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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.

  • Legal sources: statutes and session laws, administrative code, attorney general opinions, appellate decisions, and select municipal ordinances.
  • Historical materials: newspapers, photographs, maps, catalogs, logging, maritime, and aerospace records, and oral histories tied to Washington people and places.
  • Research outputs: technical reports, academic studies, training manuals, and curated datasets relevant to the state.

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  • Item type:Item,
    1869 Wash. Sess. Laws 202
    (1869)
    An Act Relative to Crimes and Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases, Ch. 2, §§ 22-23: § 22. Every person who shall engage in a duel with any deadly weapon, although no homicide ensue, or shall challenge another to fight a duel, or shall send or deliver any written or verbal message, purporting or intending to be such challenge, although no duel ensue, shall be imprisoned, on conviction thereof, in the penitentiary, not more than ten years, nor less than one year.
  • Item type:Item,
    1869 Wash. Sess. Laws 203
    (1869)
    An Act Relative to Crimes and Punishments And Proceedings In Criminal Cases, Ch. 2, § 31: 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.
  • Item type:Item,
    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.
  • Item type:Item,
    1869 Wash. Sess. Laws 203-04
    (1869)
    Ch. 2, § 32: 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.
  • Item type:Item,
    1861-1862 Wash. Sess. Laws 22
    (1862)
    An Act to Incorporate the City of Walla Walla, Art. 5, § 3, Pt. 22: To regulate the storage of gunpowder, pitch, tar, rosin and all other combustible materials, . . . in shops, stables and other places. To prevent, remove or secure any fire-place, stove, chimney, oven, boiler, or other apparatus which may be dangerous in causing fire.
  • Item type:Item,
    1862 Terr. of Wash. Stat. 284, ch. 2, § 30
    (1862)
    Prohibited displaying any pistol, Bowie-knife, or other dangerous weapon to a crowd of two or more persons in a rude, angry, or threatening manner.
  • Item type:Item,
    1867 Terr. of Wash. Stat. 116
    (1867)
    An Act to Incorporate the City of Vancouver, Ch. 1, § 32, pt. 16: To regulate the storage and sale of gunpowder, or other combustible material, and to provide, by all possible and proper means, against danger or risk of damage by fire arising from carelessness, negligence or otherwise.
  • Item type:Item,
    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.
  • Item type:Item,
    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.
  • Item type:Item,
    1859 Wash. Sess. Laws 107-08
    (1859)
    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.
  • Item type:Item,
    1854 Wash. Sess. Laws 80
    (1854)
    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.