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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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    Amendments to the Charter and Revised Ordinances of the City of Jackson 16-17 (1882)
    (1882)
    Required the city assessor to prepare separate real and personal property assessment rolls, including separate columns listing and valuing pistols, dirks, bowie-knives, sword-canes, and other guns.
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    Charter of the City of Jackson 68 (1867)
    (1867)
    Imposed a $5 tax on pistols and bowie-kives.
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    Ordinance No. III: Crimes and Misdemeanors, in Greenville Times, Dec. 31, 1881, at 2, § 6-8
    (1881)
    § 6: That it shall be unlawful to fly kites, play ball, throw missiles, or discharge any fire-arms, or other explosives, (except fireworks on national holidays) or cause dogs to fight in the streets of the town, or do any act to injure property, public or private, or make any noise on t h streets likely to frighten horses or mules, or alarm or injure persons, or impede the free passage of vehicles or persons, or to discharge any fire-arms within the town, unless in self-defense or defense of his property, or while in the legal execution of some law or ordinance;
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    1880 Miss. Rev. Code 776-77, §§ 2985-88
    (1880)
    Ch. 77, §§ 2986-88: It shall not be lawful for any person to sell to any minor or person intoxicated knowing him to a a minor or in a state of intoxication, any weapons of the kind or description in the foregoing section described, or any pistol cartridge and on conviction he shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, and if the fine and costs are not paid, be condemned to hard labor under the direction of the board of supervisors or of the court not exceeding six months. § 2987. Any father who shall knowingly suffer or permit any minor son under the age of sixteen years to carry concealed, in whole or in part, any person of the kind or description in the forgoing section described, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, shall be fined not less than twenty dollars, nor more than two hundred dollars, and if the fine and costs are not paid, shall be condemned to hard labor as provided in the proceeding section. § 2988. Any 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 foregoing section 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, be condemned to hard labor as above provided.
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    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.
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    1886 Miss. Laws 12, 19
    (1886)
    ch. 2, § 1: Placed $25 tax on shooting ranges/galleries
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    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.
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    1884 Miss. Laws 412
    (1884)
    ch. 390, § 24, pt. 16: To regulate and prevent the storage of cotton, hay, gun powder, oil or any other combustible, explosive or inflammable [sic] material or substance; or of any material or substance offensive to public comfort or injurious to health.
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    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.
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    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.
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    1880 Miss. Laws 21
    (1880)
    Ch. 6, § 7: Mandated tax assessors to have prepared rolls of taxable items, including pistols, Bowie knives, dirks, and sword canes.
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    1880 Miss. Rev. Code 775
    (1880)
    Ch. 77, § 2983: If any person assaults and beats another with a cowhide, whip or stick, having at the time in his possession a pistol or other deadly weapon, with intent to intimidate the person assaulted, and prevent him from defending himself, he shall on conviction be imprisoned in the penitentiary not longer than ten years.]
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    1871 Miss. Laws 819-20
    (1871)
    Ch. 33, art. 3, § 1: Imposed property tax on pistols, dirks, Bowie knives, and sword canes.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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,