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Wisconsin

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Wisconsin. 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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Jurisdiction: search.filters.coverage.WisconsinEnd date: 1896

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    Wis. Stat. Ann. 2379, § 4384 (1889)
    (1848)
    If any person shall go armed with a dirk, dagger, sword, pistol or pistols, or other offensive and dangerous weapon, without reasonable cause to fear an assault or other injury or violence to his person, or to his family or property, he may, on complaint of any other person having reasonable cause to fear an injury or breach of the peace, be required to find sureties for keeping the peace for a term not exceeding six months, with the right of appealing as before provided.
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    1872 Wis. Sess. Laws 17
    (1872)
    Prohibited the concealed carry of a dirk, dagger, sword, pistol, revolver, slung-shot, brass knuckles, or other offensive and dangerous weapon. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in state prison not more than two years, or one year in the county jail, or find not exceeding five hundred dollars with costs of prosecution. Sureties of the peace may be required up to two years post-conviction.
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    Wis. Rev. Stat. 1964, § 53 (1872)
    (1872)
    Any person or persons in this State who shall hereafter set any gun, pistol or revolver, or any other firearms, for the purpose of killing deer or any other game, or for any other purpose, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in a sum not exceeding fifty dollars, and shall be imprisoned in the county jail of the proper county for a term of not less than twenty days.
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    Wis. Rev. Stat. Supp. 847, ch. 181, §4397a(1) (1883)
    (1882)
    It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or use, or have in his possession, for the purpose of exposing for sale or use, any toy pistol, toy revolver, or other toy fire-arm.
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    1883 Wis. Sess. Laws 290
    (1883)
    It shall be unlawful for any minor, within this state, to go armed with any pistol or revolver, and it shall be the duty of all sheriffs, constables, or other public police officers, to take from any minor, any pistol or revolver, found in his possession. It shall be unlawful for any dealer in pistols or revolvers, or any other person, to sell, loan, or give any pistol or revolver to any minor in this state. It shall be unlawful for any person in a state of intoxication, to go armed with any pistol or revolver. Any person violating the provisions of this act, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100).
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    1882 Wis. Sess. Laws 389
    (1882)
    Ch. 116, § 1: "It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or use, or have in his possession, for the purpose of exposing for sale or use, any toy pistol, toy revolver, or other toy fire-arm"
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    Wis. Rev. Stat. Supp. 848, ch. 181, §4397b(3) (1883)
    (1883)
    It shall be unlawful for any person in a state of intoxication to go armed with any pistol or revolver. Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.
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    Wis. Stat. Ann. 2226, §§ 4397-4397b (1889)
    (1889)
    Prohibited carrying concealed dangerous weapons, carrying pistols or revolvers by minors or intoxicated persons, and selling, lending, or giving pistols or revolvers to minors. It also prohibited the sale or use of toy firearms. Violations generally carried up to six months’ imprisonment, a fine up to $100, or both.
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    Wis. Rev. Stat. 1121, ch. 196, § 4834 (1878)
    (1878)
    Prohibited the carry of any dirk, dagger, sword, pistol, or other offensive or dangerous weapons. Violators required to post sureties for a term not exceeding six months, with right of appeal.
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    1872 Wis. Sess. Laws 17
    (1872)
    If any person shall go armed with a concealed dirk, dagger, sword, pistol, or pistols, revolver, slung-shot, brass knuckles, or other offensive and dangerous weapon, he shall, on conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor
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    Wis. Rev. Stat. 1960–61, § 37 (1872)
    (1871)
    No person shall at any time or at any place within either of said counties, kill any wild duck, brant or wild goose, with or by means of the device, instrument or fire arm known as a punt or swivel gun, or with or by means of any gun or fire arm other than such guns or fire arms as are habitually raised at arm's length and fired from the shoulder, or shall use any such device, instrument or gun other than such shoulder gun as aforesaid, with intent to kill any wild duck, brant or wild goose, under a penalty of fifty dollars for each and every offense.
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    Wis. Rev. Stat. 985, ch. 175, § 18 (1858)
    (1858)
    If any person shall go armed with a dirk, dagger, sword, pistol or pistols, or other offensive and dangerous weapon, without reasonable cause to fear an assault or other injury or violence to his person, or to his family or property, he may, on complaint of any other person having reasonable cause to fear an injury or breach of the peace, be required to find sureties for keeping the peace, for a term not exceeding six months, with the right of appealing as before provided.