Court Opinion

ID: 9673888
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 04:20:03.858738+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:24.503484
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Beasley, P.J.
(dissenting). I respectfully dissent. I do not find the interpretation placed on a somewhat similar statute in 1948 by the Federal district court for the District of Columbia either persuasive or binding.1
The statute excepts three categories:
" * * * in his dwelling house or place of business or on other land possessed by him.”2
*519Granted that the language is somewhat ambiguous and that drawing the parameters of the exceptions is difficult, I would find that for purposes of the concealed weapons statute a validly licensed taxicab is a place of business.3
Therefore, I would affirm.

 United States v Waters, 73 F Supp 72 (D DC, 1947), cause certified, 175 F2d 340 (1948), app dis, 335 US 869; 69 S Ct 168; 93 L Ed 413 (1948).

 MCL 750.227; MSA 28.424.

 People v Gatt, 77 Mich App 310; 258 NW2d 212 (1977), lv den, 402 Mich 837 (1977).