purchase permit needed for cx4 storm in michigan?

[collateral]

I can't figure out if the cx4 storm carbine from beretta is treated as a rifle or a pistol in michigan.

I know rifles with folding or telescoping stocks that are under 30 inches in length when the stock is collapsed are treated as pistols, but what about those with fixed stocks?

 

[Chuckulator]

Read the Attorney General Opinion

http://www.ag.state.mi.us/opinion/datafiles/1980s/op06280.htm

Excerpts

The definition of the term 'pistol' is set forth in subsection (a) of MCL 28.421; MSA 28.91:

"Pistol' means any firearm, loaded or unloaded, 30 inches or less in length, or any firearm, loaded or unloaded, which by its construction and appearance conceals it as a firearm.'

The definition of the term 'pistol' in MCL 28.421; MSA 28.91, is unambiguous. It clearly covers all firearms which are not more than 30 inches in length. The firearms which are described generally in the first question and specifically in the examples are fully operable when they are 30 inches or less in length and are pistols under MCL 28.422; MSA 28.92.