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California

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to California. It supports research on the state’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from the Spanish and Mexican periods through statehood to the present.

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    Ordinance no. 5, §§ 1 & 6, in The Nevada Democrat, Aug. 20, 1856, at 4
    (1856)
    Imposed a $10 quarterly license on pistol and shooting galleries.
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    S. Garfielde, Compiled Laws of the State of California 643-44 (1853)
    (1850)
    Ch. 125, div. 4, §§ 40-41: Prohibited dueling. Should the opponent be killed, violators and their seconds shall be punished in state prison for a term not less than one year but no more than five years.
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    Ordinance No. 237, in San Jose Common Council & Mayor (1854)
    (1854)
    §That from and after the approval of this Ordinance the Marshall shall every month make out a list of the houses, in which Gunpowder is kept, with the quantity, and shall report the same to the Mayor, and the Mayor shall deliver a copy of such list to the Foreman of the Fire Company.
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    Ordinance No. 264, in San Jose Common Council & Mayor (1854).
    (1854)
    No person shall discharge any fire arms of any description whatever in that portion of the city included within Main St & the Guadalupe river, and between Julian & William streets
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    Ordinances and Joint Resolutions of the City of San Francisco 220 (1854)
    (1853)
    Ordinance No. 498, section 13: Every person, house, or firm engaged in keeping a pistol or rifle shooting gallery, shall pay for a license to carry on the same, the sum of ten dollars per quarter, in addition to the amount of the powder license.
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    The General Orders of the Board of Supervisors, City and County of San Francisco 13 (1869)
    (1869)
    Prohibited the discharge of any cannon within the city, in the part of the county between Larkin and Ninth streets, or in the streets forming the water. Violators fined not less than one hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days.
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    1849 Cal. Stat. 245
    (1849)
    An Act to Incorporate the City of San Francisco, § 127: Prohibited the carrying, with intent to assault any person, any pistol, gun, knife, dirk, bludgeon, or other offensive weapon with the intent to assault another person.. Punished by fine of up to $100 and imprisonment for up to 3 months.
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    1851 Cal. Stat. 360-61
    (1851)
    An Act to Reincorporate the City of San Francisco, § 13: Granted the city of San Francisco authority to regulate houses for the storage of gun-powder and other combustibles.
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    New Advertisements, in Los Angeles Tri-Weekly News, July 22, 1865, at 2
    (1865)
    named Ordinance, §§ 1-3, & Unnamed Revised Ordinance, Article 5, § 2. Passed July 17, 1856. Volume 13, Number 12: Prohibited the concealed carry any dirk, pistol, sword-cane, slung-shot, or other dangerous or deadly weapons. Violators fined not more than one hundred dollars and imprisonment at the discretion of the mayor, not exceeding ten days. Also prohibited discharge any pistol, gun, rifle, other description of firearms, or air gun. Violators fined five dollars for the first offense, ten dollars for the second offense, and the third offense not more than fifty dollars, and imprisonment at the discretion of the mayor not exceeding ten days.
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    Theodore H. Hittell, The General Laws of the State of California, from 1850 to 1864, Inclusive 261 (1872)
    (1864)
    § 1585 [§1]: Prohibited the concealed carrying of any dirk, pistol, sword cane, slungshot, or "other dangerous or deadly weapon." Exempted any peace officer or officer acting under the law of the United States. Punishable by imprisonment for 30-90 days or fine of $20-200.
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    1863 Cal. Stat. 748
    (1863)
    Prohibited the concealed carry of any dirk, pistol, sword in a cane, slung-shot, or other dangerous or deadly weapon, concealed. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, imprisoned not less than thirty nor more than ninety days, or fined not less than twenty nor more than two hundred dollars.
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    1864 Cal. Stat. 115
    (1864)
    Prohibited the concealed carrying of any dirk, pistol, sword cane, slungshot, or "other dangerous or deadly weapon." Exempted any peace officer or officer acting under the law of the United States. Punishable by imprisonment for 30-90 days or fine of $20-200.
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    1855 Cal. Stat. 152-53
    (1855)
    Ch. 127, §§ 1-3: Provided that a person who killed another in a duel with "a rifle, shot-gun, pistol, bowie-knife, dirk, small-sword, back-sword or other dangerous weapon" would pay the decedent's debts and be liable to the decedent's family for liquidated damages.
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    S. Garfielde, Compiled Laws of the State of California 663-64 (1853)
    (1850)
    Ch. 125, div. 11, § 127: Prohibited the carry of a pistol, gun, knife, dirk, bludgeon, or other offensive weapon with intent to assault. Violators punished by fine not to exceed one hundred dollars or imprisonment no more than three months.
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    William H. R. Wood, Digest of the Laws of California 334 (1861)
    (1861)
    Art. 1904: Prohibited the display of any dirk, dirk-knife, Bowie knife, sword, sword cane, pistol, gun, or other deadly weapon in a threatening manner, or use of such weapon in a fight. Punishable by a fine of $100-500 or imprisonment for 1-6 months.