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West Virginia

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to West Virginia. It supports research on the state’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from Virginia statehood partition (1863) to the present, with relevant antecedents in pre-1863 Virginia.

  • Legal sources: statutes and session laws, administrative code, attorney general opinions, appellate decisions, and select municipal ordinances.
  • Historical materials: newspapers, photographs, maps, catalogs, frontier, Civil War, mining and industrial records, law-enforcement collections, and oral histories tied to West Virginia people and places.
  • Research outputs: technical reports, academic studies, training manuals, and curated datasets relevant to the state.

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    W.Va. Acts 14, 24.
    (1899)
    Act of Feb 16, 1899, ch. 4, § 28: To regulate the keeping of gun powder and other inflammable or dangerous substances; to provide for the regular building of houses or other structures
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    1891 W. Va. Code 915-16
    (1891)
    Ch. 148, § 7: If a person carry about his person any revolver or other pistol, dirk, bowie knife, razor, slung shot, billy, metallic or other false knuckles, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon of like kind or character, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and fined not less than twenty-five nor more than two hundred dollars, and may, at the discretion of the court, be confined in jail not less than one nor more than twelve months; and if any person shall sell or furnish any such weapon as is hereinbefore mentioned to a person whom he knows, or has reason, from his appearance or otherwise, to believe to be under the age of twenty-one years, he shall be punished as hereinbefore provided
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    1890 W. Va. Acts 173
    (1890)
    Ch. 14: And it shall be unlawful for any person by the use of any swivel or pivot gun, or any other than the common shoulder gun, or by the aid of any push boat, or sneak boat, used for carrying such gun, to catch, kill, wound or destroy, or to pursue with such intent upon any of the waters, bogs . . . or any cover to which wild fowl resort within this State, any wild goose, wild duck or brant.