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Virginia

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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    1 William Waller Hening, Stat. at Large: Being a Collection of all the Laws of Virginia 263 (1809)
    (1643)
    "Masters of every family shall bring with them to church on Sundays one fixed and serviceable gun with sufficient powder and shott"
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    1 William Waller Hening, Stat. at Large: Being a Collection of all the Laws of Virginia 525 (1809)
    (1659)
    "That every man able to beare armes have in his house a fixt gunn two pounds of powder and eight pound of shott at least"
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    1 William Waller Hening, Stat. at Large: Being a Collection of all the Laws of Virginia 292 (1809)
    (1645)
    "all negro men and women, and all other men from the age of 16 to 60" could be drafted to carry on war against the Indians
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    1 William Waller Hening, The Statutes at Large: Being a Collection of all the Laws of Virginia 292 (1809)
    (1645)
    "all negro men and women, and all other men from the age of 16 to 60" could be drafted to carry on war against the Indians
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    1 William Waller Hening, The Statutes at Large: Being a Collection of all the Laws of Virginia 263 (1809)
    (1643)
    "Masters of every family shall bring with them to church on Sundays one fixed and serviceable gun with sufficient powder and shott"
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    1 William Waller Hening, The Statutes at Large: Being a Collection of all the Laws of Virginia 525 (1809)
    (1659)
    "That every man able to beare armes have in his house a fixt gunn two pounds of powder and eight pound of shott at least"
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    1657, Va. Acts 434
    (1657)
    Act 3: That the Lord's day be kept holy, and that no journeys be made except in case of emergent necessity on that day, that no goods be laden in boats nor shooting in guns . . . the party delinquent to pay one hundred pounds of tobacco or laid in the stocks . . .
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    1651 Va. Acts 365
    (1651)
    Articles At The Surrender Of The Country, art. 13: That all ammunition, powder and arms, other than for private use shall be delivered up, security being given to make satisfaction for it.
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    1655 Va. Acts 401
    (1655)
    Act 12: What persons or persons soever shall, after publication hereof, shoot any guns at drinking (marriages and funerals only excepted) that such person or persons so offending shall forfeit 100 lb. of tobacco to be levied by distress in case of refusal and to be disposed of by the militia in ammunition towards a magazine for the county where the offence shall be committed.
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    1642 Va. Acts 261
    (1642)
    Act 35: Be it further enacted and confirmed, for the better observation of the Sabbath and for the restraint of diverse abuses committed in the colony by unlawful shooting on the Sabbath day as aforesaid, unless it shall be for the safety of his or their plantations or corn fields or for defense against the Indians, he or they so offending shall forfeit for his or their first offense being thereof lawfully convicted . . . the quantity of twenty pounds...
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    1657, Va. Acts 437
    (1657)
    Act 13: If any planter or person shall hunt or shoot upon or within the limits or precincts of his neighbor or others' dividends without leave first obtained for his so doing and having been warned by the owner of the land, to forbear hunting and shooting as aforesaid: He or they so offending shall forfeit for every such offense four hundred pounds of tobacco . . .
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    1642 Va. Acts 263
    (1642)
    Act 41: It is enacted and confirmed that masters of every family shall bring with them to church on Sundays one fixed and serviceable gun with sufficient powder and shot upon penalty of ten pound of tobacco for every master of a family so offending to be disposed of by the churchwardens who shall levy it by distress, and servants being commanded and yet omitting shall receive twenty lashes on his or their bare shoulders, by order form the county courts where he or they shall live.
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    1642 Va. Acts 255
    (1642)
    Act 23: Be it also enacted and confirmed, that what person or persons soever shall sell or barter with any Indian or Indians for piece, powder and shot and being thereof lawfully convicted, shall forfeit his whole estate
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    1642 Va. Acts 248
    (1642)
    Act 11: Whereas the rights and interests of the inhabitants are very much infringed by hunting and shooting of diverse men upon their neighbors lands and dividends contrary to the privileges granted to them by their patents, whereby many injuries do daily happen to the great damage of the owners of the land whereon such hunting or shooting is used, It is therefore enacted and confirmed that if any planter or person shall hunt or shoot upon or within the precincts or limits of his neighbor or other divident without leave first obtained for his so doing, and having been warned by the owner of the land to forbear hunting and shooting as aforesaid, he or they so offending shall forfeit for every such offence four hundred pounds of tobacco . . .
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    1 William Waller Hening, Stat. at Large; Being a Collection of all the Laws of Virginia 441 (1823) (enacted 1632)
    (1657)
    Prohibited the giving or selling piece, powder, or shot to "any Indian," subject to imprisonment and seizure of property.