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Oregon
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Item type:Item, 1903 Or. Special Laws 31, An Act to Incorporate the City of Portland, ch. 3,§ art. 4, § 73, pt. 36-38(1903)To regulate or prevent the storage, manufacture, and sale of dangerous, explosive, or combustible materials, including gunpowder, dynamite, giant powder, calcium carbide, nitro-glycerine, oil, and gas, and to provide for the inspection of the same; to prevent, by all proper means, all risks of injury or damage by fire arising from negligence, or otherwise[.]Item type:Item, 1903 Or. Special Laws 106, An Act to Incorporate the City of North Bend, and to Provide a Charter Therefor . . . , § 27, pt. 23.(1903)To regulate the transfer of gunpowder, dynamite, nitro-glycerine, and other combustibles and explosives through the streets§ or alleys of the city[.]Item type:Item, Ordinance no. 26, § 6, DALLES CITY, CHARTER & GENERAL ORDINANCES (Himes the Printer 1882).(1881)§Shooting galleries shall pay a quarterly license of five dollars. Every place or building where guns or pistols are kept for shooting at targets, whether for hire or not, shall be deemed a shooting gallery under this ordinance.Item type:Item, ASTORIA, CHARTER AND GENERAL ORDINANCES, ch. 5, § 38, nos. 21 & 23 (Astorian Publishing Company 1891).(1891)§To regulate the storage and sale of gunpowder; dynamite, nitro glycerine, oil, or combustible material and to prevent by all possible means danger or risk of injury or damage thereby by fire from carelessness, negligence or otherwise. To regulate the storage of tar, pitch, rosin, lacquer, and the use of candles, lamps and other lights in stores, shops, stables, and other places, to suppress, remove and secure any fire place, stove, chimney, oven, or boiler, or other apparatus which may be dangerous in causing fire. Also provided for the regulation of concealed carry weaponsItem type:Item, Ordinance no. 1341, § 21, ASTORIA, CHARTER AND GENERAL ORDINANCES (J. S. Dellinger 1896).(1891)Any person or persons who shall fire off or discharge any ordnance, gun, pistol, rifle or other fire-arm within the City Limits of Astoria, or any fire-works or fire-crackers of any kind or description, in that portion of the City west of Salmon street, north of Wall street or Court street and east of Madison street, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,Item type:Item, The Charter of Oregon City, Oregon, Together with the Ordinances and Rules of Order 259 (1898)(1898)Prohibited the carrying of any slingshot, billy, dirk, pistol, or "any concealed deadly weapon," and the discharge of any firearm, air gun, sparrow gun, flipper, or bean shooter, unless in self-defense.Item type:Item, Act of February 14, 1887, § 3, ALBANY, CHARTER AND GENERAL ORDINANCES (C. W. Watts 1887).(1887)regulated the storage of gunpowder, discharge of firearms, and carrying of concealed firearmsItem type:Item, 1925 Or. Gen. and Special Laws 469-75(1925)it shall be unlawful for any person within this state to carry concealed upon his person or within any vehicle which is under his control or direction any pistol, revolver or other firearm capable of being concealed upon the person without having a license to carry such firearm, as hereinafter provided in section 8 hereofItem type:Item, 1933 Or. Laws 488, ch. 315, § 2(1933)Prohibited a unnaturalized person and person convicted of a felony against another person or the government from owning or possessing a pistol, revolver, other firearm, or machine gun. Punishable by imprisonment for 1-5 years.Item type:Item, ALBANY, CHARTER AND GENERAL ORDINANCES, no. 152, § 7-8 (C. W. Watts 1887).(1887)That any person or persons who shall carry any deadly or dangerous weapons of any kind whatever in a concealed manner within the corporate limits of the city of Albany, shall upon, conviction thereof before the Recorder's court be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the city jail not less than five days nor more than fifty days, or both at the discretion of the court;§Provided; That peace officers shall be exempt from the provisions of this section.Item type:Item, 1925 Or. Gen. and Special Laws 42, ch. 31, §§ 1-2(1925)Prohibited the setting of any loaded spring gun. Punishable by a fine of $100-500 or imprisonment for 30 days to 6 months. Exception for setting of trap gun to destroy burrowing rodents.Item type:Item, ALBANY, CHARTER AND GENERAL ORDINANCES, no. 152, § 39 (C. W. Watts 1887).