North Dakota
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North Dakota
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Item type:Item, Ordinances, ch. 1, tit. 1, § 3, THE BOTTINEAU PIONEER, Dec. 13, 1888, at 4 (Bottineau, North Dakota)(1888)Any person found armed within the corporate limits of the village of Bottineau with a dirk, dagger, sword, pistol or pistols, or other offensive or dangerous weapons, without reasonable cause to fear an assault or other injury or violence to his person or to his family or property, shall, upon conviction before said justice, be punished by a fine not exceeding ten dollars, or by imprisonment in the village jail not exceeding term of thirty days.Item type:Item, 1877 Dakota Terr. Rev. Codes 798(1877)Penal Code, ch. 39, § 495: Every person who willfully discharges any species of firearms, air-gun or other weapon, or throws any other missile in any public place, or in any place where there is any person to be endangered thereby, although no injury to any person shall ensue, is guilty of a misdemeanor.Item type:Item, 1883 Dakota Terr. Rev. Code 684(1883)Penal Code, § 457: Prohibited the concealed carry of any fire-arms or any sharp or dangerous weapon usually employed in attack or defense of the person. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor.Item type:Item, 1877 Dakota Terr. Rev. Codes 794, § 456(1877)Penal Code, ch. 38, § 456: Prohibited the carry of any slungshot or weapon of similar kind. Violators guilty of a felony.Item type:Item, 1931 N.D. Laws 305-06(1931)Ch. 178, §§ 1-2: Prohibited selling, giving, loaning, furnishing, or delivering a machine gun, submachine gun, automatic rifle, or bomb (without a license). Punishable by imprisonment up to 10 years and/or fine up to $3,000.Item type:Item, 1925 N.D. Laws 216-17(1925)Ch. 174, § 2: Committing Crime When Armed. If any person shall commit, or attempt to commit, a crime when armed with a pistol or revolver, and has no permit to carry the same, he may be punished by imprisonment for not more than ten years, in addition to the punishment provided for the crime. Such imprisonment, if not exceeding one year, to be in the County jail, and if exceeding one year to be in the State Penitentiary.Item type:Item, 1877 Dakota Terr. Rev. Codes 771(1877)Penal Code, ch. 23, § 294: Duel Defined. A duel is any combat, with deadly weapons, fought between two persons by previous agreement or upon a previous quarrel. § 295. Punishment for Fighting. Every person guilty of fighting any duel, although no death or wound ensues, is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding ten years.Item type:Item, 1905 N.D. Laws 103(1905)Ch. 62, art. 4, § 47, pt. 50: To regulate and prevent the storage of gunpowder, tar, pitch, resin, coal oil, benzine [sic], turpentine, hemp, cotton, nitroglycerine, petroleum or any of the products thereof, and other combustible or explosive material[.]Item type:Item, 1899 N.D. Rev. Codes 1533-34, Penal Code, ch. 72, § 7, pt. 5.(1899)Every person who either . . . at any time kills or shoots any wild duck, goose, crane or brant with a swivel gun or other guns except such as is commonly shot from the shoulder, or in hunting such birds makes use of any artificial light or battery . . . Is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any justice of the peace of the county, is punishable by a fine of not exceeding ten dollars for each of the birds mentioned in subdivisions 1, 2, 3, or 4 of this section, so shot or killed or nest or eggs so destroyed[.]Item type:Item, 1915 N.D. Laws 225(1915)Ch. 161, § 67: Prohibited noncitizens from owning or possessing any shotgun or rifle; violators subject to fine, imprisonment, confiscation of weapon.Item type:Item, 1901 N.D. Laws 133-34(1901)Ch. 70, § 1: Every person who either . . . 5. Shall at any time catch or kill any of the birds permitted to be killed by this act at any time in any other manner than by shooting them with a gun held at the shoulder by a person discharging the same; or 6. Shall at any time set, lay or prepare any traps, snare, net, bird line, medicated, drugged or poisoned food or grain, or swivel gun or any contrivance or device whatever with intent to catch, take, or kill any of the birds in this act mentioned, whether the same are caught or not . . . is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any justice of the peace of the county, is punishable by a fine of not exceeding ten dollars . . . for each violation of subdivisions 5 or 6 of this section[.]Item type:Item, 1923 N.D. Laws 380-83(1923)Ch. 266, § 2: Commiting Crime When Armed. If any person