind the desk told him it was too late to do anything but have an unregistered gun. They did not offer to have him pay the fine and then register it. Maybe getting the fine goes on a person's record and might affect something down the road??? I do not know. Just seems like they should have a way for a late comer to comply.
 
John G C 1 said:
Just to fill in, supposedly the person behind the desk told him it was too late to do anything but have an unregistered gun. They did not offer to have him pay the fine and then register it. Maybe getting the fine goes on a person's record and might affect something down the road??? I do not know. Just seems like they should have a way for a late comer to comply.
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Of everything, this is the most silly and what I am sorry most for. How ridiculous.
Why is there no reconciliation? There is no way to fix it save for a fine, or some convoluted sell and buy?
Just dumb. My apologies on behalf of the non idiot citizens of the state who are not politicians.:D
 
John G C 1 said:
...gun and could be fined. If you do nothing, then you just have a gun that is not registered and the most that could be done to you is if some agency fined you $250 for not registering.

But if...
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Could they (MI authority) confiscate the handgun also, seeing it is in violation? What does that particular statute say please. Thnx!

As a side note isn't it kinda odd that my state has reciprocity with MI, and if I travel there MY handgun isn't registered LoL
 
I do not know. Sounds like a weird situation where you can get fined for not registering the gun but actually having the gun is not illegal.

Again, I am not an authority.
 
MI2600 said:
Last week. I bought a handgun online. It was shipped to my FFL who did the necessary checks and I walked out with my gun.
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The forms that were filled out and you signed is part of the registration process. There probably was background check performed too.
 
Bandit67 said:
The FFL should have filled out 3 copies of the MI RI-060. One for you to keep, one for you to take to the local PD within 10 days, and one for him to keep.
That's the form this entire thread is about.
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I'm going with that from a Michigan resident. Thank you.

So let me ask you this. Someone moves from Ohio for example to Michigan. They own a pile of guns both short and long. Maybe 20 guns total. So what would the procedure be?

Ron
 
Bandit67 said:
I was born and raised in MI. This is such a beautiful state. Awesome hunting and fishing.
Compared to some other state's gun laws I never knew ours were so terrible that it would keep people from moving here. Dropping off a piece of paper to the local P.D. within 10 days of a pistol purchase just doesn't seem like that big of a deal to me. I usually just swing by on my way home from buying the gun.
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Not a big deal unless you can't make it within the deadline for whatever reason.
 
Seems like a way for the state to make extra money off of or otherwise harass gun owners.. Why not just have the FFL electronically send that information in at time of purchase?
 
About 25 years ago, my Dad passed and I inherited his WW II Luger bring-back. He had registered it in Ohio years before. I took it to our small PD and they just put it in the MI system. I'm not sure about several weapons and it may also depend on the PD.
 
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