North Carolina
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North Carolina
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Item type:Item, 1901 N.C. Sess. Laws 160(1901)Pub. Laws, ch. 23, §§ 1, 2: That it shall be unlawful for any person wantonly, or in sport to shoot or discharge any gun or pistol in, or within two hundred yards or any street in, or any public road leading out of the town of Roper, in the county of Washington, for a distance of one-half mile form the place where the post-office in said town was located on the first day of January, 1901.Item type:Item, 1860-61 N.C. Sess. Laws 219-20(1860)Priv. Laws, ch. 180, § 1: Granted the town of Wilmington the authority to levy and collect taxes annually on all pistols, dirks, Bowie-knives, or sword-canes if worn about the person at any time during the year, as well as all pistol galleries.Item type:Item, 1862-1863 N.C. Sess. Laws 60(1862)Priv. Laws, Adj. Sess., ch. 49, § 9: [T]hey may prohibit and prevent by practices the riding or driving of horses or other animals at a speed greater than six miles an hour, within the city; and also the firing of guns, pistols, crackers, gun powder or other explosive, combustible or dangerous materials in the streets, public grounds, or elsewhere within the city.Item type:Item, Regulations and Ordinances, Together with a Statement of the Various Acts, Ordinances and Resolutions Concerning the Town of Salem, N.C., from 1856 to 1896, at 5 (1896)(1896)§ 7: No person shall fire a gun or pistol for the purpose of sport or amusement, nor shoot or discharge any sling shot, or other projectile unless by written consent of the Mayor. Fine Ten Dollars for Each offense]Item type:Item, 1905 N.C. Sess. Laws 547(1905)Priv. Laws, ch. 188, § 6: That the commissioners of said town shall have authority to pass all necessary by-laws and ordinances for the proper government of the town, and to enforce the same by means of suitable fines and penalties. Among the powers specifically conferred upon the commissioners are the following: . . . to prescribe conditions under which may be sold and used fire-arms of all kinds including toy guns and pistols and air-guns, brass knuckles, loaded canes, dirks, bowie and other knives used as weapons, ammunition and fire-works, not inconsistent with the general laws of the State[.]Item type:Item, 1909 N.C. Sess. Laws 777-78(1909)Priv. Laws, ch. 345, § 23, pt. 14: [O]n dealers in pistols, guns, dirks, bowie knives, sling shots, brass or metal knuckles or other like deadly weapons, in addition to all other taxes, a license tax not exceeding fifty dollars; on dealers in firecrackers, Roman candles, skyrockets, toy pistols or fireworks of any kind, a tax not exceeding fifty dollars.Item type:Item, Laws for the Government of the City of Raleigh 63 (1854)(1854)§ 6: No person shall discharge any gun or other fire-arms within any of the streets or public squares of the city, or upon any lot of the same, (excepting his own lot,) on pain of forfeiting four dollars for every such offence. Or, if the offence be committed in the night, the offender shall forfeit twenty-five dollarsItem type:Item, 1871-1872 N.C. Sess. Laws 113(1871)Priv. Laws, ch. 72, § 4: That any person who shall willfully . . . shoot or discharge any gun or other firearms within the limits thereof shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction before any justice of the peace of the county of Pasquotank, shall be fined at the discretion of the court and be moreover liable to the company for the damage done by such act.Item type:Item, 1868-69 N.C. Sess. Laws 202(1868)Priv. Laws, ch. 123, § 18: Granted the Board the power to levy and collect taxes on all pistols, except when part of stock in trade. Also on all dirks, Bowie-knives, and sword-canes if worn on the person at any time during the year. Tax not to exceed one dollar.Item type:Item, 1865-66 N.C. Sess. Laws 22(1866)Priv. Laws, ch. 7, § 64: That they may prohibit and prevent, by penalties, . . . and also the firing of guns, pistols, crackers, gun-powder or other explosive, combustible or dangerous materials in the streets, public grounds, or elsewhere within the city."Item type:Item, 1925 N.C. Sess. Laws 530(1925)Pub.-Local Laws, ch. 460, § 4: It shall be unlawful to trap for bear or to run or hunt deer with dogs or to use while hunting any gun having a "Maxim silencer" or any other device thereon that will muffle the report of such gun, nor shall any gun be used that does not produce when discharged the usual and ordinary report.Item type:Item, 1917 N.C. Sess. Laws 309(1917)Pub.