Mississippi
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Mississippi
This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Mississippi. It supports research on the state’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from the territorial period through statehood to the present.
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Item type:Item, Miss. Const. art. I, § 23(1817)Declared every citizen has a right to bear arms in defence of himself and the State.Item type:Item, 1878 Miss. Laws 27, 29(1878)Ch. 3, §§ 8, 12: Mandated tax assessors to have prepared lists of taxable items, including pistols, Bowie knives, dirks, and sword canes.Item type:Item, 1878 Miss. Laws 175-6(1878)Ch.46 § 1: Prohibited the carrying of a concealed Bowie knife, pistol, brass knuckles, slungshot or other deadly weapon. Excepted travels other than "a tramp." Punishable by fine of $5-100.Item type:Item, 1878 Miss. Laws 175-76(1878)An Act To Prevent The Carrying Of Concealed Weapons And For Other Purposes, ch. 46, § 2: Prohibited the sale of any Bowie knife, pistol, brass knuckles, slung shot, or other deadly weapon of like kind to any minor or intoxicated person.Item type:Item, 1878 Miss. Laws 176(1878)Ch. 46, § 4: [A]ny student of any university, college or school, who shall carry concealed, in whole or in part, any weapon of the kind or description in the first section of this Act described, or any teacher, instructor, or professor who shall, knowingly, suffer or permit any such weapon to be carried by any student or pupil, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, be fined not exceeding three hundred dollars, and if the fine and costs are not paid, condemned to hard labor under the direction of the board of supervisors or of the court.Item type:Item, 1876 Miss. Laws 131, 134(1876)Ch. 304: Allowed the Auditor of Public Accounts to create assessment rolls for property subject to taxation, including pistols, dirks, bowie knives, and sword canes.Item type:Item, Volney Erskine Howard, The Statutes of the State of Mississippi 676 (1840)(1840)§ 55 : If any person having or carrying any dirk, dirk knife, Bowie knife, sword, sword cane, or other deadly weapon, shall, in the presence of three or more persons, exhibit the same in a rude, angry and threatening manner, not in necessary self-defense, or shall in any manner unlawfully use the same in any fight or quarrel, the person or persons so offending, upon conviction thereof in the circuit or criminal court of the proper county, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, and be imprisoned not exceeding three months.Item type:Item, 1862 Miss. Laws 134(1861)Ch. 125: Prohibited any Sheriff or Tax-Collector to collect from any tax payer the tax previously assessed upon any Bowie-knife, sword-cane, or dirk-knife. None of the above items shall be given to tax assessors as taxable property.Item type:Item, 1837 Miss. Laws 736-37(1837)An Act To Prevent The Evil Practice Of Dueling In This State And For Other Purposes, § 5: Prohibited the use of any rifle, shotgun, sword cane, pistol, dirk, dirk knife, Bowie knife, or any other deadly weapon in a fight in which one of the combatants was killed, and the exhibition of any dirk, dirk knife, Bowie knife, sword, sword cane, or other deadly weapon in a rude or threatening manner that was not in necessary self-defense. Punishable by liability to decedent and a fine of up to $500 and imprisonment for up to 3 months.Item type:Item, 1867 Miss. Laws 412(1867)Ch. 317: Imposed property tax on several arms. Every pistol has more than one barrel or revolver, two dollars. On every single barrel pistol, one dollar. On each rifle, shotgun, army gun, fifty cents. On each and every Bowie-knife, sword-cane, or dirk, two dollars.Item type:Item, 1866 Miss. Laws 82-86, 91, 165(1865)Prohibited any "freedman, free negro or mulatto" from keeping or carrying any firearms, ammunition, dirk, or bowie knife.Item type:Item, Item type:Item, 1857 Miss. Rev. Code 610(1857)§ 48, art. 229: If any person shall be found hunting with a gun, on the Sabbath, he shall, on convicted thereof, be fined not less than five, nor more than twenty dollars.Item type:Item, 1854 Miss. Laws 49-50(1854)Imposed