This means you couldn't carry bow&full quiver, riffle, or a kitchen knife (at an outdoor picnic). This interpretation will never stand. If it did, they've effectively outlawed hunting unless you have a CPL. There are FAR too many hunters in Michigan to let that happen.
Read it again.
Sec. 14. (1) Subject 1 to section SECTIONS 5g AND 14A, all pistols, weapons, or devices carried or possessed contrary to this act are declared forfeited to the state, and shall be turned over to the director of the department of state police or his or her
designated representative, for disposal under this section.
If you are caught carrying a pistol, weapon, or device
contrary to the law, i.e. illegally, it becomes forfeit. That is the law as it stands right now but now all local PDs send any confiscated weapons to the MSP for disposal. So right now there is no monetary incentive for local PDs to seize firearms. If these bills pass each local PD will be able to use confisctated firearms to gain money, equipment, or both. Like I said earlier, if you want somebody to do something make it profitable. If these pass the temptation to abuse the law to fill the city's bank account becomes too great.
As has been said it is already happening with property seized during drug raids. In the book
The Tyranny Of Good Intentions the author writes about how officers have staged drug buys on a piece of property desired by the city. Once a drug bust takes place they can seize EVERYTHING connected to it, even the property it was held on. There is a case in that book of a woman's home being seized because, unbeknownst to her, her child had a party with underage drinking. The laws in that area allowed the seizure of any property connected to ANY crime.
Once laws like this are put in place the abuse is bound to follow.
Bronson
