Georgia
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Georgia
This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Georgia. It supports research on the state’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from the colonial and territorial periods through statehood to the present.
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Item type:Item, 1902 Ga. Laws 434-35(1902)§ 16: Granted the mayor and alderman the authority to license, regulate, and control by ordinance all gun shops, dealers in guns, or pistols.Item type:Item, 1888 Ga. Laws 261(1888)Ch. 103: Required disclosure of guns, pistols, Bowie knives, and "such articles" for property tax purposes.Item type:Item, John K. Davis, The Code of the City of Cedartown 73 (1900)(1900)§ 211: Prohibited any person to draw a concealed pistol, dirk, or Bowie-knife.Item type:Item, 1924 Ga. Laws 283(1924)An Act for the Protection of Game Birds in the County of Bartow, § 2: Prohibited hunting any game bird or animal within the county limits of Bartow using an automatic or repeating shotgun. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor.Item type:Item, 1906 Ga. Laws 600-01(1906)§ 27: Granted the mayor and aldermen the power and authority to regulate and prevent the storage of gunpowder, tar, pitch . . . Or other combustible or explosive substances within city limits. Also granted the authority to regulate lights in stables, shops, or other places. Also granted the authority to regulate bonfires, fireworks, firecrackers, torpedoes, skyrockets, roman candles, firing of guns, pistols, anvils, and every kind of gaming or hunting within city limits.Item type:Item, 1889 Ga. Laws 993(1889)Ch. 640: Required disclosure of guns, pistols, Bowie knives, and "such articles" for property tax purposes.Item type:Item, 1921 Ga. Laws 95-97(1921)Taxation, § 1087: Required the Receiver of Tax Returns to have a full and correct return on the value of guns, pistols, Bowie-knives, and "such articles."Item type:Item, 1921 Ga. Laws 248(1921)Explosives, Use of Regulated, § 1: Prohibited the possession of any dynamite, nitro-glycerine, gun cotton, any other high explosive without registering with the Explosive Register.Item type:Item, 1900 Ga. Laws 201(1900)§ 15: Granted the town council to regulate the keeping and selling of dynamite, gunpowder, kerosene, and all other hazardous articles of merchandise.Item type:Item, 1927 Ga. Laws 83(1927)No. 398, § 2, § 86: Levied a tax on dealers "in or near towns or cities" who deal "in pistols or in toy pistols which shoot cartridges, or who deals in pistol cartridges, or rifle cartridges, dirks, bowie knives, or metal knucks."Item type:Item, 1910 Ga. Laws 137(1910)Shooting at Houses, Prohibited, § 1: Prohibited shooting at, toward, or into any occupied dwelling house with any gun, pistol, rifle, or any other deadly firearm.Item type:Item, 1910 Ga. Laws 134-35(1910)§ 2: Prohibited minors under the age of 18 from obtaining a license to carry. Also required license applicant to pay one hundred dollar bond.Item type:Item, 1898 Ga. Laws 60(1898)No. 106: Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, dirk, sword cane, spear, Bowie knife, other kind of knife "manufactured and sold for purpose of offense and defense," and any "kind of metal knucks."Item type:Item, 1910 Ga. Laws 134-35, reprinted in 6 Park's Annotated Code of the State of Georgia 234-36 (1915)(1910)Penal Code, Article 3, Carrying pistols without license, § 348(a)-(d): Prohibited the carry of any pistol or revolver without first obtaining a license from respective county in which the party resides. Subsections dictated how licenses were obtained and the cost of obtaining such licenses. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor.Item type:Item, 1903 Ga. Laws 71(1903)An Act for the Protection of the Officers and Employees of the Georgia Penitentiary at the Various Camps throughout the State, and for all other purposes, § 1: Prohibited entering inside the "guard-lines" with a gun, pistol, any other weapon, or any intoxicating liquors.Item type:Item, 1905 Ga. Laws 86(1905)Rocking or Shooting at or in Cars, § 1: Prohibited throwing rocks or other missiles at, towards, or into any passenger train on a railroad. Also Prohibited shooting any gun, pistol, or firearms of any kind towards or into any such car or while in any such car/ Violators imprisoned one to five yearsItem type:Item, 1897 Ga. Laws 96-97(1897)An Act to make it Unlawful for any Person to Fire any Pistol, Gun or other Firearm on any Excursion Train or at any Picnic, Except in his or her Defense, and to Prescribe a Penalty for Violating Same, and for other Purposes, § 1: Prohibited discharging any pistol, gun, or other firearm while on any excursion train or at any picnic.Item type:Item, 3 Ga. Code 147 (1896)(1892)§ 511: Prohibited throwing rocks or other missiles at, towards, or into a passenger train on a railroad. Also prohibited shooting any gun, pistol, or firearms of any kind at, towards, or into any such car. