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Ohio

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Ohio. It supports research on the state’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from the Northwest Territory period through statehood to the present.

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    An Act Incorporating the City of Cincinnati: And a Digest of the Ordinances of Said City, at 57-58, An Ordinance to Regulate the Keeping of Gunpowder, § 1 (1835)
    (1835)
    That no person or persons in the city of Cincinnati, shall keep, have, or possess, in any house, warehouse, shop, shed, or other building, nor in any street, side walk, lane, alley, passage, way, or yard, nor in any cellar, wagon, cary, or carriage, of any kind whatever; nor in any other place, within said city, Gun Powder, in any way or manner, other than as provided for by this ordinance; nor in any quantity exceeding twenty-five pounds, to be divided into six equal parts. § 2. Be it further ordained, That it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to sell gun powder by retail within said city, without having first obtained a license from the city council for that purpose; and every person obtaining a grant for a license to sell gun powder, shall receive a certificate of such grant from the city clerk, and pay into the city treasury, a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, nor less than ten dollars
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    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."
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    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 pistols
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    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 dollars