(1887)§Each of the following shall be conclusively deemed and taken to be a deadly or dangerous weapon within the meaning of the provisions of sections 3 and 7 of this ordinance, to-wit: Any pistol, whether loaded or not, any dirk, dagger, bowie-knife, slung-shot, brass or iron knuckles; and any and all other weapons which the evidence may show to be dangerous to life or limb shall be considered and deemed to be deadly or dangerous weapons within the meaning of said section."Item type:Item, 1933 Or. Laws 489, ch. 315, §§ 3-4(1933)Prohibited possession of a machine gun. Also Prohibited carrying a concealed machine gun, pistol, revolver, or other firearm.Item type:Item, 1925 Or. Gen. and Special Laws 172-73, ch. 117, § 1.(1925)It shall be unlawful for any person over the age of twelve years, with or without malice, purposely to point or aim any pistol, gun, revolver or other firearm, within range of said firearm, either loaded or empty, at or toward any other person, except in self defense; and any person so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined in any sum not less than $10 nor more than $500Item type:Item, Ordinance no. 26, §§ 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 42, 45, & 46, GRANTS PASS, REVISED ORDINANCES OF THE CITY (Rogue River Courier Print 1894) (Approved 1889).(1889)Regulated the brandishing, possession, discharge, and concealed carry of firearms.Item type:Item, 1893 Or. Laws 79, An Act to Prevent a Person from Trespassing upon Any Enclosed Premises or Lands Not His Own Being Armed with§a Gun, Pistol, or Other Firearm, and to Prevent Shooting upon or From the Public Highway, §§ 1-3.(1893)It shall be unlawful for any person, other than an officer on lawful business, being armed with a gun, pistol, or other firearm, to go or trespass upon any enclosed premises or lands without the consent of the owner or possessor thereof. § 2. It shall be unlawful for any person to shoot upon or from the public highways. § 3. It shall be unlawful for any person, being armed with a gun or other firearm, to cause, permit or suffer any dog, accompanying such person, to go or enter upon any enclosed premises without the consent of the owner or possessor thereof; provided; that this section shall not apply to dogs in pursuit of deer or varmints.Item type:Item, 1913 Or. Laws 433, ch. 232,§§ 22.(1913)It shall be unlawful at any time in the State of Oregon to shoot or discharge any gun at any game bird or game animal from, or while upon any railroad right of way, or any public road or highway.Item type:Item, 1895 Or. Laws 95(1895)An Act for the Protection of Game, Fish and Wild Fowl of the State of Oregon, and to Provide for the Appointment of§a Fish and Game Warden, § 16. Every person who shall use any batteries or swivel or pivot-gun, or any other gun than one to be held in the hands and fired from the shoulder, either from the shore or on a boat, raft or other device, on the Columbia river, or on any other lake or river in the state of Oregon, at any time, for the purpose of shooting wild ducks, geese, swan or other water fowl, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as hereinafter provided.Item type:Item, Ordinance no. 27, §§ 17-18, GRANTS PASS, REVISED ORDINANCES OF THE CITY (Rogue River Courier Print 1894) (Approved 1889).(1889)Imposed a 10 dollar license fee on shooting galleriesItem type:Item, 1903 Or. Spec. Laws 34, An Act to incorporate the city of Portland, ch. 3, art. 4, § 73, pt. 56.(1903)To prohibit the carrying of deadly or dangerous weapons in a concealed mannerItem type:Item, 1913 Or. Laws 497, ch. 256, §§ 1-2(1913)§It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to display for sale at retail any pocket pistol or revolver or to sell at retail, barter, give away or dispose of the same to any person whomsoever, excepting a policeman, member of the militia or peace officer of the State of Oregon, unless the purchaser or person attempting to procure the same shall have a permit for the purpose of procuring such pocket pistol or revolver signed by the municipal judge or city recorder of the city or county judge or a justice of the peace of the county wherein such person resides. Also provided that all dealers keep a record of their salesItem type:Item, 1917 Or. Gen. and Special Laws 804, ch. 377, § 1-11(1917)No person shall carry in any city, town, or municipal corporation of this State any pistol, revolver or other firearm concealed upon his or her person, or of a size which may be concealed upon his or her person, without a license or permit therefor, issued to him or her by a chief of police or sheriff of such city, town or municipal corporation, or in such manner as may be prescribed by ordinance of such city, town or municipal