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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, 1792 Laws Passed in the Territory of the United States North-West of the River Ohio, at 20, Burglary(1788)Prohibited the carrying of any "dangerous weapon" that indicates a violent intention while committing a burglary. Punishable by imprisonment for up to 40 years.Item type:Item, Massillon Rev. Ordinances, at 50-51, ch. 10, §§ 129-130 (1880).(1880)That whoever carries any pistol, bowie knife, dirk, or other dangerous weapon, concealed on or about his person, shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than thirty days, and for a second offense, fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than three months, or both.Item type:Item, Ordinances of the City of Sandusky, Ohio, at 131-32, Shooting Within Certain Limits, An Ordinance to provide for the punishment of certain offences named therein, §§ 1-2 (1887)(1884)That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to fire or discharge any gun, cannon or other fire arm, within the following limits of said city, to-witItem type:Item, 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..."Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 1855 Laws and Gen. Ordinances of the City of Dayton 214, An ordinance for the punishment of offenses, § 38(1855)If any person, or persons, shall fire any cannon, gun, or other firearms, within the bounds of the building lots, or cemetery ground in this city, or within one hundred yards of any public road, within this corporation, except by permission of council, and except in proper situations for firing salutes, or by command of a military officer in performance of military duty, every person, so offending, on conviction thereof, shall pay a fine not exceeding ten dollars, and costs.Item type:Item, 1842 Ohio Acts 73, An Act to Incorporate the Woodland Cemetery Association of Dayton, § 5 (vol. 40)(1841)That any person who shall willfully . . . shoot or discharge any gun within the limits aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanorItem type:Item, An Ordinance to Prevent and Punish Certain Misdemeanors, §§ 1-4, General Ordinances of the Incorporated Village of Clifton (1874).(1874)Be it ordained by the Council of the Incorporated Village of Clifton, That it shall be unlawful, except for persons in military array, or to enforce the laws, or in defence of persons or property, to discharge any description of fire-arms within the corporate limits of the village. Also prohibited the killing of certain birds with a firearm.Item type:Item, Ordinances of the City of Cleveland, at 136-37, ch. 33, §§ 417-423 (1890).(1890)No person shall fire any cannon, gun, rifle, pistol, toy pistol or firearms of any kind, or fire or explode any squib, rocket, cracker or Roman candle or other combustible fireworks or make use of any sling within the city. Sec. 421. Any person who shall intentionally, without malice, point or aim any firearm at or toward any other person, shall be subject to a fine of not less than five nor more than fifty dollars.Item type:Item, 1872 Cleveland Gen. Ordinances 102, An Ordinance to Prevent the Careless Use of Fire-Arms(1872)That any person who shall discharge, without injury to any other person, any fire-arm while intentionally without malice aimed at or toward any such person, shall be subject to a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the work house not exceeding thirty days, or both, at the discretion of the court.Item type:Item, Codified Ordinances of the City of Cleveland, at 60, ch. 23, §§1-3 (1877).(1877)§No person shall fire any cannon, gun, rifle, pistol or fire-arms of any kind, or fire or explode any squib, rocket, cracker, Roman candle, or other combustible fireworks within the city.Item type:Item, Laws and Ordinances, of a General and Local Nature, for the Government of the City of Cleveland, at 12-13, An Ordinance to Prevent the Firing of Guns, Fire-Arms, or Fire-Works, §§1-2 (1854).(1854)That it shall be unlawful for any person to fire or discharge and cannon, gun, pistol or fire-arms of any kind, within the city,§Item type:Item, Standing Rules of Order of the Cleveland City Council: With a Catalogue of the Mayors and Councils of the City of Cleveland, from Its Organization, April, 1836, to April, 1871, and Officers of the City Government for 1872, at 101 (1872)(1856)An Ordinance to Prevent the Firing of Guns and Fire-works, § 1: That no person shall fire any cannon, gun, rifle, pistol, or fire-arms of any kind, or fire or explode any squib, rocket, cracker, Roman candle, or other combustible fire-works within the city.§Item type:Item, Codified Ordinances of the City of Cleveland, at 37, Ch. 10, §12, pt. 6 (1877)(1877)No person shall discharge any fire arms within the cemeteries, except at military funerals."Item type:Item, 1856 Cleveland Gen. Ordinances 128, An Ordinance to establish a magazine and regulate the sale of powder, § 1-3 (1856)(1856)No person shall keep within the city, any quantity of gunpowder exceeding twenty-five pounds, or of gun cotton exceeding five pounds, for a longer period than twenty-four hours, except in the powder magazine; and said twenty-five pounds shall be kept in tin or copper canisters, neither of which shall contain over seven pounds and shall be labelled "gunpowder," and be kept near the front or rear entrance of every building in which it is contained."Item type:Item, 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 dollarsItem 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, 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,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.