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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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Item type:Item, The General Orders of the Board of Supervisors Providing Regulations for the Government of the City and County of San Francisco 95 (1881)(1880)Imposed license rates for sellers and keepers of gunpowder and shooting galleries.Item type:Item, Concerning Firearms, in Alameda Encinal, May 3, 1882, at 3(1882)Prohibited firing firearms, pistols, or cannons on streets, wharves, or private property without owner consent, punishable by up to a $50 fine, 25 days' imprisonment, or both.Item type:Item, Charter and Revised Ordinances of the City of San Jose 91 (1882)(1882)§§ 2-4: Prohibited the use or possession of any slung-shot, rubber sling, or other instrument or device by which missiles are hurled or projected. Also prohibited the wear or carry of any slung-shot, knuckles, or other similar instruments. Also prohibited the sale, or transfer to any minor under the age of twelve, any revolver, pistol, or other means to shoot bullets or missiles. Only public officers may wear or carry any pistol, dirk, or other dangerous weapon.Item type:Item, San Francisco Municipal Reports for the Fiscal Year 1874-5, Ending June 30, 1875, at 886 (1875)(1887)General Orders, Order No. 1,226-Prohibiting the Carrying of Concealed Deadly Weapons, § 1. Approved July 9, 1875: Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, dirk, or other dangerous or deadly weapon.Item type:Item, Charter and Ordinances of the City of Stockton 240 (1908)(1891)Ordinance No. 53: Prohibited the wear or concealed carry of any pistol, dirk, Bowie-Knife, slungshot, sand-club, metallic knuckles, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon.Item type:Item, San Francisco, Charter for the City 142 (1898)(1898)Every Police Officer shall, upon the arrest of any person charged with the commission of crime, search the person of such offender, and take from him all property and weapons, and forthwith deliver the same to the prison§keeper, who must deliver the same to the Property Clerk, to be by him kept until other disposition be made thereof according to law?Item type:Item, General Orders of the Board of Supervisors Providing Regulations for the Government of the City And County of San Francisco: Also, Ordinances of Park Commissioners 8 (1884)(1880)General Order no. 1,603-Relating to the Police Department, § 22-Prohibiting the Carrying of Concealed Deadly Weapons. Approved September 17, 1880: Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, dirk, or dangerous or deadly weapon.Item type:Item, Charter for the City and County of San Francisco: Proposed by the Board of Freeholders, Elected in Pursuance of the Provisions of Section 8, Article XI, of the Constitution of the State of California 31 (1883)(1883)Empowered the local supervisors to regulate the sale and use of guns, pistol, firearms. Prohibited the sale of any toy cannon, gun, pistol, or other toy weapon to any minor or children.Item type:Item, An Ordinance to Prohibit the Carrying of Concealed Deadly Weapons, in St. Helena Star, December 9, 1884, at 2(1884)Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, dirk, sword, slung-shot, or other dangerous or deadly weapon. Violators fined not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars or imprisoned not less than one day nor more than thirty days.Item type:Item, Fred L. Button, General Municipal Ordinances of the City of Oakland, California 218 (1895)(1890)Sec. 1, An Ordinance to Prohibit the Carrying of Concealed Weapons, No. 1141: Prohibited the wear or concealed carry without a permit of any pistol, slung-shot, brass or iron knuckles, sand club, dirk, Bowie-knife, iron bar, or other dangerous or deadly weapon.Item type:Item, Concealed Weapons, in The Napa Valley Register, November 10, 1880, at 3(1880)Prohibited the concealed carry of any dirk, pistol, sword-cane, sling-shot, or other dangerous or deadly weapon. