It strikes me as odd that Michigan requires a permit to purchase a handgun, yet at the same time is a “shall issue” state.
Michigan isn’t alone, North Carolina is similar. You need a permit (issued by your local county sheriff’s department at their discretion) to *receive* a handgun, but not to actually possess one. In theory, once you get the gun, the permit is thrown away. Only one jurisdiction in the state is legally allowed to force handgun registration, and that’s here in Durham County; they were grandfathered in when the current law was passed circa 1930.
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It's an old relic from the 1920's that's still hung around. The permit system was passed when the black population was increasing in Michigan during the great migration.
Shall Issue passed in 2000.