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Jurisdiction: search.filters.coverage.Missouri - Saint LouisStart date: 1860

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    St. Louis, Mo., Rev. Ordinances no. 4868, art. 2, § 8 (1861)
    (1861)
    Misdemeanors, § 8: Hereafter it shall not be lawful for any person to wear under his clothes, or concealed about his person, any pistol, or colt, or slung-shot, or cross-knuckles, or knuckles of lead, brass, or other metal, or bowie knife, dirk knife, or dirk, or dagger, or any knife resembling a bowie knife, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon, within the city of Saint Louis
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    St. Louis, Mo., Rev. Ordinances ch. 16, art. 2, §§ 688-689 (1887)
    (1887)
    Not exceeding five pounds of gunpowder shall be allowed to be kept by any person or persons in any store, dwelling, building, or other place within the city, except that retailers or venders of gunpowder in small quantities may for that purpose keep any quantity not exceeding thirty pounds; provided, that the same shall also be kept in tin or metal canisters or stone jars, with good and closely fitted and well secured covers thereon; provided, also, that those parties now having magazines within the limits of the city are hereby allowed to store in such magazines such quantities of gunpowder as may be necessary for their business; provided, further, that giant powder, dynamite and nitro-glycerine shall not be stored in any place within the limits of the city, except in magazines as now located. § 689. Every retailer of gunpowder, giant powder, dynamite, nitro-glycerine or blasting powder, shall place on the building containing the same, over, or at the side of the front door thereof, a sign with the words "Powder for sale," printed thereon, in letters at least three inches in height, and shall notify the commissioner of public buildings in which portion of said store the said powder or powders are placed, which notice shall be kept of record in the said commissioner's office.
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    St. Louis, Mo., Rev. Ordinances no. 17188, art. 4, § 1054 (1895)
    (1887)
    §No person shall sell to any child under the age of sixteen years, without the written consent of the parents or guardian of such child, any cartridge of fixed ammunition of which any fulminate is a component part, or any gun, pistol or other mechanical contrivance arranged for the explosion of such cartridge, or of any fulminate.
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    St. Louis, Mo., Rev. Ordinances ch. 29, art. 11, § 3 (1881)
    (1881)
    Prohibited carry of any sling, cross bow and arrow, air gun, or other contrivance for ejecting, discharging or throwing any fragment, bolt, arrow, pellet, or other missile of stone, metal, wood, or other substance capable of inflicting injury or annoyance in any street, alley, walk, or park of the city of Saint Louis.
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    Saint Louis, Mo., Municipal Code ch. 18, art. 2, § 1471 (1892)
    (1892)
    it shall not be lawful for any person to wear under his clothes, or concealed about his person, any pistol or revolver, colt, billy, slung shot, cross knuckles, or knuckles of lead, brass or other metal, bowie knife, razor, dirk knife, dirk, dagger, or any knife resembling a bowie knife or any other dangerous or deadly weapon, within the City of Saint Louis, without written permission from the mayor
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    David H. MacAdam, Tower Grove Park of the City of Saint Louis, Rules and Regulations 117 (1883)
    (1883)
    § 4: All persons are forbidden . . . 4. To carry firearms or to throw stones or other missiles within it.§
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    St. Louis, Mo., Rev. Ordinances ch. 20, art. 2, § 9 (1871)
    (1871)
    Ordinances of the City of Saint Louis, Misdemeanors, § 9: Hereafter it shall not be lawful for any person to wear under his clothes, or concealed about his person, any pistol, or revolver, colt, billy, slung shot, cross knuckles, or knuckles of lead, brass or other metal, bowie knife, razor, dirk knife, dirk, dagger, or any knife resembling a bowie knife, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon, within the City of Saint Louis, without written permission from the Mayor