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Ohio
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Item type:Item, 1788-1801 Ohio Laws 42, An Act for Suppressing and Prohibiting Every Species of Gaming for Money or Other Property, and for Making Void All Contracts and Payments Made in Furtherance Thereof,§ ch. 13, § 4.(1788)[I]f any person shall presume to discharge or fire,§or cause to be discharged or fire, any gun or other fire arms at any mark or object, or upon any pretence whatever, unless he or she shall at the same time be with such gun or fire-arms a the distance of at least one quarter of a mile from the nearest building of any such city, town, village or station, such person shall for every such offense, forfeit and pay to the use of the county in which the same shall be committed, a sum not exceeding five dollars, nor less than one dollar.Item type:Item, 1877 Ohio Laws 278, ch. 8, § 60 (vol. 74)(1877)Whoever, except in case of invasion by a foreign enemy, or to suppress insurrection or a mob, or for the purpose of raising the body of a person drowned, or for the purpose of blasting or removing rock, fires any cannon, or explodes at any time more than four ounces of gunpowder, upon any public street or highway, or nearer than ten rods to the same, shall be fined not more than fifty nor less than five dollars.Item type:Item, 1879 Gen. and Local Laws of the State of Ohio 191-92, An Act to define and suppress tramps, § 2 (vol. 76)(1879)That any tramp who shall enter any dwelling-house, or shall enter the yard or enclosure about any dwelling-house, against the will or without the permission of the owner or occupant thereof, or shall not, when requested, immediately leave such place, or shall be found carrying any fire-arms or other dangerous weapons, or shall do or threaten to do any injury to any person, or shall do or threaten to do any injury to the real or personal estate or property of another, shall, upon conviction thereof, be imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than one year nor more than three years.Item type:Item, 1874 Ohio Gen. and Local Laws 148, An Act to Protect Certain Birds and Game, and to Protect Land Owners and Punish Trespassing upon Improved or Enclosed Land, and to Repeal Certain Statutes Therein Designated, § 2 (vol. 71)(1874)And it shall be unlawful for any person, by the aid or use of any swivel or punt gun, or any other than the common shoulder gun, or by the aid or use of any push boat or sneak boat, used for carrying such gun, to catch, kill or wound, or destroy or to pursue after, with such intent upon the waters, bays, rivers, marshes, mud flats, or any cover to which wild fowl resort, within the state of Ohio, any wild goose, wild duck, or brant.Item type:Item, 1878 Gen. and Local Laws of the State of Ohio 199, div. 3, ch. 3, § 1, pt. 14 (vol. 75)(1878)To regulate the transportation and keeping of gunpowder, and other explosive and dangerous combustibles, and to provide or license magazines for the same.Item type:Item, 1860 Ohio Rev. Stat. 452, ch. 33, §§ 211-212 (Vol. 1)(1859)Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, that whoever shall carry a weapon or weapons, concealed on or about his person, such as a pistol, bowie knife, dirk, or any other dangerous weapon, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,Item type:Item, Gen. Acts and Local Laws of the State of Ohio 125, An act for the protection of certain birds and game, § 3 (vol. 58, 1861)(1861)And it shall also be unlawful for any person at any time after the passage of this act, by the aid or use of any swivel, punt gun, big gun (so called), or any gun other than the common shoulder gun or by the aid or use of any punt boat, or sneak boat used for carrying such gun to catch, kill, wound, or destroy, or to pursue after, with intent to catch, kill, wound or destroy, upon any of the waters, bays, rivers, marshes, mud flats, or any cover to which wild fowl resort within the state of Ohio, any wild goose, wood-duck, teal, canvas-back, blue-bill, or other wild duck.Item type:Item, Stat. of Ohio & N.W. Terr. 106, ch 14, § 4 (Vol. 1, 1833)(1790)§That if any person shall presume to discharge or fire, or cause to be discharged or fired, any gun or other fire-arms at any mark or object, or upon any pretence whatever, unless he or she shall at the same time be with such gun or fire-arms at the distance of at least one-quarter of a mile from the nearest building of any such city, town, village or station, such person shall for every such offence, forfeit and pay to the use of the county in which the same shall be committed, a sum not exceeding five dollars, not less than one dollarItem type:Item, Stat. of Ohio & N.W. Terr. 1740, ch. 834, § 6 (Vol. 3, 1835).(1831)That if any person or persons shall play bullets along or across any street in any town or village within this state; or if any person or persons shall run any horse or horses within the limits of any such town or village;§or if any person or persons shall shoot or fire a gun at a target within the limits of any recorded town plat in this state: every person or persons so offending shall be fined in a sum not exceeding five dollars, nor less than fifty cents."Item type:Item, 1837 Ohio Laws 30-31, General Acts vol. 35, An Act to Organize and Discipline the Militia, § 29.(1836)That in every regiment, squadron or battalion the field officers shall each arm himself with a good and sufficient sword and pair of pistols, and furnish himself with a good and sufficient horse, with saddle, bridle, martingale and holsters; and in each company of cavalry or troop of horse, the commissioned officers shall each be armed with a good and sufficient sword and pair of pistolsItem type:Item, Ohio Const. of 1802, art. VIII, §20(1802)Declared the People have a right to bear arms for the defense of themselves and the state. That Standing armies are dangeorus in time of peace, and shall not be kept up.Item type:Item, Stat. of Ohio & N.W. Terr. 230, ch. 98, § 10 (Vol. 1. Cincinnati, 1833)§(1833)And if any person within this territory, shall challenge, by word or in writing, the person of another to fight at sword, rapier, pistol, or other deadly weapon, the person so challenging, shall forfeit and pay for every such offense, being thereof lawfully convicted, in any court of record within the county wherein the offense shall be committed, having competent jurisdiction by the testimony of one or more witnesses, or by the confession of the party offending, a sum not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, not less than fifty dollarsItem type:Item, Stat. of Ohio & N.W. Terr. 378-79, ch 25, § 1 (Vol. 1, 1833)(1799)[t]hat each and every free, able bodied, white male citizen of the territory, who is or shall be the age of eighteen years, and under the age of forty five-years, except as is herein after excepted, shall . . . be enrolled in the militia . . . and every citizen, so enrolled and notified, shall, within six months thereafter, provide himself with a good musket,Item type:Item, 1841 Ohio Gen. Stat. 257, ch. 35, § 6(1841)That if any person or persons shall play bullets, along or across any street in any town or village, within this state; or if any person or persons shall run any horse or horses within the limits of any such town or village; or if any person or persons shall shoot or fire a gun at a target within the limits of any recorded town plat in this state; every person or persons so offending, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding five dollars, nor less than fifty cents.