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Washington

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Washington. It supports research on the state’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from the territorial period through statehood to the present.

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    1909 Wash. Sess. Laws 984
    (1909)
    Ch. 249, Subchapter 8-Crimes against the Public Peace, §§ 307-308: Every person who shall aim any gun, pistol, revolver or other firearm, whether loaded or not, at or towards any human being, or who shall wilfully discharge any firearm, air gun or other weapon, or throw any deadly missile in a public place, or in any place where any person might be endangered thereby, although no injury result, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.No minor under the age of fourteen years shall handle or have in his possession or under his control, except while accompanied by or under the immediate charge of his parent or guardian, any firearm of any kind for hunting or target practice or for other purposes. Every person violating any of the foregoing provisions, or aiding or knowingly permitting any such minor to violate the same, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor."
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    An Ordinance Relating to Offenses and Disorderly Conduct and Repealing Ordinances no. 152, 178, & 471, Olympia City Council, Ordinance no. 523, § 3 (Washington, 1891).
    (1891)
    That any person who shall draw, exhibit or attempt to use any pistol, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, cross-knuckles or knuckles of brass, lead or other metal, or other deadly or dangerous weapon, upon, to or against any person or persons in said city of Olympia, shall upon conviction thereof before a police justice of said city, be fined in any sum not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars, and in default of the payment thereof, shall be committed to the city Jail until such fine and costs are paid, not to exceed sixty days.
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    2 Ballinger's Annotated Codes and Statutes of Washington: Showing All Statutes in Force, Including the Session Laws of 1897, at 1956 (1897)
    (1897)
    § 7082: Every person who shall, in a manner likely to cause terror to the people, exhibit or flourish, in the streets of an incorporated cit or an unincorporated town, any dangerous weapon shall be guilty of a misdemeanor[.] § 7083: Every person who shall, in a rude, angry, or threatening manner, in a crowd of two. or more persons, exhibit any pistol, bowie knife, or other dangerous weapon, shall, on conviction, be sentenced to imprisonment not exceeding one year and a fine of less than $500.