Texas
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Texas
This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Texas. It supports research on the state’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from Spanish and Mexican periods through the Republic of Texas, statehood, and the present.
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Item type:Item, Revised Code of Ordinances of the City of McKinney 6 (1899)(1899)Prohibited the public discharge of firearms in McKinney.Item type:Item, Theodore Harris, Charter and Ordinances of the City of San Antonio 220 (1899)(1899)Ordinances of the City of San Antonio, Ordinances, ch. 22, § 4: Prohibited drawing in a threatening manner a pistol, gun, knife, sword cane, club or any other instrument or weapon that may cause death.Item type:Item, Revised Ordinances of the City of Victoria, Texas 75 (1899)(1899)Revised Penal Ordinances: Discharging Firearms, § 1: If any person shall discharge any gun, pistol or firearm of any description on or across any public square, street or alley, or elsewhere within the corporate limits of the City of Victoria, whether the premises on or across which such fire arm is discharged be public or private he shall be fined in any sum not to exceed ten dollars.Item type:Item, Theodore Harris, Charter and Ordinances of the City of San Antonio 183-84 (1899)(1899)Banned carrying concealed or personal weapons within city limits by imposing a $25 to $200 fine, but exempted military and militia personnel, law enforcement, travelers, individuals on their own property, and those facing imminent, unlawful attacks.Item type:Item, Revised Code of Ordinances of the City of McKinney 13 (1899)(1899)Ordinance No. 20: If any person in the limits of the city of McKinney shall carry on or about his person, saddle, or in his saddle bags, any pistol, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, sword-cane, spear or knuckles made of any metal or of any hard substance Bowie knife or any other knife manufactured or sold for the purposes of offense or defense, he shall be punished by fine not less than twenty-five nor more than two hundred dollars.Item type:Item, Revised Code of Ordinances of the City of McKinney 16 (1899)(1899)Ordinance No. 26: Be it ordained by the city council of the city of McKinney: § 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person to fire or shoot any gun, pistol, firecracker or any kind of fireworks or pyrotechnics in the corporate limits of the city of McKinneyItem type:Item, Revised Code of Ordinances of the City of McKinney 5 (1899)(1899)Ordinances of the City of McKinney, Disturbance of the Peace, § 1: That if any person shall go into or near any public place, or into or near any private house and shall use loud and vociferous or obscene, vulgar or indecent language or swear or curse, or yell or shriek or expose his person or rudely display any pistol or other deadly weapon in a manner calculated to disturb the inhabitants of such public place or private house, he shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars.Item type:Item, Revised Code of Ordinances of the City of McKinney 40 (1899)(1899)That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to have or keep stored within the limits of the city of McKinney, at any one time, more than four kegs either of blasting powder or gun powder nor a greater amount of any other high explosive than is reasonably necessary for one day's business and none of the same shall be kept within the corporate limits of the city of McKinney for wholesale purposes at all.Item type:Item, An Ordinance Prohibiting the Unlawful Carrying of Arms, in Daily Democratic Statesman, May 29, 1880, at 4(1880)§§ 1-2: Prohibited the carry on or about his person, saddle, or saddle bags in the city hall any pistol, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, sword-cane, spear, brass knuckles, Bowie-knife, or other kind of knife manufactured or sold for purposes of offense or defense.Item type:Item, Ordinances of the Council of the City of Dallas 80 (1888)(1887)An Ordinance Prohibiting and Punishing the Unlawful Carrying of Arms, § 1: Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Dallas, that if any person in the City of Dallas shall carry on or about his person, saddle, or in his saddle-bags, any pistol, dirk, dagger, slungshot, sword- cane, spear, or knuckles made of any metal or hard substance, bowie knife, or any other kind of knife manufactured or sold for purposes of offense or defense, he shall be punished by fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than two hundred dollars and shall be confined in the city prison not less than twenty nor more than sixty days.Item type:Item, Charter of the City of Dallas, § 84, John F. Worley ed., 1899.(1899)The city council shall have full power and authority by ordinance to regulate, control and prohibit the carrying of firearms and other weapons within the city limits, and is hereby empowered to provide and inflict the same punishment therefor as is now or hereafter may be provided by the State law against persons unlawfully carrying weapons."Item type:Item, An Ordinance Prohibiting the Unlawful Carrying of Arms, in Daily Democratic Statesman, May 29, 1880, at 4(1880)§ 3: Any person violating §§ 1-2 above may be arrested without a warrant, and any policeman who shall fail to or refuses to arrest such person on his own knowledge or upon information, shall be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars.Item type:Item, Willson's Criminal Statutes Art. 338(1897)"Arms.