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, 1901 Tex. Gen. Laws 53-54(1901)Special Session, An Act to Incorporate the City of Fort Worth and to Grant a New Charter to Said City, Ch. 7, § 140: The city council shall also have and possess the following express powers. . . To prohibit and restrain, or to regulate the firing of firecrackers, guns and pistols . . .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, 1901 Texas Spec. Laws 74(1901)§§ 169–170: The city council may also regulate or prohibit and prevent the carrying on of work and manufactures that are dangerous in promoting or causing fires, and may prohibit the building or erection of cotton presses and sheds, or may restrict the same to such limits as are prescribed by ordinance; and may regulate or prohibit and prevent the use of fireworks and firearms, or the keeping and management of houses or other structures or places for storing gunpowder, dynamite, or other combustible, explosive, or dangerous material or substances within the city, and may regulate the keeping and conveying of the same.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, 1919 Tex. Gen. Laws, at 297-98(1919)An Act to Preserve, Propagate, Distribute, and Protect the Wild Game, Wild Birds, Wild Fowl of the State . . . , Ch. 157, § 42: It shall be unlawful for any citizen of this State to hunt outside of the county of his residence with a gun without first having procured from the Game, Fish and Oyster Commissioner or one of his deputies or from the County Clerk of the County in which he resides a license to hunt, and for which he shall pay to the officer from whom he secures such license the sum of two ($2.00) dollars. . . Any person hunting any game or birds protected by the laws of the State, and who shall refuse to show his license herein provided for to any sheriff . . . on demand shall be deemed guilty of a violation of the provisions of this law, and any person violating any of the provisions of this Section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in a sum of not less than ten (10.00) dollars nor more than one hundred (100.00) dollars.Item type:Item, 1933 Tex. Gen. Laws 219-20(1933)1st Called Sess., An Act Defining "Machine Gun" and "Person"; Making It an Offense to Possess or Use Machine Guns. . . , Ch. 82, §§ 1-4, 6: Prohibited possession of a machine gun; punishable by imprisonment up to 10 years. Prohibited selling, leasing, giving, bartering, exchanging, or trading a machine gun; punishable by imprisonment for 2 months to 10 years.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, 1907 Tex. Gen. Laws 210(1907)An Act Defining "Burglary with Explosives," Prescribing Penalty for the Commission Thereof, and Declaring an Emergency, §§ 1-2: Any person who shall commit burglary as defined by the Penal Code of this State, and in the commission of the offense uses nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gunpowder or other high explosives, shall be deemed guilty of burglary with explosives.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, 1909 Tex. Spec. Laws 270(1909)Ch. 7, § 18: Power to prevent and suppress riots, affrays, noise, breach of the peace, assaults, disturbances or disorderly assembly in any public or private place within the limits of said city, and to provide punishment therefor; to prohibit and restrain the firing of guns, and pistols in the city limits, and to prohibit and restrain the carrying of pistols.Item type:Item, 1901 Tex. Gen. Laws 300(1901)An Act to amend Article 336 Chapter 3, Title IX of the Penal Code of the State of Texas, relating to affrays and disturbance of the peace: If any person shall discharge any gun, pistol or firearms of any description, or shall discharge any cannon cracker or torpedo on or across any public square, street or alley in any city, town or village, or in any street, or within one hundred yards of any business house, in this State, he shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars.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, 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.