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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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Item type:Item, Del Cary Smith, Ordinances of the City of Port Townsend 25 (1890)(1890)Sections 3-5 prohibited carrying concealed weapons, brandishing firearms or other deadly weapons, and challenging another to fight (dueling).Item type:Item, Ordinance No. A-17, § 2, Wilbur Town Council (1894)(1894)If any person shall within the corporate limits of the Town of Wilbur, fire or discharge any gun, rifle, fowling piece, pistol or any other firearm, they shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding twenty five dollars ($25.00) together with the cost of prosecution.Item type:Item, Ordinance No. A-17, § 1, Wilbur Town Council (1894)(1894)If any person shall carry upon his person any concealed weapons, consisting of either a revolver or pistol or other fire arms, or any knife (other than an ordinary pocket knife), or any dirk or dagger, slung shot or metal knuckles, or any instrument by the use of which injury could be inflicted upon the person or property of another, within the corporate limits of the Town of Wilbur, they shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than five (5) dollars nor more than One hundred dollars ($100.00) or imprisoned in the town calaboose not more than thirty (30) days, or by both such fines and imprisonment in the discretion of the court, provided that this section shall not apply to police officers and other persons whose duty it is to execute process or warrants, or make arrests.Item type:Item, Ordinances of the City of Tacoma, Washington 334 (Albert R. Heilig ed., 1892)(1892)Classified carrying, brandishing, or otherwise using or attempting to use certain deadly weapons, intentionally displaying or using a deadly weapon against another person, and discharging firearms or bombs within city limits as misdemeanors. Police could arrest violators without warrants, and convictions carried fines up to $100.Item type:Item, Tacoma Revised Charter and Ordinances, Ordinance No. 1183, §§ 1-2 (1898)(1897)No person within the limits of the city of Tacoma shall use, or attempt ot [sic] use, the instrument or contrivance commonly known as a slingshot, used for the purpose of throwing or propelling stones.Item type:Item, Ordinances of the City of Tacoma, Washington 333-34 (Albert R. Heilig ed., 1892)(1892)Prohibited the carrying of a concealed revolver, pistol or other fire arms or any knife (other than an ordinary pocket knife) or any dirk or dagger, slingshot or metal knuckles, or any instrument by the use of which injury could be inflicted upon the person.Item type:Item, Ordinance No. 79, § 1, Adams County News, Jun. 14, 1899, at 2(1899)Declared that all persons who carry concealed weapons, Brandish such weapons, carry weapons with intent to do bodily injury, and those who discharge firearms within the city limits are disorderly personsItem type:Item, The Municipal Code of the City of Spokane, Washington 309-10 (Rose M. Denny ed., 1896)(1896)No. A544, § 1: Prohibited the carrying of a concealed revolver, pistol or other fire-arms, or any knife (other than an ordinary pocket knife) or any dirk or dagger, sling-shot or metal knuckles, or any instrument by the use of which injury could be inflicted upon the person or property. punishable by fine of $25-100, cost of prosecution, and imprisonment until fines/costs are paid.Item type:Item, Ordinances No. 14, § 4, & No. 16, §§ 1-2, Prosser Town Council (1899)(1899)If any two or more persons, who shall, by mutual consent or agreement, fight together in any public place in said town, shall be deemed guilty of an affray, and, on conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars. Also prohibited the discharge of firearms in the corporate limits of the town of ProsserItem type:Item, Ordinance No. 11-An Ordinance Concerning Offenses and Disorderly Conduct, § 27, Ilwaco Town Council (1891)(1891)Any person or persons who shall fire off or discharge any ordinance gun, pistol. rifle or other fire-arms within the Town of Ilwaco shall upon conviction thereof before the Police Court pay a fine of not less than One nor More than One Hundred Dollars. Provided that the Mayor with the consent of the majority of the Committee on Health and Police may permit upon National holidays and other days and other days of public celebration the same which permit shall designate the time and locality of firing.Item type:Item, Ordinance No. 11-An Ordinance Concerning Offenses and Disorderly Conduct, § 7, Ilwaco Town Council (1891)(1891)Any person or persons who shall draw any species of firearms or any dirk, dagger or knife or any other dangerous or deadly weapon upon the person of another within the corporate limits of the Town of Ilwaco, shall upon conviction thereof before the Police Court be fined not less than Twenty ($20) dollars nor more than One Hundred ($100)2 dollars or by imprisonment in the Town jail not less than Ten (10) days