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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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Start date: 1870Category: search.filters.subject.CARRY - CERTAIN PUBLIC PLACES

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    Code of the City of Staunton 115 (1910)
    (1910)
    Ch. II, § 135 p. 115: Prohibited carrying of firearms, throwing stones, or other missiles within the park.
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    The Code of the City of Staunton 115 (1910)
    (1910)
    All persons are forbidden to enter or leave the park except by the gateways; to climb or walk upon any of the walls or fence, to turn cattle, horses, goats or swine into the park; to carry firearms, or to throw stones or other missiles within it; to cut, break, or in any way injure or deface the trees, benches, shrubs, plants, turf, or any of the buildings, fences, bridges, or other constructions upon the park; or to converse with, or in any way hinder those engaged in its construction.
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    1877 Va. Acts 305
    (1877)
    Ch. 7: Prohibited any person carrying a gun, pistol, Bowie-knife, dagger, or other dangerous weapon to a place of public worship while meeting for religious purposes. Violators fined not less than twenty dollars, and may be held without warrant for three hours by a "conservator of the peace."
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    1875 Va. Acts 102
    (1875)
    Ch. 124: Prohibited the carry of any gun, pistol, Bowie knife, dagger, or other dangerous weapon into places of public worship without sufficient cause.