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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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    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.
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    The Act of Incorporation, and the Ordinances and Regulations of the Town of Marietta, Washington County, Ohio 17-18 (1837)
    (1823)
    An Ordinance Preventing the Wanton Use of Firearms, & c., §§ 1-2: Prohibited the discharge or explosion of any gun powder within the town limits. Violators fined not less than one but no more than five dollars on the first offense. Following offenses fined at not less then five but no more than ten dollars with all costs.
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    1823 Ohio Acts, at 55, 57-58, ch. 38, § 10 (vol. 22, 1824)
    (1823)
    to impose a fine of not more than five dollars, for shooting a gun or running a horse within said town, to adopt such regulations as may by them be deemed necessary to secure the town against injuries by fire..."
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    Act Incorporating the City of Cincinnati, and the Ordinances of Said City Now in Force 44 (1828)
    (1818)
    That each and every person who shall shoot , or fire off, any rifle, musket, fowling piece, pistol, or any other fire arms, or discharge squibs, crackers, or any other fire works within the bounds of the Corporation, he or she shall, on conviction thereof before the Mayor forfeit and pay to the said Mayor for the use of the Corporation, for each and every such offence, a sum not less than Two Dollars, nor more than Ten Dollars,
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    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 dollar
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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."