shall commit or attempt to commit a crime when armed with a pistol or revolver, and having no permit to carry the same, he shall be in addition to the punishment provided for the crime, be punished by imprisonment for not less than ten years.Item type:Item, 1919 N.D. Laws 173-74(1919)Ch. 134, § 8: Any person traveling in any manner in any part of this state off the public highway, outside the immediate bounds of the inhabited parts of any village, town or city in possession of any kind of a shot gun, with or without a dog or dogs commonly used or kept for the purposes of hunting any game birds mentioned in this Act, from the first day of July to the fifteenth day of September (both inclusive) each year, shall be presumed to have violated or attempted to so violate the provisions of this Act as to unlawful hunting, shooting or taking of game birds, as mentioned in this Act, the hunting, taking, or shooting of which is prohibited during said time.Item type:Item, 1915 N.D. Laws 96(1915)Ch. 83, §§ 1-3, 5: Prohibited the concealed carrying of any instrument or weapon usually known as a blackjack, slungshot, billy, sandclub, sandbag, bludgeon, metal knuckles, or any sharp or dangerous weapon, any gun, revolver, pistol, or "other dangerous fire arm," nitroglycerin, dynamite, or any other dangerous or violent explosive.Item type:Item, 1909 N.D. Laws 203(1909)Ch. 165, § 1: No body of men, other than the regularly organized corps of the national guard and militia and the troops of the United States, shall associate themselves together as a military company or organization, or parade in public with firearms in any city or town of this state.Item type:Item, 1895 N.D. Rev. Codes 1299, Penal Code, ch. 43, § 7358(1895)Every person who willfully discharges any species of firearm, air gun or other weapon or throws any missile in any public place or in any place where there is any person to be endangered thereby, although no injury to any person shall ensue, is guilty of a misdemeanor.]Item type:Item, 1921 N.D. Laws 173(1921)Ch. 97, § 13: Provided, however, that if the evidence in such case convinces the court that the person convicted of transporting intoxicating liquors in violation of this Act, was in charge of and used any wagon, buggy, automobile, water or aircraft, or other vehicle or conveyance not owned by him, or without permission of the owner, or when such vehicle or conveyance so sued was mortgaged property, or if there be in or upon such conveyance so used or upon any person therein any firearms, or guns, he shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than six months and not more than five years.Item type:Item, 1907 N.D. Laws 179(1907)Ch. 124, § 1: Any person who with intent to commit any crime, breaks into or enters a building and commits or attempts to commit a crime by the use of nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gunpowder or any other high explosive, is guilty of a felony. Any violation of this act is punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary of this state for not less than twenty years, and not more than forty years.Item type:Item, 1895 N.D. Rev. Codes 1289, Penal Code, ch. 40, § 7290(1895)Every person who makes or keeps gunpowder, saltpeter, gun-cotton, nitroglycerine or dynamite or any compound of the same, or any fulminate or substance which is intended to be used by exploding or igniting the same, in order to produce a force to propel missiles or to rend apart substances, within any city, town or village, and any person who carries any of such explosives through the streets thereof, in any quantity or manner prohibited by law or by any ordinance, by law or regulation of said city, town or village, is guilty of a misdemeanor.Item type:Item, 1895 N.D. Rev. Codes 1259, Penal Code, ch. 18, § 7094(1895)Setting Spring Gun, Trap or Device. Every person who sets any spring or other gun or trap or device operating by the firing or exploding of gunpowder or any other explosive, and leaves or permits the same to be left, except in the immediate presence of some competent person, shall be deemed to have committed a misdemeanor; and the killing of any person by the firing of a gun or other device so set shall be deemed to be manslaughter in the first degree.Item type:Item, 1891 N.D. Laws 193-94(1891)Ch. 70, § 1: Prohibited the setting of any gun or gun trap to be discharged at certain animals.Item type:Item, 1895 N.D. Rev. Codes 1293, Penal Code, ch. 40, §§ 7312-13(1895)Prohibited the carrying of any slungshot or similar weapon, and the concealed carrying of any firearm or any "sharp or dangerous weapon."