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor.Item type:Item, 1898 Ga. Laws 107-08(1898)An Act to Make it Unlawful for any Person to Wilfully and Wantonly Fire Off or Discharge any Loaded Gun or Pistol on Sunday, Except in Defense of Person or Property, § 1: Prohibited wilfully or wantonly firing off or discharging any loaded gun or pistol on Sunday.Item type:Item, 1894 Ga. Laws 21(1894)Ch. 151: Imposed $25 occupational tax on dealers of pistols, revolvers, dirks, Bowie knives, and metal knuckles.Item type:Item, 1894 Ga. Laws 325-26(1894)Treasurer's Report: Details tax revenue collected by the state of Georgia on pistol dealers from 1893 to 1894.Item type:Item, 1892 Ga. Laws 25(1892)Ch. 133: Imposed $100 occupational tax on dealers of pistols, revolvers, dirks, Bowie knives, and metal knuckles.Item type:Item, 1890 Ga. Laws 38(1890)Ch. 131, § 2, pt. 16: Imposed $100 occupational tax on dealers of pistols, revolvers, dirks, or Bowie knives.Item type:Item, 1882-83 Ga. Laws 48-49(1883)Prohibited the concealed carrying of any "pistol, dirk, sword in a cane, spear, Bowie-knife, or any other kind of knives manufactured and sold for the purpose of offense and defense."Item type:Item, 1886 Ga. Laws 26, 28(1886)Ch. 101: Required disclosure of guns, pistols, Bowie knives, and "such articles" for property tax purposes.Item type:Item, 1886 Ga. Laws 17(1886)Ch. 54: Imposed $100 occupational tax on dealers of pistols, revolvers, dirks, Bowie knives, and "pistol or revolver cartridges."Item type:Item, 1884 Ga. Laws 30(1884)Ch. 457: Required disclosure of guns, pistols, Bowie knives, and "such articles" for property tax purposes.Item type:Item, 1884-85 Ga. Laws 85(1885)Permission to Drill for Troops Other than Volunteer Forces, etc., Title 7, § 17: Prohibited any body men other than the state volunteer forces, US troops, or police to associate themselves as a military company, or to drill or parade, without a license of the governor. The license may be revoked at any time. Violators fined not exceeding ten dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding six months, or both at the discretion of the court.Item type:Item, 1888 Ga. Laws 22(1888)Ch. 123, § 2, pt. 17: Imposed $25 occupational tax on dealers of pistols, revolvers, dirks, or Bowie knives.Item type:Item, 1884-85 Ga. Laws 23(1884)Ch. 52, § 2, pt. 18: Imposed $100 occupational tax on dealers of pistols, revolvers, dirks, or Bowie knives.Item type:Item, 1882-83 Ga. Laws 48, reprinted in 6 Park's Annotated Code of the State of Georgia 232 (1915)(1882)§ 347 (§ 341) : Prohibited carrying concealed any kind of metal knucks, pistol, dirk, sword in a cane, spear, bowie-knife or any other kind of knives manufactured and sold for the purpose of offense and defense. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor.Item type:Item, 1880-81 Ga. Laws 154(1880)An Act to make Penal the Intentional Pointing, or Aiming of Fire-arms at Another, whether Loaded or Unloaded, § 1: Prohibited pointing a gun or pistol, loaded or unloaded, at another. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor.Item type:Item, 1880 Ga. Laws 151, reprinted in 6 Park's Annotated Code of the State of Georgia 236 (1915)(1880)§ 349 (§343): Prohibited pointing a gun or pistol, loaded or unloaded, at another. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor.Item type:Item, 1882-83 Ga. Laws 37(1882)Ch. 18: Imposed $25 occupational tax on dealers of pistols, revolvers, dirks, or Bowie knives.Item type:Item, 1882 Ga. Laws 131(1882)An Act to Prevent the Discharge of Fire-arms on the Public Highways of this State and within Fifty Yards of the Same; to make such an act a Misdemeanor, and Prescribe a Punishment Therefor, § 1: Prohibited wantonly discharging a gun or pistol between the "dark and daylight" on any of the public highways or within fifty yards of such public highways.Item type:Item, 1882 Ga. Code 1181-82(1882)Part V, Title I, Division IX, § 4528: Prohibited carrying any dirk, bowie knife, pistol, revolver, or any other deadly weapon in courts of justice, election grounds and precincts, places of public worship, and at any other public gathering. Part V, Title I, Division IX, § 4528(a): Any person who shall point a weapon at another shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.