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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, 1933 Ohio Acts 189-90, Reg. Sess., An Act. . . Relative to the Sale and Possession of Machine Guns, No. 165(1933)Prohibited owning, possessing, and transporting a machine gun, light machine gun, or submachine gun without a permit. Punishable by imprisonment of 1-10 years.Item type:Item, 1913 Ohio Acts 906, ch. 11, §§ 12966-12967 (vol. 103)(1913)Whoever sells of exhibits for sale, to a minor under sixteen years of age, a pistol manufactured of a metallic or hard substance, commonly known as a "toy pistol" or air gun, or any form of explosive gun,shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars or imprisoned not less than ten days nor more than twenty days, or both, and be liable in damages to any person injured by such sale. § 12967. Whoever sells, barters, furnishes or gives to a minor under the age of seventeen years, an air-gun, musket, rifle, shotgun, revolver, pistol, or other fire-arm, or ammunition therefor, or, being the owner or having charge or control thereof, knowingly permits it to be used by a minor under such age, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned in jail not more than thirty days, or both.Item type:Item, 1902 Ohio Gen. and Local Acts 23, Extraordinary Sess.,§§An Act to Provide for the Organization of Cities and§Incorporated Villages . . . and to Repeal§All Sections of the Revised Statutes Inconsistent Herewith,§§ 7,§pt. 11 (vol. 96)(1902)To regulate the transportation, keeping and sale of gunpowder and other explosives or dangerous combustibles and materials and to provide or license magazines for the same.Item type:Item, 1904 Ohio Gen. and Local Acts 471, An Act Creating a§Fish and Game Commission . . . §§15 (vol. 97)(1904)No person shall hunt or shoot, or have in the open air for such purposes, any implements for hunting or shooting on any Sunday.Item type:Item, 1911 Ohio Acts 124-25, An Act to prohibit the manufacture and sale of certain kinds of weapons, §§ 1-2 (vol. 102)(1911)Whoever manufacturers, sells or exposes for sale, any weapon known or designated as brass knuckles, billy, slung-shot, sand-bag, black-jack or other weapon of similar character, shall, for the first offense be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars, and for the second and subsequent offenses, shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars and imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than six months.Item type:Item, 1900 Ohio Gen. and Local Acts 730, Act to provide a license on trades, business and professions carried on and for the use of streets . . . §§ 24-25 (vol. 94)(1900)All keepers or owners of gun powder magazines shall pay a license fee of one hundred dollars ($100) per annum, and shall notify the chief of the fire department, in writing, of the place where the same is kept or stored; but no license shall be issued under this section without the consent of the mayor. § 25. All keepers of shooting galleries shall pay a license fee of fifty dollars ($50) per annum, or for a less period of one year at a rate of ten dollars ($10) per month, no license to be issued for a less period than one month.Item type:Item, 1894 Ohio Gen. and Local Laws 86-87, An Act to Prevent the Use of Air Guns or Other Arms or Implements by Which Hard or Dangerous Substance Is Shot, Forced or Thrown, § 1 (vol. 91)(1894)[I]t shall be unlawful for any person to shoot, force or throw, by the means of any air-gun or other arm or implement of any kind, and lead, iron or other hard substance upon any of the streets, alleys, lanes or public places within the state of Ohio, any person so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined in any sum not more than twenty-five dollars nor less the one dollarItem type:Item, 1880 Ohio Rev. Stat. 1655, tit. 1, ch. 8, § 7007 (vol. 2, 1879)(1880)Whoever plays bullets along or across any street, in any municipal corporation, or runs any horse, shoots or fires any gun or pistol at a target, within the limits of any municipal corporation, shall be fined not more than fifty nor less than five dollars.]Item type:Item, 1883 Ohio Gen. and Local Laws 222, An Act to Prohibit the Sale of Toy Pistols in the State of Ohio, § 1 (vol. 80)(1883)That it shall be unlawful for any firm, company or person in the state of Ohio, to sell or exhibit for sale any pistol manufactured out of any metallic or