Michigan Senate Bill No. 30 Would Allow Tasers and More

GW: This is an edited version of the bill. If this becomes law – and, I think it should – permit holders will finally carry concealed weapons, rather than be limited to pistols. Tasers work well for law eforcement and by not using lethal force, defenders’ lives will not be ruined in civil court after the criminal element has been neutralized.

January 19, 2011, Introduced by Senators JONES and HANSEN and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

A bill to amend 1927 PA 372, entitled

“An act to regulate and license the selling, purchasing, possessing, and carrying of certain firearms and gas ejecting devices; to prohibit the buying, selling, or carrying of certain firearms and gas ejecting devices without a license or other authorization; to provide for the forfeiture of firearms under certain circumstances; to provide for penalties and remedies; to provide immunity from civil liability under certain circumstances; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state and local agencies; to prohibit certain conduct against individuals who apply
for or receive a license to carry a concealed pistol; to make appropriations; to prescribe certain conditions for the appropriations; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act,”

An act to regulate and license the selling, purchasing, possessing, and carrying of certain firearms, and gas ejecting devices, and electro-muscular disruption devices; to prohibit the buying, selling, or carrying of certain firearms, and gas ejecting devices, and electro-muscular disruption devices without a license or other authorization; to provide for the forfeiture of firearms under certain circumstances; to provide for penalties and remedies; to provide immunity from civil liability under certain circumstances; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state and local agencies; to prohibit certain conduct against individuals
who apply for or receive a license to carry a concealed pistol; to make appropriations; to prescribe certain conditions for the appropriations; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act.

Sec. 5f. (1) An individual who is licensed under this act to carry a concealed pistol shall have his or her license to carry that pistol in his or her possession at all times he or she is carrying a concealed pistol.

(2) An individual who is licensed under this act to carry a concealed pistol and who is carrying a concealed pistol shall show both of the following to a peace officer upon request by that peace officer:

(a) His or her license to carry a concealed pistol.

(b) His or her driver license or Michigan personal identification card.

(3) An individual licensed under this act to carry a concealed pistol and who is carrying a concealed pistol and who is stopped by a peace officer shall immediately disclose to the peace officer that he or she is carrying a pistol concealed upon his or her person or in his or her vehicle. If the individual is carrying on his or her person or in his or her vehicle a portable device that uses electro-muscular disruption technology pursuant to section 224a(2)(a)(xii)…

The complete bill can be viewed at:http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2011-2012/billintroduced/Senate/htm/2011-SIB-0030.htm