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This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Virginia. It supports research on the Commonwealth’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from the colonial period through statehood to the present.

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Jurisdiction: search.filters.coverage.Virginia - NorfolkStart date: 1819

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    Ordinances of the City of Norfolk 60 (1894)
    (1894)
    Ch. 8, § 1: If any person carry about his person, hid from common observation, any pistol, dirk, bowie-knife, razor, slung-shot, or any weapon of the like kind, he shall be fined not less than twenty nor more than one hundred dollars, and such pistol, dirk, bowie knife, razor, slungshot, or any weapon of the like kind, may be seized by an officer
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    Ordinances of the City of Norfolk 115-16 (1894)
    (1894)
    Ch. 33, § 1: No person shall keep, in any house or store, any quantity of gunpowder exceeding two kegs or vessels thereof, of the weight of twenty-five pounds each,