§ 750.224Weapons; manufacture, sale, or possession as felony; violation as felony;

penalty; exceptions; "muffler" or "silencer" defined.
 Sec. 224.
    (1) A person shall not manufacture, sell, offer for sale, or possess any of the following:
    (a) A machine gun or firearm that shoots or is designed to shoot automatically more than 1
 shot without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger.
    (b) A muffler or silencer.
    (c) A bomb or bombshell.
    (d) A blackjack, slungshot, billy, metallic knuckles, sand club, sand bag, or bludgeon.
    (e) A device, weapon, cartridge, container, or contrivance designed to render a person
 temporarily or permanently disabled by the ejection, release, or emission of a gas or other
 substance.
    (2) A person who violates subsection (1) is guilty of a felony, punishable by imprisonment
 for not more than 5 years, or a fine of not more than $2,500.00, or both.
    (3) Subsection (1) does not apply to any of the following:
    (a) A self-defense spray or foam device as defined in section 224d.
    (b) A person manufacturing firearms, explosives, or munitions of war by virtue of a contract
 with a department of the government of the United States.
    (c) A person licensed by the secretary of the treasury of the United States or the secretary's
 delegate to manufacture, sell, or possess a machine gun, or a device, weapon, cartridge,
 container, or contrivance described in subsection (1).
    (4) As used in this chapter, "muffler" or "silencer" means 1 or more of the following:
    (a) A device for muffling, silencing, or deadening the report of a firearm.
    (b) A combination of parts, designed or redesigned, and intended for use in assembling or
 fabricating a muffler or silencer.
    (c) A part, designed or redesigned, and intended only for use in assembling or fabricating a
 muffler or silencer.