nor more than Twenty (20) days or both at the discretion of the Court...Item type:Item, Ordinance No. 11-An Ordinance Concerning Offenses and Disorderly Conduct, § 34, Ilwaco Town Council (1891)(1891)If any person or persons shall use or caused to be used or encouraged the use of any bean-shooter. air-gun, cross-bow or other contrivance or invention used in shooting or throwing beans, stones pebbles, bullets, shot or other substance or thing in or upon any street, park, lane, alley or other public place in the Town shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof before the Police Court shall be fined not less than Two nor more than Forty $Dollars...Item type:Item, Ordinance no. 11-An Ordinance Concerning Offenses and Disorderly Conduct, § 51, Ilwaco Town Council (1891)(1891)If any person shall carry consealed or about his person or carry upon his person while in a state of intoxication, or while under the influence of alcoholic liquors any pistol, revolver, dirk, dagger, slungshot, knuckles of metals or other deadly weapons shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof before the Police Court shall be fined not less than Five nor more than One Hundred dollars. Provided that nothing being contained shall prevent a police officer or any officer or person whose duty it is to execute process or warrants or to suppress breaches of the peace or to make arrests from carrying such weapons in the necessary discharge of his duty.Item type:Item, Del Cary Smith, Ordinances of the City of Port Townsend 27 (1890)(1890)Div. 3, § 15: Whoever shall fire or discharge any cannon, gun, pistol revolver or any firearm of any description, or shall fire, or explode or set off any squib, firecracker, torpedo or other thing containing powder or other explosive material, without permission from the Mayor or common council so to do, within the city limits, shall, on conviction, be punished by a fine of not less than five nor more than twenty dollarsItem type:Item, 2 Ballinger's Annotated Codes and Statutes of Washington: Showing All Statutes in Force, Including the Session Laws of 1897, at 1957 (1897)(1897)§ 7085: That it shall be unlawful for any person, corporation or association of persons, or agents of any person, or member, agent or officer of any corporation or association of persons, to organize, maintain or employ an armed body of men in this state for any purpose whatever; and all parties so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanorItem type:Item, 2 Ballinger's Annotated Codes and Statutes of Washington, Showing All Statutes in Force, Including the Session Laws of 1897, at 1956-57 (1897)(1897)§ 7084: Prohibited the carrying of a concealed revolver, pistol, or other fire-arms, or any knife, (other than an ordinary pocket knife), or any dirk or dagger, sling-shot, or metal knuckles, or any instrument by the use of which injury could be inflicted upon the person or property of any other person. Punishable by fine of $25-100 and/or imprisonment for 30 days.Item type:Item, An Ordinance Relating to Offenses and Disorderly Conduct and Repealing Ordinances no. 152, 178, & 471, Olympia City Council, Ordinance no. 523, §§ 4-5 (Washington, 1891).(1891)That any person who shall within the following limits, to-wit: Beginning at the intersection of Fifteenth and Eastside streets; thence north on line of said Eastside street to a point known as the Priest Place; thence west to a point five hundred yards west of the west shore of Budd's Inlet; thence south to the line of said Fifteenth street, and thence east to place of beginning, fire off or discharge any gun, pistol or fire arm of any kind, shall upon conviction thereof before a police justice of said city be fined in any sum not less than five nor more than twenty five 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 ten days.Item type:Item, 1896 Wash. Rev. Stat. 686, ch. 260, § 3910, pt. 5(1896)To carry on the business of manufacturing gun powder, nitroglycerine or other highly explosive substance, or mixing or grinding the materials therefor, in any building within fifty rods of any valuable building, erected at the time such business may be commenced.Item type:Item, An Ordinance Relating to Offenses and Disorderly Conduct and Repealing Ordinances no. 152, 178, & 471, Olympia City Council, Ordinance no. 523, § 2 (Washington, 1891).(1891)That any person who shall, within the limits of the City of Olympia, carry or wear under his clothes or concealed about his person, any pistol or pistols, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, cross-knuckles or any knuckles of lead, brass or other metal, bowie-knife, dirk-knife, razor or any other deadly or dangerous weapon, shall, upon conviction thereof before one of the police Justices of said city, be fined in any sum not to exceed twenty-five dollars, and default of the payment thereof, shall be committed to the city Jail until said fine and costs are paid, not to exceed ten days.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.