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This top community organizes Firearms Research Center holdings by jurisdiction. It provides separate collections for U.S. states, territories, the District of Columbia, and the federal jurisdiction, spanning the territorial period to the present.

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  • Legal sources: statutes and session laws, administrative code, attorney general opinions, appellate decisions, and selected municipal ordinances.
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    1888 Terr. of Mont. Comp. Stat. 513.
    (1888)
    Ch. 4, § 66: It shall be unlawful for any person within the limits of any city, town or village in this territory, to bear concealed upon his person any dirk, dagger, pistol, revolver, or other deadly weapon.
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    1864 Terr. of Mont. Acts 355
    (1865)
    § 1 [Deadly weapons]: Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, Bowie-knife, dagger, or other deadly weapon. Violators fined not less than twenty-five but no more than one hundred dollars.
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    1864 Terr. of Mont. Acts 182
    (1864)
    § 35: Prohibited dueling and killing a person with a rifle, shotgun, pistol, Bowie knife, dirk, small sword, backsword, or other dangerous weapon. Violators guilty of murder in the first degree.
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    1887 Terr. of Mont. Comp. Stat. 549
    (1887)
    Criminal Laws, ch. 10, § 174: Prohibited the carrying of a any pistol, gun, knife, dirk-knife, bludgeon, or other offensive weapon with the intent to assault a person. Punishable by fine up to $100 or imprisonment up to 3 months.
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    1879 Terr. of Mont. Laws 359
    (1879)
    Ch. 4, § 23: Prohibited dueling and killing a person involved with a rifle, shot-gun, pistol, Bowie knife, dirk, small-sword, back-sword, or other dangerous weapon. Punishable by death by hanging.
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    1872 Terr. of Mont. Laws 279
    (1872)
    Ch. 4, § 59: If any person shall assault and beat another with a cowhide, stick, or whip, having at the time in his possession a pistol or other deadly weapon, with an attempt to intimidate and prevent the person assaulted from defending himself, such person shall, on conviction thereof, be imprisoned in the territorial prison not less than one nor more than ten years.
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    1887 Terr. of Mont. Laws 68
    (1887)
    Extraordinary Session, An Act to Amend an Act Entitled An Act Concerning the Storage of Gunpowder, § 2: No person, company, or corporation shall store, deposit or keep within the limits of any city, town or village, gunpowder, nitroglycerine, guncotton, dynamite, and other dangerous or powerful explosives exceeding fifty pounds, and no magazine or storehouse where such explosives are stored or kept, shall hereafter be located nearer than one-half mile from such city, town or village
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    1872 Terr. of Mont. Laws 562
    (1872)
    Ch. 63, § 1: It shall be the duty of any keeper of the arsenal, military stores, ammunition, arms and ordnance belonging to this territory . . . to report to the governor in writing the amount of such military stores and ammunition, and a list and description of such arms and ordinance in his possession and within his knowledge
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    1885 Terr. of Mont. Laws 74-75
    (1885)
    Deadly Weapons, An Act to Amend § 62 of Chapter IV of the Fourth Division of the Revised Statutes, § 1: Prohibited possessing, carrying, or purchasing a dirk, dirk-knife, sword, sword cane, pistol, gun, or other deadly weapon, and from using the weapon in a threatening manner or in a fight. Punishable by fine of $10-100 and/or imprisonment for 1-3 months.
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    1874 Terr. of Mont. Laws 46
    (1873)
    An Act to Prevent Parties from Shooting within the Limits of Towns and Private Enclosures, § 1: That it shall be unlawful for any person to fire any gun, pistol or any fire-arm, of whatever description, within the limits of any town, city, or village in this territory, or within the limits of any private enclosure which shall contain a dwelling house.
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    1864 Terr. of Mont. Laws 355
    (1864)
    An Act to Prevent the Carrying of Concealed Deadly Weapons in the Cities and Towns of This Territory, § 1: Prohibited the carrying of a concealed "any pistol, bowie -knife, dagger, or other deadly weapon" within any town or village in the territory. Punishable by fine of $25-100.

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