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Maine

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1929 Me. Acts 206
(1929)
An Act Defining the Crime of Burglary with Explosives and Providing the Punishment Therefor, ch. 244, §§ 1-2: § 1. Burglary with explosives, defined. Any person who, with intent to commit crime, breaks, and enters, either by day or by night, any building, whether inhabited or not, and opens or attempts to open any vault, safe or other secure place by the use of nitroglycerine, dynamite, gunpowder or any other explosive, shall be deemed guilty of burglary with explosives. § 2. Penalty. Any person duly convicted of burglary with explosives shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of not less than twenty nor more than forty years.
1909 Me. Acts 169
(1909)
An Act concerning the protection of children, ch. 166, § 2: Considered the transfer f firearms to children dangerous to the welfare of such children unless in circumstances where the child is being furnished the weapon for hunting or target shooting
1919 Me. Acts 193
(1919)
Possession of loaded shotgun or rifle in motor vehicle on highways, fields or forests prohibited; penalty: No person shall have a rifle or shotgun, either loaded or with a cartridge in the magazine thereof, in or on any motor vehicle while the same is upon any highway or in the fields or forests. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall be subject to a penalty of not more than one hundred dollars and costs for each offense or imprisonment for not more than sixty days or both said fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.
1909 Me. Laws 257
(1909)
Ch. 206, § 113-Military Parades by Unauthorized Bodies Prohibited: No body of men, other than the active 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; nor shall any city or town raise or appropriate any money toward arming, equipping, uniforming or in any other way supporting, sustaining or providing drill rooms or armories for any such body of men;
Seth L. Haarrabee, The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Portland, Maine 136 (1892)
(1892)
§ 4: No person shall sell to any child under the age of sixteen years, without the written consent of a parent or guardian of such child, any blank cartridge, or any pistol, or mechanical contrivance specially arranged or designed for the explosion of the same and any person violating the provisions of this ordinance shall be liable to a penalty of not less than fifty, and not exceeding one hundred dollars, to be recovered on complaint to the use of the City of Portland.
1909 Me. Acts 141
(1909)
An Act to prohibit the use of Firearms fitted with any device to deaden the sound of explosion, ch. 129, § 1: It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, offer for sale, use or have in his possession, any gun, pistol or other firearm, fitted or contrived with any device for deadening the sound of explosion. Whoever violates any of the provisions of this act shall forfeit such firearm or firearms and the device or silencer, and shall further be subject to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or to imprisonment not exceeding sixty days, or to both fine and imprisonment. . .
1919 Me. Acts 235
(1919)
Swivel, pivot and set gun added to prohibited devices; penalty for violation increased to $100 and costs and imprisonment for sixty days for possession, ch. 196, § 25: No person shall have in possession at any time when he is upon the wild lands, water or highways, or in the woods or fields of the state, or in any camp, lodge, or place of resort for hunters or fishermen, or in its immediate vicinity, any jacklight or light fitted for use in the hunting of game in the night time, or any swivel, pivot, or set gun...
An Act Concerning the Militia § 171, in Acts and Resolves Passed by the Forty-Fourth Legislature of the State of Maine 280 (1865).
(1865)
It shall not be lawful for any body of men whatsoever, other than the regularly organized corps of the militia, the troops of the United States, to associate themselves together as a military company or organization, or to parade in public with arms, in any city or town of this state, without the license of the governor therefor, which may at any time be revoked; nor shall it be lawful for any city or town to raise or appropriate any money toward arming, equipping, uniforming, or in any way supporting or sustaining or providing drill rooms or armories for any such bodies of men."
1821 Me. Laws 55
(1821)
§ 7: Be it further enacted, That if any person shall voluntarily engage in a duel, with rapier, a small sword, back sword, pistol, or other dangerous weapon, to the hazard of life, when no homicide shall ensue thereon; and if any person shall, by word, message, or in any other manner, challenge another to fight in a duel, as aforesaid, when no duel shall be fought thereon, every such offender, and every person who shall be knowingly a second, agent or abettor in such duel or challenge, upon due conviction of either of said offences in the Supreme Judicial Court, shall be punished as a felonious assaulter;
Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 2, ch. 26, § 24 (1871)
(1871)
Allowed municipal officers to regulate storage or transportation of gun powder. Also allowed municipal officers to enter any building with a search warrant to find concealed articles contrary to regulations..
Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 12, ch. 16, § 73 (1840)
(1837)
Prohibited the enrollment of idiots, lunatics, common drunkards, vagabonds, paupers, nor any person convicted of any infamous crime, and anyone else besides white, abled bodied, male citizens into any office of the militia.
Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 12, ch. 169, § 16 (1840)
(1821)
Prohibited going armed with any dirk, dagger, sword, pistol, or other offensive and dangerous weapon without reasonable cause to fear assault on oneself, their family, or property. Violators required to give sureties not exceeding one year.
Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 11, ch. 128, § 12 (1884)
(1883)
Whoever has in his possession a toy pistol for the explosion of percussion caps, or blank cartridges, with intent to sell it, or sells or offers to sell or give it away, shall be fined not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars, and shall be liable for all damages resulting from such selling, or giving away, to be recovered in an action on the case.
1821 Me. Laws 98
(1821)
An Act for the Prevention of Damage by Fire, and the Safe Keeping of Gun Powder, chap. 25, § 1: Prohibited any person from possessing any gunpowder, in any quantity, unless permitted by local rules and regulations.
1821 Me. Laws 685-86
(1821)
§3, Act to Provide for the Proof of Fire Arms: Required the governor to appoint inspectors of firearms who would prove barrels of new or unused firearms. Punishable by fine of $10.
Me Rev. Stat. tit. 12, ch. 164, § 4 (1841)
(1834)
If any person shall carry on the business of manufacturing gun powder, or of mixing or grinding the composition therefor, in any building within eighty rods from any valuable building, erected at the time when such business may be commenced the building, in which such business may be carried on as aforesaid, shall be deemed a public nuisance; and such person shall be liable to be prosecuted and indicted accordingly.
Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 11, ch. 130, § 10 (1884)
(1884)
Prohibited the carrying of a dirk, dagger, sword, pistol, or other offensive and dangerous weapon without reasonable cause to fear an assault.
1891 Me. Laws 156 (as amended by 1895 Me. Laws 200)
(1891)
Elias Dudley Freeman, An Act to Establish a Bounty on Seals: Laws of 1891, c. 139, p. 156, as amended by laws of 1895, c. 168, p. 200. §§ 1-2: A bounty of one dollar for each and every seal killed in the waters of this state shall be paid by the treasurer of the town in which such seal is killed, to the person exhibiting to said treasurer the nose of such seal within thirty days after said seal was killed. Such treasurer shall destroy it and shall then proceed as in sections six and seven of chapter thirty of the revised statutes. § 2. The carcasses of such seals when destroyed shall not be left derelict in any waters of the state, but shall be removed therefrom and properly disposed of by the person destroying them; provided however, that it shall be unlawful during the months of June, July, and August to destroy seal in the waters of Casco bay by shooting with rifle or other long range weapon, which might endanger human life, under a penalty for a violation of either of the provisions of this section, of fifty dollars, to be recovered upon complaint or indictment before any court of competent jurisdiction.
Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 12, ch. 169, § 16 (1840)
(1840)
Required any person going armed with any dirk, dagger, sword, pistol, or other offensive and dangerous weapon to post a surety once a complaint was filed, having cause to fear an injury or breach of the peace. Surety not to exceed one year with appeals provided.
1821 Me. Laws 352-53
(1821)
ch. 76, § 1 (1821): to cause to be staid and arrested, all affrayers, rioters, disturbers or breakers of the peace, and such as shall ride or go armed offensively, to the fear or terror of the good citizens of this State, or such others as may utter any menaces or threatening speeches;
1880 Me. Laws 212-213
(1880)
An Act to Punish Tramps, ch. 213, §§ 1-2: Any tramp who shall enter any dwelling house, or kindle any fire in the highway or on the land of another, without the consent of the owner or occupant thereof, or shall be found carrying any fire-arm or other dangerous weapon, or shall threaten to do any injury to any person, or to the real or personal estate of another, shall be punished by imprisonment at hard labor in the state prison not more than two years."
Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 12, ch. 159, § 5 (1840)
(1821)
Prohibited being armed with clubs or other weapons while in a group of twelve or more and "unlawfully, routously, riotously, or tumutluously assembled."
1821 Me. Laws 98-99
(1821)
Ch. 25, § 5: An Act for the Prevention of Damage by Fire, and the Safe Keeping of Gun Powder: Authorized local "selectmen" to search for gun powder, which they may have reason to suppose to be concealed or kept, contrary to the rules and regulations which shall be established in such town, according to the provisions of this Act, first having obtained a search warrant therefor according to law.

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