Washington
Permanent URL for this collectionhttps://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/5662
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.
Cite the Firearms Research Center and the item’s handle/DOI when using materials. Rights and licensing vary by item.
Browse
15 results
Filters
Advanced Search
Filter by
Settings
Search Results
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, Charter and Ordinances of the City of Olympia: Also General Laws of Washington Territory, Relative to the Government of Incorporated Cities and Towns 80 (1886)(1886)Section 2 prohibited drawing, exhibiting, or attempting to use a deadly weapon against another person within Olympia; violations carried a $25–$50 fine. Section 3 prohibited carrying a deadly weapon concealed on one’s person within Olympia; violations carried a $5–$10 fine. Section 4 prohibited discharging any gun, pistol, or firearm within a specified area of Olympia; violations were punishable by a $5–$20 fine, 5–10 days’ imprisonment, or both.Item type:Item, An Ordinance Relating to Offenses and Disorderly Conduct, § 2, Olympia City Council (1882)(1882)Ordinance No. 152, § 2: That any persons who shall draw exhibit or attempt to use any deadly weapon within the corporate limits of the City of Olympia, upon, to or against another person, shall be liable to a fine of not more than fifty nor less than twenty-five dollars.Item type:Item, William Lair Hill, Ballinger's Annotated Codes and Statutes of Washington, Showing All Statutes in Force, Including the Session Laws of 1897, at 1956 (Vol. 2, 1897)(1881)Prohibited exhibiting a dangerous weapon in a manner likely to cause terror. Punishable by fine up to $25.Item type:Item, 1873 Wash. Sess. Laws 186(1873)Ch. 2, § 34: 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. Violators fined up to five hundred dollars and up to one year in jail.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, 2 Ballinger’s Annotated Codes and Statutes of Washington 1956 (1897)(1881)§ 7082: Prohibited exhibiting a dangerous weapon in a manner likely to cause terror. Punishable by fine up to $25.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, 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, 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.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, 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, 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, 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.