corporation. This section, however, shall not apply to sheriffs and their deputies, constables, marshals, police officers or any other duly appointed peace officers, nor to any person or persons summoned by such officers to assist in making arrest or preserving the peace while said person or persons are engaged in assisting such officers; nor to duly authorized military organizations when parading, nor to members thereof when going to and from places of meeting of their respective organizations.Item type:Item, 1903 Or. Laws 309-10(1903)An Act to Regulate and Prohibit the Sale, Barter, Exchange, or Gift of Explosives, Firearms or Other Articles of a Like Kind, to Children Under the Age of Fourteen Years, and to Punish the Violation of the Provisions of this Act. §§ 1-2: It shall be unlawful to sell, exchange, barter, or give to any child, under the age of fourteen years, any explosive article or substance, other than an ordinary firecracker, containing ten grains of gunpowder; or to sell, exchange, barter, or give to any such child any firearms, or other device of a like kind, ordinarily used or ordinarily capable of being used in discharging gunpowder in a greater quantity than ten grains; and it is herby made unlawful in any event to sell, exchange, barter, or give to any child, under the age of fourteen years, any instrument or apparatus, the chief utility of which consists in the fact that it is used, or is ordinarily capable of being used, as an article or device to increase the force or intensity of such explosive, or to direct or control the discharge of any such explosiveItem type:Item, 1907 Or. Laws 292, ch. 149,§§ 1.(1907)If any person shall break and enter any building in the night time with intent to commit a crime therein, and shall in the commission of or attempt to commit such crime, use or attempt to use nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gunpowder or other high explosive, such person shall be deemed guilty of burglary with explosives, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than five years nor more than forty years.Item type:Item, 1893 Or.§Laws 29-30, An Act to Punish the Pointing of Firearms at a Human Being, § 1.(1893)It shall be unlawful for any person over the age of sixteen years, with or without malice, purposely to point or aim any pistol, gun, revolver, or other firearm, within range of said firearm, either loaded or empty, at or toward any other person, except in self-defense. And any person so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than ten dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not less than ten days nor more than six months, or both.Item type:Item, 1901 Or. Laws 221(1901)An Act to Provide for the Preservation and Protection of§Forests, Game, Wild Fowls, Song Birds, Trout, and Other Game Fish . . . , § 11. It shall be unlawful to use any battery, swivel or pivot gun, or other gun than one to be held in the hands and fired from the shoulder, either form the shore or on a boat, raft or other device, on the Columbia River, or any lake or river in the State of Oregon, at any time for the purpose of shooting wild ducks, geese, swan or other water fowl.Item type:Item, 1885 Or.§Laws 263-64, An Act to Incorporate the City of Junction and Repeal An Act Entitled "An Act to Incorporate the City of Junction;" approved October 20, 1872, § 6.(1885)[The] Mayor and common council . . . shall have exclusive power within the corporate limits of said city§. . . to regulate . . . the discharge of firearms or other preparation of gunpowder or combustibles of any kind[.]Item type:Item, 1885 Or. Laws 33, An Act to Prevent Persons from Carrying Concealed Weapons and to Provide for the Punishment of the Same, §§ 1-2(1885)Prohibited the concealed carry of any revolver, pistol, or other firearm, or any knife, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, or metal knuckles, or any instrument which could inflict injury upon another. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, fined not less than ten dollars but no more than two hundred dollars, and/or jailed not less than five days but no more than one hundred days.Item type:Item, 1887 Or. Code 977-78, tit. 2, ch. 8, § 1969 (Vol. 1)(1887)Prohibited the concealed carry of any revolver, pistol, or other fire-arm any knife, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, metal knuckles, or any instrument which could inflict injury.Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, punished by fine not less than ten but no more than two hundred dollars, or imprisonment not less than five but no more one hundred days, or both.