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars. Violators imprisoned until fine is paid, not to exceed one day for each dollar fined.Item type:Item, Ordinance No. 10: An Ordinance Prohibiting the Carrying of Concealed Deadly Weapons, and Fixing the Penalty Therefor, in The Lompoc Record, August 21, 1888, at 2(1888)Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, revolver, dirk, stiletto, or other dangerous or deadly weapon.Item type:Item, The Ordinances of the City of Monterey: A Municipal Corporation of the State of California Under a Freeholder's Charter: Classified with Appendix Containing the Charter of Said City: February, 1913, at 112 (1913)(1892)Ordinance No. 49-To Prohibit the Carrying of Concealed Weapons, §§ 1-3: Prohibited the wear or concealed carry of any dirk, pistol, sword-cane, slung-shot, or other dangerous or deadly weapon.Item type:Item, Ordinance No. 8, in Los Angeles Herald, April 12, 1889, at 7(1889)Ordinance No. 8-An Ordinance to Amend an Ordinance Entitled an "Ordinance Regulating the Carrying of Deadly or Dangerous Weapons," §§ 1-2. Approved April 10, 1889; In Force April 12, 1889. Volume 32, Number 10. (Los Angeles, CA): Prohibited concealed carry of any dirk, Bowie-knife, sword-cane, pistol, revolver, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon.Item type:Item, An Ordinance to Prohibit the Carrying of Concealed Deadly Weapons, in Marysville Daily Democrat, February 7, 1889, at 4(1889)Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, dirk, or other dangerous or deadly weapon.Item type:Item, Jener W. Nielson, Charter and Ordinances of the City of Fresno, California 58 (1916)(1891)No. 221, § 53: Prohibited any junkshop keeper within city limits from hiring, loaning, or delivery to any minor under eighteen any gun, pistol, other firearm, dirk, Bowie-knife, powder, shot, bullets, any weapon, combustible, or other dangerous material without written permission from the parent or guardian. Note: California did not mention this only applied to junkshop keepers in their Rupp filingItem type:Item, Concerning Concealed Weapons, in Alameda Encinal, May 3, 1882, at 3(1882)Prohibited concealed carrying of any pistol, slung-shot, brass or iron knuckles, iron bars "such as are usually carried by Chinamen," sand clubs, dirk, Bowie-knife, dangerous weapons, deadly weapons. Violators punished by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding fifty days, or both.Item type:Item, Jener W. Nielson, Charter and Ordinances of the City of Fresno, California 52 (1916)(1891)No. 221, § 8: Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, firearm, slungshot, dirk, Bowie-knife, or other deadly weapon without written permission from the President of the Board of Trustees while within city limits. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor.Item type:Item, L. W. Moultrie, Charter and Ordinances of the City of Fresno 30 (1896)(1896)Prohibited the concealed carrying of any pistol or firearm, slungshot, dirk, Bowie knife, or other deadly weapon, absent written permission.Item type:Item, Ordinance No. 6, in The Fresno Republican, November 7, 1885, at 3(1885)Prohibited the discharge of firearms within the corporate limits of the city. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor. Also prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, firearm, slung-shot, dirk, Bowie-knife, or other deadly weapon.Item type:Item, L. W. Moultrie, Charter and Ordinances of the City of Fresno 37 (1896)(1896)Prohibited the transfer to any minor under the age of 18 any gun, pistol or other firearm, dirk, Bowie knife, powder, shot, bullets, or any combustible or dangerous material, absent written consent of parent or guardian.Item type:Item, Nathan Newmark, The Political Code of the State of California: As Enacted in 1872, and Amended in 1889: With Notes and References to the Decisions of the Supreme Court 963 (1889)(1889)§ 153: Any Municipal Council shall provide, by ordinance, all funds receive for licenses of the storage, manufacture, sale of gunpowder, blasting powder, gun cotton, fireworks, nitro-glycerine, dualine, or any explosive oils or compounds, or as a municipal tax all the same. These funds will be collected into a "Fireman's Charitable Fund."Item type:Item, 1895 Cal. Stat. 183(1895)Amendments to the Civil Code, Chapter 168-An Act to Amend Several Sections Relating to the National Guard of California, § 1942: Prohibited militias to wear colors not associated with the United States. Prohibited any unorganized militia other than the regular organized National Guard in the state of California without a license from the governor. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor subject to arrest and punishment therefor.