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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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An Ordinance for the Purpose of Creating a Revenue for the Town of Lake Charles, Levying a License on Trades, Professions, Occupations, etc., § 1, para. 3, in The Lake Charles Echo, Jan. 17, 1880, at 1
(1880)
Imposed a $25 license on shooting galleries with fewer than two tables, alleys, or targets, and a $40 license on galleries with two or more tables, alleys, or targets, with an additional $2 fee per table, alley, or target after the second.
An Ordinance to Levy and Enforce Payment of an Annual License Tax, in The Lafayette Advertiser, Feb. 2, 1889, at 8
(1889)
Imposed a $5 tax on all gun and pistol establishments and shooting galleries.
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.
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 jurisdiction
Jewell's Digest of the City Ordinances, Together with the Constitutional Provisions, Acts of the General Assembly, and Decisions of the Courts Relative to the Government of the City of New Orleans 1 (1882)
(1879)
Prohibition of Weapons in Balls, Theatres, etc., Title 1-Amusements, Chapter 1-General Ordinances, Articles 1-6 : That hereafter it shall not be lawful for any person to carry a dangerous weapon, concealed or otherwise, into a theatre, public hall, tavern, picnic ground, place for shows or exhibitions, house or other place of public entertainment or amusement.
1902 La. Acts 150, in 2 Solomon Wolff, Constitution and Revised Laws of Louisiana 1718 (1904)
(1903)
Imposed a license tax of ten dollars on all wholesale dealers of pistols and rifles, and a five dollar license tax on wholesale dealers of pistol and rifle cartridges. Imposed a one hundred dollar license tax on retail dealers of pistols and rifles and a fifty dollar tax on retail dealers of pistol and rifle cartridges. Also provided that any person who shall sell pistols, rifles, pistol cartridges, or rifle cartridges without paying the license tax is guilty of a misdemeanor
Proceedings of the Board of Police of the Town of Opelousas, §§ 1-6, in The Opelousas Journal, Jun. 26, 1874, at 3 (Opelousas, Louisiana).
(1874)
to prevent the carrying concealed weapons within the corporate limits of the town of Opelousa
An Ordinance to Establish a Uniform Rate of Taxes and Licenses, in The New Orleans Crescent, December 30, 1868, at 6 (New Orleans, Louisiana).
(1869)
imposed a 50 dollar tax on pistol galleries
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.
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 murder
Ordinance no. 103, §§ 1-3, in St. Tammany Farmer, September 11, 1909, at 7, 7 (Slidell, Louisiana).
(1909)
That it shall be unlawful for any person at any time to explode, shoot any firecracker, firearms, Roman candle, or any other fireworks that may be used for the purpose of celebrating, within the corporate limits of the Town of Slidell.
1920 La. Acts 170
(1920)
An Act Defining the Crime of Burglary with Explosives and Providing the Punishment Therefor,§ 1-2: any persons who, with intent to commit crime, breaks and enters, either by day or night, any building whether inhabited or not, and opens or attempts to open any vault, safe or other secure place by use of nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gunpowder or any other explosive, shall be deemed guilty of burglary with explosives.
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 target
1912 La. Acts 505
(1912)
Twenty-fifth: To regulate the buying, caring, storing, selling and using of gun powder and fire crackers, and fireworks manufactured or prepared therefrom, and all other combustible or explosive substances, the exhibition of fireworks, the discharge of firearms and the lights, in barns, stables and other buildings, and restrain the making of bonfires at any place within the limits of the city.
John Q. Flynn Flynn's Digest of the City Ordinances, Together with the Constitutional Provisions, Acts of the General Assembly, and Decisions of the Courts Relative to the Government of the City of New Orleans 545 (1896)
(1893)
1342: It shall be unlawful for any one to sell, or lease, or give through himself or any other person, any pistol, dirk, bowie knife, toy pistol for which cartridges are used, or any other dangerous weapon which may be carried concealed, to any person under the age of eighteen years.
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 dollars
1908 La. Acts 405-06
(1908)
An Act to Protect Game Birds. . . ,§ 7: That it shall be unlawful to kill any of the birds named in this Act in the open season, noted herein by any means other than by ordinary gun capable of being held to and shot from the shoulder.
2 John Ray, Digest of the Statutes of the State of Louisiana 190 (1870)
(1870) Test
37. [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.
1918 La. Acts 132
(1918)
3: That it shall be unlawful for any person to hunt, or kill wild deer with any gun, or other firearm with any devise for deadening the sound of the explosion attached or fitted thereto, which device is commonly called a silencer.
1932 La. Acts 337-38
(1932)
No. 79,§ 1-2: Prohibited selling, loaning, giving, purchasing, possession, carrying, or transporting a machine gun.
Henry Jefferson Leovy, The Laws and General Ordinances of the City of New Orleans 257, § 635-36 (1870)
(1870)
636(5): Prohibited unlicensed shooting galleries from operating within city limits.
1890 La. Acts 39
(1890)
Ch. 46: Prohibiting the transfer of any pistol, dirk, Bowie knife, or "any other dangerous weapon, which may be carried concealed on a person to any person under the age of 21.

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