-If any person in this state shall carry on or about his person , saddle, or in his saddle bags , any pistol , dirk , dagger, slungshot , sword cane, spear, or knuckles made of any metal or any hard substance , bowie knife , or any other knife manufactured or sold for purposes of offense or defense , he shall be punished by fine of not less than twenty- five nor more than two hundred dollars ."Item type:Item, 1898 Tex. Gen. Laws 234–35(1898)Ch. 118, Art. 10: That from and after the passage of this act it shall be unlawful to fire any pistol, rifle, shot gun, or other kind of fire-arms, within the limits of the town of Round Top, and any person violating this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,Item type:Item, 1897 Tex. Gen. Laws 221- 22(1897)Ch. 155, § 1: Prohibited the selling or giving to a minor a pistol, dirk, dagger, slungshot, sword cane, spear or knuckles made of any metal or hard substance, Bowie knife or any other knife manufactured or sold for the purpose of offense or defense without the consent of their parent or guardian. Punishable by fine of $25-200 and/or imprisonment for 10-30 days.Item type:Item, 1887 Tex. Gen. Laws 7(1887)Ch. 9, Art. 318: Prohibited any person from carrying on his person, saddle, or in his saddlebags, any pistol, dirk, dagger, slung shot, sword cane, spear, or knuckles made of any metal or any hard substance, Bowie knife, or any other kind of knife manufactured or sold for purposes of offense of defense.Item type:Item, 1889 Tex. Gen. Laws 33(1889)Tit. 9, Ch. 4, Art. 338: Prohibited any person from carrying any pistol, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, sword-cane, spear, or knuckles made of any metal or hard substance, Bowie knife, or any other knife manufactured or sold for purposes of offense or defense. Violators fined not less than twenty-five nor more than two hundred dollars, or imprisonment not less than ten nor more than thirty days, or both.Item type:Item, Revised Ordinances of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, at 64-65(1880)An Ordinance prohibiting the shooting off, firing or discharging of Fire-arms; the firing, exploding or setting off of Squibs, Firecrackers, Torpedoes, Roman Candles, Sky-rockets or other things containing powder or other explosive matter, or the throwing of any fire balls, or making of any bon-fires in the corporate limits of the City of Fort Worth. Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Fort Worth § 1: It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to shoot off, fire, or discharge any gun, pistol, revolver or any firearm of any description, or to fire, explode or set off any squib, firecracker, torpedo, roman candle, sky-rocket, or other thing containing powder or other explosive matter, or to throw any fire-ball or make any bon-fire in the corporate limits of this cityItem type:Item, Revised Ordinances of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, at 207(1885)Ordinance no. 157, § 1: Any person carrying concealed on or about his person any pistol, dirk, dagger, slung shot, sword cane, spear, brass knuckles, Bowie knife, or any other kind of knife manufactured or sold for the purpose of offense or defense, unless having or carrying the same on or about his person for the lawful defense of the State as a militiaman, in actual service, or as a peace officer or policeman, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished by fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars.Item type:Item, 1889 Tex. Gen. Laws 36(1889)Malicious Mischief, Ch. 40, Art. 683b: That any person who shall willfully or maliciously throw a stone or other missile or fire a gun or pistol at or into any coach or passenger car of a moving railway train, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum of not less than twenty-five dollars and not more than one thousand dollars.Item type:Item, 1889 Tex. Gen. Laws, Art. 3294(1889)An Act to Amend Militia Law, Chapter 16 [H.B. 515]: And it shall not be lawful for any body of men whatsoever, other than the regularly organized volunteer guard, to associate themselves together as a military company or organization, or to parade in public with arms in any part of the state, without the license of the governor therefor.Item type:Item, 1897 Tex. Gen. Laws 214(1897)An Act To Preserve And Protect The Wild Game, Birds, And Wild Fowl, Of The State And Provide Adequate Penalties For The Unlawful Taking, Slaughter, Sale Or Shipment Thereof, And To Repeal All Laws And Parts Of Laws In Conflict Therewith, Chap. 149, § 4: It shall be unlawful to destroy any wild geese or wild ducks by any means otherwise than by an ordinary gun, capable of being held to and shot from the shoulder, and whoever violates the provision of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars.Item type:Item, 1881 Tex. Penal Code, at 205–08(1881)Tit. 15, Ch. 16, Art. 610: Any person who shall, within this State, fight a duel with deadly weapons, or send or accept a challenge to fight a duel with deadly weapons, either within the State or out of it, or who shall act as a second, or knowingly aid or assist in any manner those thus offending, shall be deemed guilty of a felony and upon conviction shall be punished by confinement in the penitentiary not less than two nor more than five years.