-Local Laws, ch. 209, § 1: Prohibited killing quail with a gun that shoots over two times before reloading.Item type:Item, 1885 N.C. Sess. Laws 1010(1885)Priv. Laws, ch. 103, § 6: That it shall be a misdemeanor for any one to fire off a gun or pistol in the limits of the incorporation while occupied in worshipItem type:Item, 1901 N.C. Sess. Laws 338-39(1901)Priv. Laws, ch. 124, § 14.: That among the powers conferred upon the Commissioners are the following: . . . to control the manner in which dynamite, blasting powder, gunpowder and other explosives and highly inflammable and dangerous substances may be stored and sold[.]Item type:Item, 1891 N.C. Sess. Laws 775(1891)Ch. 52, § 27.: That they may prohibit the firing of any gun, pistol, fire-cracker, gunpowder, other materials or other dangerous combustibles in the streets, public grounds or elsewhere in said town.Item type:Item, 1903 N.C. Sess. Laws 154(1903)Pub. Laws, ch. 136, § 3: And it shall be unlawful for any persons or persons, either before or after they have put out decoys in the waters of Currituck Sound, to sail or row or propel a boat in any way after wild fowls in the waters of said sound for the purpose of forcing them on the wing or to shoot them with rifle or shot gun from any boat while sailing at any time.Item type:Item, 1885 N.C. Sess. Laws 382(1885)Pub. Laws, ch. 207, §§ 1-2: That nothing in section two thousand eight hundred and thirty-four of The Code shall be so construed as to prevent the farmers in Pamlico county from shooting larks, doves and partridges on their own premises, when the same are doing injury to their crops.Item type:Item, 1868-69 N.C. Sess. Laws 96, 101-102(1869)Priv. Laws, ch. 79, § 25: The commissioners may prevent by penalties the firing of guns, pistols, crackers, gunpowder or other explosive materials in the streets or corporate limits.Item type:Item, 1879 N.C. Sess. Laws 360(1879)Ch. 204, §§ 1-6: It shall be unlawful to take any fish of the kind known as perch or bream by shooting or netting in the day time or in any manner by fire light from any of said streams between the first day of May and the fifteenth day of August in each year.Item type:Item, 1911 N.C. Sess. Laws 736(1911)Priv. Laws, ch. 293, § 4: That it shall be a misdemeanor for any person to use loud, profane or indecent language, fire off a gun or pistol in hearing distance of those assembled for or engaged in divine worship, or otherwise disturb and annoy those assembled for or engaged in divine worship, and any person violating the provisions of this section shall be fined not more than fifty dollars or imprisoned not exceeding thirty days.Item type:Item, 1905 N.C. Sess. Laws 488(1905)Priv. Laws, ch. 174, § 60: That the board of commissioners of said town shall have power to pass ordinances for the protection of the persons and property of the citizens of the same, and to that end may pass an ordinance making it unlawful to discharge any gun, pistol, or other fire-arm within the corporate limits of the said town or within one-fourth of a mile from the corporate limits of the same, as set out in section two of this act, and any person found guilty of violating the provisions of this section may be punished in the same manner as if the offense had been committed within the corporate limits as aforesaid.Item type:Item, 1869-70 N.C. Sess. Laws 234-35(1870)Priv. Laws, ch. 23, § 32: That it shall not he lawful for any person to discharge fire-arms within the bounds of said town, except on muster days or other service, and persons offending against this regulation shall be fined not more than five dollars, or imprisoned not to exceed ten days; but double this penalty shall be enforced if the offence be committed in the night; one half to the informer the other half to the town."Item type:Item, 1893 N.C. Sess. Laws 348(1893)Priv. Laws, ch. 221, § 5: That it shall be a misdemeanor for any one while a congregation is assembled at the church for any social, religious, political or educational purposes, or while any such congregation is breaking and leaving, to fire any gun or pistol, to throw anything by which any one might be hurt, to cut loose any animal, or commit any damage to any article of personal property; and for every such offence, on conviction, the offender shall be fined ten dollars.Item type:Item, 1889 N.C. Sess. Laws 820(1889)Ch. 178, § 3: That it shall be a misdemeanor for any person to . . . fire off a gun or pistol in hearing distance of those assembled for or occupied in divine worship at said church.Item type:Item, 1881 N.C. Sess. Laws 731(1881)Ch. 40, § 43: The Board of Aldermen�shall have power to make ordinances to prohibit or control the firing of fire-arms, fire crackers, torpedoes and other explosive material, and to govern the sale thereof in the cityItem type:Item, 1865-66 N.C. Sess. Laws 69-70(1866)Priv. Laws, ch. 7, § 30: That the said board of aldermen shall have power to make from time to time, ordinances, rules and regulations concerning the firing of fire-arms, and all explosions in said city, the pace and speed at which horses may be driven or rode through the streets, the arrangements of stove-pipes in buildings, the mode in which fire shall be kept, or carried through the city, the manner in which powder and other explosive and inflammable substances may be kept and soldItem type:Item, 1879 N.C. Sess. Laws 54-55(1879)Priv. Laws, Ch. 46, §§ 1-4: That it shall not be lawful for any person in the hunting of wild fowl in Carteret county to use any gun other than can be fired from the shoulder.Item type:Item, 1899 N.C. Sess. Laws 250(1899)Pub. Laws, ch. 120, § 1: That it shall be unlawful for any person wantonly or in sport to shoot or discharge