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Jurisdiction: search.filters.coverage.FloridaStart date: 1890

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    1923 Fla. Laws 431-32
    (1923)
    An Act for the Protection of Person Who Use Shot-guns in the Pursuit of Game and for Sport . . ., ch. 9340, § 1: Prohibited the sale of any shot gun shells, divested of their interstate character, which do not plainly print on the box the character, quality, and quantity of powder contained in such shells.
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    1933 Fla. Laws 623
    (1933)
    An Act to Prevent Throwing of Bombs and the Discharge of Machine Guns Upon, or Across Any Public Road in the State of Florida . . ., ch. 16111, § 1: Prohibited throwing a bomb or shooting a machine gun across or along a street or highway, any public park or place where people assemble with the intent to do bodily harm. Punishable by death.
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    1913 Fla. Acts 117
    (1913)
    An Act to Regulate the Hunting of Wild Deer etc., § 8: Prohibited hunting wild game with automatic guns.
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    1905 Fla. Laws 87
    (1905)
    An Act to Amend Sections . . . of the Revised Statutes of 1892, Relating to Breaking and Entering a Dwelling House. . ., Chap. 5411, § 2434: Enhanced the sentence of anyone breaking and entering a dwelling house or structure within the curtilage of the dwelling house with intent to commit a felony, or gaining such intent after entering, and is armed with a dangerous weapon, nitroglycerine, dynamite, gunpowder, or other high explosive, or takes possession of such items, or assaults any person inside. Violators punished by life in prison, or for such term of years as may be determined by the court.
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    1899 Fla. Laws 93
    (1899)
    An Act for the Better Protection of Passengers on Railway Trains in the State of Florida, ch. 4701, §§ 1-2: Prohibited discharge of any gun, pistol, or other firearm on any passenger train. Also prohibited reckless handle of any firearm or other weapon in the present of any other person on a train carrying passengers. Violators punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding six months, or both at discretion of the court.
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    1895 Fla. Laws 14
    (1895)
    No merchant, store-keeper or dealer shall keep for sale or sell pistols, Springfield rifles, repeating rifles, bowie knives or dirk knives, without first paying a license tax of ten dollars; Provided, Said pistols, Springfield rifles, repeating rifles, bowie knives or dirk knives, shall not be sold to minors.
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    1893 Fla. Laws 71
    (1893)
    Ch. 4147: Required a license to carry a Winchester or other repeating rifle. Licenses to cost a one hundred dollar bond. Violators shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or sixty days in jail.
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    1897 Fla. Laws 59
    (1897)
    An Act to Punish the Improper Exhibition of Dangerous Weapons, chap. 4532, § 1: Prohibited brandishing any dirk, dirk-knife, sword, sword-cane, gun, pistol, or other deadly weapon in a rude, careless, angry, or threatening manner not in self defense. Violators shall be punished by imprisonment not exceeding three months, or by fine not exceeding one hundred dollar, or both.
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    1901 Fla. Laws 57
    (1901)
    Ch. 4928: Amended 1893 Fla. Laws 71, ch. 4147 to include licensing for carrying concealed handguns. Violators fined one hundred dollars or jailed for thirty days.
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    1901 Fla. Laws 262
    (1901)
    § 33: That the Council shall have power . . . to regulate or suppress the sale and use of fire-crackers and all other fire-works, toy pistols, air-guns and sling shots; to regulate the storage of gunpowder, tar, pitch, rosin, saltpetre, gun-cotton, coal-oil and all other combustibles, explosives and inflammable material
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    1893 Fla. Laws 13
    (1893)
    § 14: Prohibited the keeping or selling of pistols, Springfield rifles, repeating rifles, Bowie-knives, or dirk knives by merchants, store-keepers, or dealers without paying a license tax of ten dollars. Violators punished by fined of fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail of not more than six months. Also prohibited the sale of these weapons to minors.