an annual property tax of $1 on each Bowie knife, Arkansas toothpick, sword cane, and dueling or pocket pistol.Item type:Item, 1857 Miss. Rev. Code 73(1856)Imposed an annual property tax of $1 on each Bowie knife, dirk knife, or sword cane.Item type:Item, 1871 Miss. Laws 819-20(1871)Ch. 33, art. 3, § 1: Imposed property tax on pistols, dirks, Bowie knives, and sword canes.Item type:Item, 1836 Miss. Rev. Stat. 453(1836)Ch. 19, tit. 10, art. 2, § 3: No person shall fire or discharge any gun, pistol, rockets, squib, cracker, or other firework, within a quarter of a mile of any building, on the twenty-fifth day of December, on the last day of December, on the first day of January, or on the twenty-second day of February, in any year; nor on the fourth day of July or such other day as shall at any time be celebrated as the anniversary of American independenceItem type:Item, 1871 Miss. Rev. Code 559-60(1871)ch. 58, art. 13, §§ 2531-35: Every person, who shall challenge another to fight a duel, or who shall send, deliver, or cause to be delivered, any written or verbal messages, purporting or intended to be such challenge, or who shall accept any such challenge or message, or who shall knowingly carry or deliver any such message or challenge, or who shall be present at the time of fighting any duel with deadly weapons, either as second, aid or surgeon, or who shall advise or give assistance to such duel, shall, on conviction thereof, be fined in a sum not less than three hundred dollars, nor exceeding one thousand dollars, or be imprisoned, not less than six months, int eh county jail, or by both such fine and [i]imprisonment. . . . § 2534. If any person shall be guilty of fighting in any village, city, town or other public place, and shall in such fight use any rifle, shot-gun, sword, sword-cane, pistol, dirk, bowie-knife, dirk-knife, or any other deadly weapon, or if any person shall be second or aid in such fight, the person so offending shall be fined not less than three hundred dollars, or shall be imprisoned, not less than three months, or punished by both such fine and imprisonment; and if any person shall be killed in such fight, the person so killing the other, may be prosecuted and convicted as in other cases of murder.Item type:Item, 1871 Miss. Rev. Code 586(1871)Ch. 58, art. 29, § 2683: If any person shall be found hunting with a gun, or with dogs, on the Sabbath, or fishing in any way, he shall, on conviction thereof, be fined not less than five, nor more than twenty dollars.Item type:Item, 1867 Miss. Laws 327-28(1867)Ch. 249, § 1:[A] tax of not less than five dollars or more than fifteen dollars shall be levied and assessed annually by the board of Police of Washington county upon every gun and pistol which may be in the possession of any person in said county,Item type:Item, Item type:Item, Volney Erskine Howard, The Statutes of the State of Mississippi 675-76 (1840)(1840)§ 54: Prohibited duelingItem type:Item, A. Hutchinson, Code of Mississippi 182 (1848)(1844)Ch. 8, § 1: A tax of two dollars on each dueling or pocket pistol, except such as are kept for sale by merchants, artisans, or kept for use by military companies. . .Item type:Item, 1833 Miss. Laws 231(1833)An Act To Amend An Act Entitled An Act To Incorporate The Town Of Gallatin . . . , ch. 98, § 3; That every person who shall willfully run any horse or fire any gun or pistol within said corporation, shall for the first offence, pay the sum of five dollars, and for the second offence, shall pay ten dollars, and double that for any other offence, to be recovered before the President of the Selectmen of said town; Provided, That no person shall be liable to the penalties for shooting, when the same may be accidental or necessary.Item type:Item, 1852 Miss. Laws 328(1852)Act of Mar. 15, 1852, ch. 206: Prohibited issuing licenses to "negroes" to carry and use firearms.Item type:Item, 1818 Miss. Laws 220(1818)Supplemental to an Act to erect the town of Netchez into a city, and to incorporate the same, § 2: That said president and select men, shall and may, from time to time, pass ordinances to regulate the keeping, carting and transporting gun powder or other combustible or dangerous materials[.]