any gun or pistol in or within one hundred yards of any street in any public road leading out of the towns of Sparta in Alleghany county and Jefferson in Ashe county for a distance of one-fourth mile from the court houses in said townsItem type:Item, 1869-70 N.C. Sess. Laws 85(1870)Pub. Laws, ch. 42, § 1: That if any person whatsoever shall hunt or shoot wild fowl in the county of Currituck on the Sabbath day, or hunt them on any day of the week after the hour of sundown or before daylight in the morning with guns or fire, or use any gun other than can be fired from the shoulder, or build or use any blinds, boxes or batteries in any of the waters away from the marshes or shores proper, from and after thirty days after the passage of this act, such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanorItem type:Item, 1865-66 N.C. Sess. Laws 63(1866)Priv. Laws, ch. 7, § 19: Granted the Board of Aldermen the power to levy a fifty dollar tax on every pistol, Bowie-knife, dirk, sword-cane, or any other deadly weapon worn upon the person except a pocket knife without special permission from the aldermen.Item type:Item, 1919 N.C. Sess. Laws 397, 397-399(1919)Pub. Laws, ch. 197, §§ 1-8: That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation in this State to sell, give away or dispose of, or to purchase or receive, at any place within the State from any other place within or without the State, without a license or permit therefor shall have first been obtained by such purchaser or receiver from the clerk of the Superior Court of the county in which such purchase, sale, or transfer is intended to be made, any pistol, so-called pump-gun, bowie knife, dirk, dagger or metallic knucks.Item type:Item, 1893 N.C. Sess. Laws 468-69(1893)Pub. Laws, ch. 514, §§ 1-2: Prohibiting the transfer of any pistol, pistol cartridge, brass knucks, Bowie knife, dirk, loaded cane, or slingshot to a minor.Item type:Item, 1876-1877 N.C. Sess. Laws 162-63(1876)ch. 104, § 1: Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, Bowie-knife, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, loaded cane, brass knuckles, iron knuckles, or other deadly weapon of a like kind. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor.Item type:Item, 1893 N.C. Sess. Laws 148(1893)Pub. Laws, ch. 191, §§ 1-3: That no body of men composed of more than three persons calling themselves detectives or claiming to be in the employ of any detective agency or known and designated as detectives shall go armed in this state.Item type:Item, 1893, N.C. Sess. Laws 356-57(1893)Pub. Laws, ch. 374, § 38: It shall be unlawful for any persons to organize a military company, or drill or parade under arms as a military body, except under the militia laws and regulations of this state; and no person shall exercise or attempt to exercise the power or authority of a military officer in this state unless he holds a commission from the governor, and any person offending against this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined or imprisoned at the discretion of the court.Item type:Item, 1921 N.C. Sess. Laws 54(1921)Pub. Laws Extra Sess., ch. 6, § 3: That any person who shall carry a pistol, revolver, or gun in any park or reservation such as is described in section one of this act, without having first obtained the written permission of the owner or manager of said park or reservation, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, or shall be fined or imprisoned, in the discretion of the court, for each and every offense.Item type:Item, 1921 N.C. Sess. Laws 105(1921)Pub. Laws, ch. 5, §§ 1-2: 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 use of nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gunpowder, or any other explosive, or acetylene torch, shall be deemed guilty of burglary with explosivesItem type:Item, 1917 N.C. Sess. Laws 134(1917)Pub. Laws, ch. 76, § 1: If anyone except on his own premises shall carry concealed about his person any pistol or gun, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than two years, at the discretion of the court.Item type:Item, 1913 N.C. Sess. Laws 57(1913)Pub. Laws, ch. 32 § 1: That any person being the parent or guardian of, or standing in loco parentis to, any child under the age of twelve years who shall knowingly permit such child to have the possession or custody of, or use in any manner whatever, any gun, pistol, or other dangerous firearm, whether such firearm be loaded or unloaded, or any other person, who shall knowingly furnish such child any such firearm, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not exceeding fifty dollars, or imprisoned not exceeding thirty days.Item type:Item, 1876-77 N.C. Sess. Laws 606(1877)Resolution of Mar. 6, 1877, N.C. Pub. Laws 606 (Resolution in Relation to Public Arms): That the adjutant general be required to collect and deposit in the state arsenal, such arms and equipments belonging to the state as are now in unauthorized hands, whereever they may be found, and that the necessary expenses of travel, freight and drayage, incident thereto, be paid by the treasurer of the state upon the warrant of the governor.