hard substance, commonly known as the "toy pistol"; to a minor under the age of fourteen years; any firm company or person violating the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars, or be imprisoned not less than ten days nor more than twenty days, or both, and shall be liable to a civil action in damages ot any person injured by such sale.Item type:Item, 1900 Ohio Gen. and Local Acts 235, An Act to Amend Section 6961 of the Revised Statutes (Bates' Annotated) of Ohio, § 1 (vol. 94)(1900)No person shall, at any time, catch, kill, or injure, or pursue, with such intent any wild duck or wild goose, by the aid or use of any swivel or punt gun, or any other gun but a common shoulder gun.Item type:Item, Annual Reports of the Various Departments of the City of Columbus, Together with a Financial Statement of the Receipts and Disbursements for the Year Ending December 31, 1893, at 16-20, Ordinance No. 8191-Making Certain Offenses Therein Named Misdemeanors, § 9-Concealed Weapons & § 25-Firearms, Firecrackers, Etc. Passed January 22, 1894.(1894)Whoever shall wear under his clothes, or concealed about his person, any pistol or revolver, colt, billy, slungshot, brass knuckles or knuckles of lead, dirk, dagger or any knife resembing a bowie knife or any other dangerous or deadly weapon within the corporate limits of the city of Columbus, shall, on conviction thereof, be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars for each and every offense, SEC. 25. Whoever shall throw, cast or let off any skyrocket, squib, cracker, firework or other thing charged with gunpowder; or discharge any common gun or pistol in this city, without a written permit from the mayor, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanorItem type:Item, 1889 Ohio Gen. and Local Laws 164, An Act to Amend Section 2669 of the Revised Statutes, as Amended April 22, 1885, § 1 (vol. 84)(1889)The council of the city or village may provide by ordinance for licensing all exhibiters of shows or performances of any kind, not prohibited by law, hawkers, peddlers, auctioneers of horses and other animals on the highways or public grounds of the corporation, venders [sic] of gun powder and other explosives, taverns and houses of public entertainment, and hucksters in the public streets or markets, and in granting such license, may extract and receive such sum of money as it may think reasonable[.]Item type:Item, Ordinances of the City of Cleveland, at 231, ch. 51, § 683 (1890)(1890)It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to engage in sporting, rioting, quarreling, shooting or other disturbances within the city on Sunday; Provided, that this section shall not be construed as referring to baseball games in inclosed grounds, or in unoccupied parts of the city, by permission of the owner of the grounds."Item type:Item, 1884 Supplement to the Revised Statutes of the State of Ohio, at 633, Licenses, § 24(1884)All vendors of gunpowder shall pay a license fee of fifteen (15) dollars per annum. All keepers or owners of gunpowder magazines shall pay a license fee of one hundred (100) dollars per annum.Item type:Item, 1886 Gen and Local Acts of the State of Ohio 100, ch. 4, § 3079 (vol. 83)(1886)if any person shall temporarily erect any stand, booth, or other structure for the purpose of exposing for sale, giving, bartering, or otherwise dispose of any spirituous or other intoxicating liquors whatsoever, at or within a distance of one mile from any such parade or encampment, he may be put immediately under guard, and kept at the discretion of the commanding officer, and such commanding officer may turn over such person to any police officer or constable of the city, township or town wherein such duty, parade or drill, encampment or meeting is held, for examination or trial before any court of justice having jurisdiction of the place."Item type:Item, 1880 Ohio Rev. Stat. 1633, tit. 1, ch. 5, § 6892 (vol. 2, 1879)(1880)Prohibited the concealed carrying of any pistol, Bowie knife, dirk, or other dangerous weapon. Punishable by a fine of up to $200 or imprisonment for up to 30 days for the first offense, and a fine of up to $500 or imprisonment for up to 3 months for the second offense.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, 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. 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, 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.