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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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    1881 Wash. Sess. Laws 121-22
    (1881)
    An Act to Incorporate the City of Port Townsend, ch. 2, § 21: The City of Port Townsend has power to prevent injury or annoyance from anything dangerous, offensive, or unhealthy, and . . . to regulate the transportation and keeping of gunpowder, or other combustibles, and to provide or license magazines for the same[.]
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    1881 Wash. Sess. Laws 76, An Act to Confer a City Govt. on New Tacoma, ch. 6, § 34, pt. 15
    (1881)
    Authorized New Tacoma to regulate transporting, storing, or selling gunpowder, giant powder, dynamite, nitroglycerine, or other combustibles without a license, as well as the carrying concealed deadly weapons, and the use of guns, pistols, firearms, firecrackers.
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    1881 Wash. Sess. Laws 93, An Act to Incorporate the City of Dayton, chap. 2, § 20.
    (1881)
    The city of Dayton shall have power to prevent injury or annoyance from anything dangerous, offensive, or unhealthy, and . . . to regulate the transportation, storing and keeping of gunpowder and other combustibles and to provide or license magazines for the same[.]
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    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.
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    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.