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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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    1859 Wash. Sess. Laws 109
    (1859)
    Ch. 2, § 30: Prohibited exhibiting, in a rude, angry, or threatening manner, a pistol, Bowie knife, or other dangerous weapon. Punishable by imprisonment up to 1 year and a fine up to $500.
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    1854 Wash. Sess. Laws 80
    (1854)
    An Act Relative to Crimes and Punishments, and Proceedings in Criminal Cases, Ch. 2, § 28: Every person who shall assault and beat another with a cowhide or whip, having with him at the time a pistol, or other deadly weapon, shall on conviction thereof, be imprisoned in the county jail not more than one year, nor less than three months, and be fined in any sum not exceeding one thousand dollars.
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    1859 Wash. Sess. Laws 108-109
    (1859)
    An Act Relative to Crimes and Punishment and the Proceeding in Criminal Cases, Ch. 2, § 28: Every prison [sic] who shall assault and beat another with a cowhide or whip, having with him at the time a pistol or other deadly weapon, shall, on conviction thereof, be imprisoned in the county jail not more than one year nor less than three months, and be fined in any sum not exceeding one thousand dollars.
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    1859 Wash. Sess. Laws 107-08
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    An Act Relative to Crimes and Punishment, and Proceedings in Criminal Cases, Ch. 2, §§ 14-15, 23: § 14. If either party to a duel be killed, the survivor shall be deemed guilty of murder in the second degree. § 15. If any person shall, by previous appointment made within, fight a duel without this territory, and in so doing shall inflict a mortal wound upon any person, whereof the person so injured shall die, such person so offending shall be deemed guilty of murder in the second degree, within any county in this territory. § 23. Every person who shall accept such challenge, or who shall knowingly carry or deliver any such challenge or message, whether a duel ensue or not, and every person who shall be present at the fighting of a duel with deadly weapons, as an aid, or second, or who shall advise, encourage, or promote such duel, shall, on conviction thereof, be imprisoned in the penitentiary, not more than five years nor less than six months.
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    1854 Wash. Sess. Laws 80
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    An Act Relative to Crimes and Punishments, and Proceedings in Criminal Cases, Ch. 2, § 30: Prohibited exhibiting, in a rude, angry, or threatening manner, a pistol, Bowie knife, or other dangerous weapon. Punishable by imprisonment up to 1 year and a fine up to $500.