Louisiana
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Louisiana
This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Louisiana. It supports research on the state’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from French and Spanish colonial periods through statehood to the present.
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Item type:Item, La. Const. of 1879 art. III(1879)Provided the right to bear arms, but authorizes the passage of laws restricting the carrying of concealed weapons.Item type:Item, 1873 La. Acts 117(1873)An Act Conferring Certain Additional Powers and Privileges on the Metairie Cemetery Association, and to Punish Trespassers,§ 1: And any person who shall willfully destroy, mutilate, deface, injure or remove any tomb, monument, gravestone, or other structure placed therein, or shall willfully destroy, cut, break or remove any tree, shrub or plant within the limits of said cemetery, or shoot or discharge any gun or firearms within said limits, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall upon conviction thereof, before any court or tribunal of competent jurisdictionItem type:Item, Levi Peirce, The Consolidation and Revision of the Statutes of the State, of a General Nature 185 (1852)(1852)When gunpowder is shipped on board of a steamboat, which shall at all times be stowed away at as great a distance as possible from the furnace, a written notification of the fact shall be placed in three conspicuous parts of the boat; and in the event of such notification not being so exhibited , then for any loss of property, or life, for which the powder shall be deemed the cause, the owner shall be liable to the shipper for the full amount of said loss or damage; and the captain, in the event of loss of life being the result of such accident, shall be adjudged guilty of manslaughter.§ 6. Any person or persons who shall ship or put on board, or cause to be shipped or put on board of any steamboat, within this State, any gunpowder, without giving notice thereof a the time of making the shipment to the master clerk of said boat, shall be liable to a penalty of two hundred dollars, which may be sued for and recovered before any court of competent jurisdiction by the owner, captain or clerk of said boat, for his or her own use and benefitItem type:Item, 1804 Ind. Acts 108,§ 4(1804)Prohibited a "slave or mulatto" from carrying or possessing a gun, powder, shot, club or other weapon and ammunition. (This is an improperly cited Louisiana Territory law, not a law of the territory of Indiana.)Item type:Item, 1870 La. Acts 159-60(1870)Sec. 73. [...] It shall be unlawful for any person to carry any gun, pistol, bowie knife or other dangerous weapon, concealed or unconcealed, on any day of election during the hours the polls are open, or on any day of registration or revision of registration, within a distance of one-half mile of any place of registration or revision of registration; any person violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor; and on conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars, and imprisonment in the parish jail not less than one month.Item type:Item, 1 John Ray, Digest of the Statutes of the State of Louisiana 387 (1870)(1870)If any person shall voluntarily engage in a duel with rapier or small sword, back sword, pistol or other dangerous weapon to the hazard of life, and death shall ensue, the survivor shall, upon conviction, suffer death; and all and every person aiding and abetting as second, agent or abettor, shall, on conviction, be punished as accessories before the fact in murderItem type:Item, 1828 La. Acts 367-68(1828)25: If any person shall challenge another, or shall accept a challenge to fight with sword, pistol, rapier or other dangerous weapon, every person so challenging or accepting such challenge, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars, and may be imprisoned not exceeding two yearsItem type:Item, 1870 La. Acts 127(1870)Persons, Trades, Professions and Occupations Subject to Taxation,§ 3, pt. 6: From each proprietor or keeper of every billiard saloon, bowling alley or pistol gallery, in which there is but one table, alley or target, twenty-five dollars; where there are two tables, alleys or targets, forty dollars; where there are more than two tables, alleys or targets, ten dollars additional on each table, alley or targetItem type:Item, 1812 La. Acts 172, 174(1813)1: Prohibited the carrying of any concealed weapon, including a dirk, dagger, knife, pistol, or any other deadly weapon.Item type:Item, Albert Voorhies, Revised Laws of Louisiana 161 (1884)(1884)949: When gunpowder is shipped on board of a steamboat it shall be stored away at as great a distance as possible from the furnace, and a written notification of the fact shall be placed in three conspicuous parts of the boat; and in the event of such notification not being so exhibited, then for any loss of property or life for which the powder may be deemed the cause, the owner and captain shall be liable to the penalty provided in the proceeding section.§ 950. Any person who shall ship or put on board, or cause to be shipped or put on board of any steamboat within this State, any gunpowder, without giving notice thereof, at the time of making the shipment, to the master or clerk of said boat, shall be liable to a penalty of two hundred dollarsItem type:Item, 1 Henry A. Bullard & Thomas Curry, A New Digest of the Statute Laws of the State of Louisiana 252 (1842)(1842)59: Prohibited the carrying of " any concealed weapon, such as a dirk, dagger, knife, pistol, or any other deadly weapon." Punishable by fine of $20-50.Item type:Item, 1855 La. Acts 148(1855)Ch. 120: Prohibited the concealed carrying of "pistols, bowie knife, dirk, or any other dangerous weapon." Violators fined not exceeding one thousand dollars or no more than three months imprisonment.Item type:Item, 2 John Ray, Digest of the Statutes of the State of Louisiana 190 (1870)(1870) Test37. [SEC 38.] A soldier, who unnecessarily or without order from a superior officer, comes to any parade with his musket, rifle or pistol loaded with ball, slug or shot, or so loads the same while on parade, or unnecessarily or without order from a superior officer, discharges the same when going to, returning from, or upon parade, shall forfeit not less than five nor more than twenty dollars, to be recovered before any court of competent jurisdiction upon complaint of the clerk, one-half to his use and one-half to the use of the Commanding officer.Item type:Item, Treaty Between the United States of America and the French Republic, Art. III, Apr. 30, 1803, 8 Stat. 202, T. S. No. 86(1803)Granted the inhabitants of the ceded territory all rights, advantages, and immunities of a full US citizen.