“Permits aren’t required for open carry in Michigan. I’ve never understood the reason for needing one for concealed carry.”
Most of the concealed carry bans were meant to keep certain groups of people from being armed. These were those considered outside of mainstream society, slaves, then freed blacks, hispanics in Texas and California, Chinese and Japanese, and Eastern European immigrants. All of the “right people” understood that these laws were not to be applied to the white middle and upper classes. But over time, the elites got scared, particularly in the early 1900s and in the middle 1960s, so they started seriously enforcing the law against all those but the elites, who could always get a permit a dollar a year badge.
should be “permit or a dollar a year badge.”