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Item type:Item, 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 LouisItem type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.§Item type:Item, 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 MayorItem type:Item, 1873 Mo. Laws 328(1873)An Act to Incorporate The Town Of Moberly, art. III, § 1, pt. 15: Any person who shall threaten, quarrel, challenge or fight within said city, or any person who shall be found intoxicated, who shall carry concealed deadly weapons in said city, or any person who shall be found guilty of a misdemeanor, and to define what acts shall constitute a misdemeanor.Item type:Item, Henry Smith Kelley, Laws Applicable to and Governing the City of Saint Joseph, Missouri 192 (1888)(1888)§ 3: No person shall carry on or take part in carrying on, any pistol gallery or shooting gallery, without a license therefor from said city; and the charge for such license shall be five dollars per month.Item type:Item, Columbia, Mo. Gen. Ordinances § 120 (1883)(1883)Ordinances § 120: Any person who shall willfully fire any gun or pistol, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and fined not less than five dollars for each or either offence.Item type:Item, 1873 Mo. Laws 215(1873)An Act To Amend The Charter Of The Town Of Canton . . . , § 10: The Board of Trustees shall have power and authority to . . . regulate the storage of gunpowder, tar pitch, rosin and other combustible materials[.]Item type:Item, J.H. Johnston, Revised Charter and Ordinances of the City of Boonville, Missouri 44 (1881)(1881)Art. 11, § 13: regulate the storage of gun powder and other combustible materials; and generally provide for the prevention of fires within the city.Item type:Item, An Ordinance in Revision of the Ordinances of the City of DeSoto 52 (1888)(1888)§ 217: Whenever there shall be found upon the person of anyone who has been found guilty of a breach of the peace, or of conduct calculated to provoke a breach of the peace, any slung shot, pistol, or knuckles of lead, brass, or other metal, or when upon trial, evidence shall be adduced proving that such weapons were in the possession, or on the person of anyone, while in the act or commission of the act aforesaid, such person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.Item type:Item, J.H. Johnston, Revised Charter and Ordinances of the City of Boonville, Missouri 91 (1881)(1881)No. 17, art. 1, § 6: Prohibited concealed carry of any pistol, revolver, dirk, dagger, slungshot, metallic knuckles, or other deadly or dangerous weapon or exhibit in a rude, angry, or threatening manner, or carry any such weapon while intoxicated. . Violators fined not less than five but no more than ninety dollars.Item type:Item, Columbia, Mo. Gen. Ordinances § 128 (1883)(1883)§ 128: Any person who shall be guilty of carrying concealed about his person any pistol, dirk, bowie knife, or other weapon, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not less than five dollars for every such offence.Item type:Item, An Ordinance in Revision of the Ordinances Governing the City of Kansas 264-65 (1880)(1880)Ch. 34, § 3: No person shall, in this city, wear under his clothes or concealed about his person, any pistol or revolver, except by special permission from the Mayor; nor shall any person wear under his clothes, or concealed about his person, any slung-shot, cross knuckles, knuckles of lead, brass or other metal, or any bowie knife, razor, billy, dirk, dirk-knife or dagger, or any knife resembling a bowie knife, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon. Any person, violating any provision or requirement of this section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof before the City Recorder, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollarsItem type:Item, The Supreme Court: On Carrying Concealed Weapons, in State Journal, Apr. 12, 1878(1878)Regulated conceal carrying where people may be assembled for educational, literary, or social purposes, or to any election precinct on any election day, or into any court room during the sitting of court, or into any other publica assemblage of persons met for other than militia drill or meetings called under the militia laws of the State, having concealed about his person any kind of fire arms, bowie knife, dirk, dagger, slung shot, or other deadly weapon shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.Item type:Item, 1879 Mo. Laws 90(1879)An Act To Prohibit The Discharge Of Firearms In The Immediate Vicinity Of Any Courthouse, Church Or Building Used For School Or College Purposes, § 1: Hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person in this State, except he be a sheriff or other officer, in the discharge of official duty to discharge or fire off any gun, pistol or fire-arms of any description in the immediate vicinity of any court house, church or building used for school or college purposes.Item type:Item, Mo. Rev. Stat. 854, ch. 47, § 3502 (1889)(1889)Prohibited the concealed carry of any deadly or dangerous weapon or any kind of fire-arms, Bowie-knife, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, or other deadly weapon into any church, or place where people have assembled for religious worship, or into any school room or place where people are assembled for educational, literary, or social purposes, or to any election precinct on election day, into any court-room during the sitting of court, or into any other public assemblage. Also prohibited the brandishing of any above weapons, or carrying above weapon while intoxicated. Also prohibited the transfer of the above weapons to any minor. Violators fined not less than fifty but no more than two hundred dollars, or imprisonment not less than five days but no more than six