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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. 51: To Prevent the Carrying of Deadly Weapons, in The Santa Barbara Daily Press, June 2, 1876, at 1
    (1876)
    Allowing the mayor to issue a license to carry a concealed weapon to "to any peaceable person whose profession or occupation may require him to be out at late hours of the night."
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    San Francisco Municipal Reports for the Fiscal Year 1874-5, Ending June 30, 1875, at 887 (1875)
    (1872)
    Prohibited the carry or discharge of firearms within Golden Gate and Buena Vista park.
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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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    Ordinance No. 84, in R.M. Clarken, Charter and Ordinances of the City of Sacramento 173 (1896)
    (1876)
    Prohibited the concealed carry of a pistol, dirk, or other dangerous or deadly weapon without a license.
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    1874 Cal. Stat. 465
    (1874)
    An Act For the Protection of the Property At East Park, in Sacramento County, ch. CCCXXI (311), § 1: Prohibited discharge of any gun, pistol, or firearm within the grounds of East park of Sacramento
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    Charter and Revised Ordinances of the City of Los Angeles 39 (1873)
    (1873)
    Prohibited discharge of any gun, pistol, rifle, or other description of fire-arms, or discharge of any air-gun within city fire limits. Violators fined give dollars for the first offence, ten dollars for the second offense, and not more than fifty dollars and imprisonment not exceeding ten days on the third offense.
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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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    Wm. M. Caswell, Revised Charter and Compiled Ordinances and Resolutions of the City of Los Angeles 85 (1878)
    (1878)
    Ordinance 35: Prohibited brandishing a weapon unless in self defense. Ordinance 36: Prohibited the carry of any dirk, pistol, sword-cane, slung-shot, or other dangerous or deadly weapon within the corporate limits of the city of Los Angeles. Violators fined not more than one hundred dollars, and imprisoned at the discretion of the mayor not to exceed ten days.
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    Charter and Revised Ordinances of the City of Eureka 251 (1905)
    (1878)
    Penal Ordinances, Ordinance No. 55- Prohibiting the Carrying of Concealed Weapons, §§ 1-4: Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, dirk, or dangerous or deadly weapon. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding ten days, or both.
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    1878 Cal Stat. 117
    (1878)
    An Act Amending Section Four Hundred and Fifteen of the Penal Code, in Relation to Crimes Against The Public Peace, ch. CCXCIX, § 1: Prohibited discharge of any gun or pistol in an unincorporated town. Violators fined not exceeding two hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding ninety days, or both fine and imprisonment.
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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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    1875 Cal. Stat. 627-28
    (1875)
    Allowed the city of San Jose to regulate the storage of gunpowder and other combustibles and explosive substances within the incorporated limits of the city.
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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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    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.