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Kansas

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    Ordinance No. 79: An Ordinance Relating to Crimes and Punishments, in Scandia Journal, Jan. 5, 1894, at 8
    (1894)
    § 11: Every person who shall, within the corporate limits of the city of Scandia, discharge any firearm, rocket, giant powder, fireworks, or any other explosive material without first obtaining a permit from the mayor shall be fined twenty five dollars upon conviction
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    Sam Kimble, Revised Ordinances of the City of Manhattan and Rules of the Council 49-50 (1887)
    (1887)
    Section 12 prohibited carrying concealed weapons such as pistols, Bowie knives, dirks, or other deadly weapons. It also prohibited discharging firearms, fireworks, rockets, or other dangerous combustible materials in public areas, with limited exceptions for killing nuisance animals on one's own property or birds for scientific purposes. Violations were misdemeanors punishable by a $3–$10 fine. Section 13 prohibited giving, selling, lending, or otherwise providing pistols, revolvers, cartridge/cap-firing toy pistols, certain knives, slingshots, or other dangerous weapons to minors or persons described by the ordinance as being of “notoriously unsound mind.” Violations were misdemeanors carrying a $5–$100 fine. Section 14 made it a misdemeanor for a minor to possess pistols, cartridge-firing toy pistols, Bowie knives, dirks, brass knuckles, slung shots, rubber slingshots, or other dangerous weapons. The penalty was a $1–$10 fine.
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    Guy L. Hursch, Revised Ordinances and Rules of the City Council, of the City of Holton 1905, at 130, 134-35, § 19 (1905) (effective Aug. 8, 1888)
    (1888)
    No. 169, § 19: Any person who shall, within this city, discharge any fire arms in any public place or in any street, alley or avenue, or any person who shall discharge any rockets, powder, fireworks or other dangerous combustible material in the streets, lots, grounds, alleys, or about or in the vicinity of any building shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars.§Provided, however, that the provisions of this section shall not extend to persons making a display of fireworks by permission of the mayor and council of this city and under the direct supervision of a committee appointed by the same.
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    Ordinance No. 13: An Ordinance in Relation to Offenses Against Public Safety, in CORNING INDEPENDENT, May 16, 1890, at 3.
    (1890)
    § 3: Any person while exercising the right of carrying arms, and any other person, who shall wrongfully draw or threaten to use any arms to do any other act calculated to cause apprehension or alarm among the citizens of said city, shall, upon conviction thereof before the Police Judge, be fined in any sum not less than one dollar nor more than one hundred dollars.
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    Ordinance No. 6, THE WYANDOTT HERALD, Aug. 24, 1882, at 2.
    (1882)
    § 9: Any person in this city who shall draw any pistol or other weapon in a hostile manner, or shall make any demonstration or threat of using such weapon on or against any person, or any person who shall carry on his or her person in a concealed manner, any pistol, dirk, bowie-knife, revolver, slung-shot, billy, brass, lead or iron knuckles, or any deadly weapon within the city, shall be, on conviction, fined not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars; provided that this Ordinance shall not be so construed as to prohibit officers of the law, while on duty, from being armed, nor any citizen having a permit from the Mayor...