month.Item type:Item, 1874 Mo. Laws 43(1874)An Act to prevent the carrying of concealed weapons § 1: Prohibited concealed carry of any fire-arms, Bowie-knife, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, or other deadly weapon in any church, place of religious worship, school-room, assembly for educational, literary, or social purpose, election precincts on election day, or court-room while court is in session.Item type:Item, 1875 Mo. Laws 50-51(1875)An Act to prevent the carrying of weapons in public assemblies of the people, and to repeal "An Act to prevent the carrying of concealed weapons," approved March 26, 1874, § 1: Prohibited concealed carry of any fire-arms, Bowie-knife, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, or other deadly weapon in any church, place of religious worship, school-room, assembly for educational, literary, or social purpose, election precincts on election day, or court-room while court is in session, or into any other public assemblage of persons met for purposes other than militia drill or under militia law.Item type:Item, 1883 Mo. Laws 76(1883)Prohibited carrying concealed deadly or dangerous weapons into any church, place of worship, school, educational institution, place of literary purposes, place of social purposes, election precinct, court, or other public assemblage other than militia purposes.Item type:Item, Mo. Rev. Stat 224, ch. 24, art. 2, § 1276 (1879)(1879)Hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person in this state, except he be a sheriff or other officer in the discharge of official duty, to discharge or fire off any gun, pistol or fire arms of any description, in the immediate vicinity of any court house, church or building used for school or college purposes.§Item type:Item, 1877 Mo. Laws 240(1877)An Act to preserve the public peace by preventing the display of knives and other deadly weapons in the presence of one or more persons, § 1: Prohibited the brandishing, in a rude angry, or threatening manner, any firearms, Bowie-knife, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, or other deadly weapon. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, fined not less than ten but no more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not exceeding six months, or both.Item type:Item, Mo. Rev. Stat. 224, ch. 24, art. 2, §§ 1274-1278 (1879)(1879)If any person shall carry concealed, upon or about his person, any deadly or dangerous weapon, or shall go into any church or place where people have assembled for religious worship, or into any school room or place where people are assembled for educational, literary or social purposes, or to any election precinct, on any election day, or into any court room during the sitting of court, or into any other public assemblage of persons met for any lawful purpose, other than for militia drill or meetings called under the militia law of this state, having upon or about his person any kind of firearms, bowie-knife, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, or other deadly weapon, or shall, in the presence of one or more persons, exhibit any such weapon in a rude, angry or threatening manner, or shall have or carry any such weapon upon or about his person when intoxicated or under the influence of intoxicating drinks, or shall, directly or indirectly, sell or deliver, loan or barter to any minor, any such weapon, without the consent of the parent or guardian of such minor, he shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding three months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. (Laws 1874, p. 43; laws 1875, p. 50, and laws 1877, p. 240,.amended.)Item type:Item, Mo. Const. of 1875 art. II, § 17(1875)The right of no citizen to keep and bear arms in defense of his home, person, and property, or in aid of the civil power, when thereto legally summoned, shall be called into question. But nothing herein is intended to justify the practice of wearing concealed weapons.Item type:Item, 1885 Mo. Laws 140(1885)An Act to amend an act entitled "an act to amend section 1274, article 2, chapter 24 of the revised statutes of Missouri, entitled 'of crimes and criminal procedure,'" § 1: Prohibited the concealed carry of any deadly or dangerous weapon into any church, or place where people have assembled for religious worship, or into any school room or place where people are assembled for educational, literary, or social purposes, or to any election precinct on any election day, or into any court room during the sitting of court, or into any other public assemblage for militia lawful purposes. Prohibited weapons include any firearm, Bowie-knife, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, or other deadly weapon.Item type:Item, 1877 Mo. Laws 306(1877)An Act To Provide for the Organization and Government of the Militia of the State of Missouri, Repealing All Other Acts and Parts of Acts Inconsistent with This Act, art. IV, § 3: A soldier who, unnecessarily or without orders from a superior officer, comes to any parade with his firearms loaded with ball, slug or shot, or shall so load the same while on duty, or unnecessarily or without orders from a superior officer, discharge the same, when going to or returning from or upon parade, shall forfeit not less than one nor more than five dollars.Item type:Item, 1883 Mo. Laws 76(1883)An Act to Amend Section 1274, Article 2, Chapter 24 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, Entitled "Of Crimes And Criminal Procedure" § 1274: Prohibited the carrying of a concealed fire arms, Bowie knife, dirk, dagger, slungshot, or other deadly weapon to a church, school, election site, or other public setting or carrying in a threatening manner or while intoxicated. Punishable by fine of $25-200 and/or by imprisonment up to 6 months.