FRC Jurisdictions Portal
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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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Item type:Item, Item type:Item, Compilation of the Ordinances of the City of St. Augustine 53 (1884)(1878-04-28)Imposed a $25 license tax on dealers of pistols, bowie-knives, and dirks.Item type:Item, A Compilation of the Acts of the Legislature Incorporating the City of Macon, Georgia 45-46 (S. Rose & Co. 1862)(1862)Required gunpowder to be stored in a public magazine, limited retail storage, authorized seizure of improperly stored powder, established a bonded magazine keeper, set storage fees, and required recordkeeping, inspections, and public auction of unclaimed powder to recover fees.Item type:Item, 1874-75 Va. Acts 282-83(1874)Ch. 239, § 6, sched. B(18): Included the value of all "rifles, muskets, and other fire-arms, bowie-knives, dirks, and all weapons of a similar kind" in list of taxable personal property, imposing a tax payable of 50 cents per 100 dollars of value.Item type:Item, The Charter and General Ordinances of the Town of Lexington 108 (1892)(1873)Prohibited the discharge of firearms and other weapons in public streets and alleys, punishable by a fine of one to five dollars.Item type:Item, The Charter and General Ordinances of the Town of Lexington 87 (1892)(1869)Penalized carrying concealed weapons (including pistols and bowie knives) with fines and forfeiture, except for officers on duty. Further prohibited supplying cigarettes or specified weapons to minors under sixteen, punishable by fines.Item type:Item, Charter of the City of Covington 148-49 (1864)(1864)Banned powder magazines, limited household gunpowder storage, and required licenses and safety measures for gunpowder sales.Item type:Item, Edward O. Wolcott, The Ordinances of Georgetown, Passed June 7th, A.D. 1877, at 100, § 9 (1877)(1877)Prohibited the concealed carrying of any pistol, Bowie knife, dagger, or other deadly weapon. Punishable by a fine of $5-50.Item type:Item, 1867 Ala. Code 169(1867)§ 434, pt. 10: Tax of $2 on pistols or revolvers in the possession of private persons, excluding dealers, and a tax of $3 on "all bowie knives, or knives of the like description." Non-payment was punishable by seizure and, unless payment was made within 10 days with a penalty of an additional 50%, subject to sale by public auction.Item type:Item, Item type:Item, 1876 Ala. Code 929–30(1871)§ 4406: Prohibited hunting wild hogs with a dog and gun without giving notice to "at least three freeholders in the neighborhood." Violators fined not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars. § 4407: Prohibited hunting deer by fire and with a gun. Violators fined not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars.Item type:Item, 1862 Ala. Laws 8(Ala. Statutes, 1862)Wartime tax of 5% on net profits of various businesses, including establishments that produced guns, pistols, pikes, and Bowie knives.Item type:Item, 1862 Or. Spec. Laws 8-9, An Act to Incorporate the City of Albany, § 6.(1862)[To] regulate the storage of gun powder and other combustible materials, and the use of candles, lamps and other lights in shops, stables and other places[.]Item type:Item, 1867 Nev. Stat. 66(1867)Ch. 30, § 1: 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.Item type:Item, 1869 Neb. Laws 53(1869)An Act To Incorporate Cities Of The First Class In The State Of Nebraska, § 47: Allowed the city council to license vendors of gunpowder.Item type:Item, 1868 Kan. Gen Stat. 378(1868)§ 282: Prohibited carrying a pistol, bowie-knife, dirk, or other deadly weapon while engaged in illegitimate business, under the influence of intoxicating drinks, or engaged in insurrection against the United States. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, fined not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisoned not exceeding three months, or both fine and imprisonment.Item type:Item, The Code: Containing All the Statutes of the State of Iowa 76-77 (1873)(1873)§ 453: Cities and towns shall have the authority to prevent injury and annoyances from transportation and keeping of gunpowder and other combustibles, and licensing of powder magazines.Item type:Item, 1876 Wyo. Comp. Laws 352(1876)That hereafter it shall be unlawful for any resident of any city, town or village, or for any one not a resident of any city, town or village, in said territory, but a sojourner therein, to bear upon his person, concealed or openly, any fire arm or other deadly weapon, within the limits of any city, town or village.Item type:Item, 1876 Wyo. Comp. Laws 273(1876)Prohibited the carrying of a pistol, knife, dirk, bludgeon, or other offensive weapon with the intent to assault a person. Punishable by fine up to $500 or imprisonment up to 6 months.Item type:Item, 1875 Wyo. Terr. Sess. Laws ch. 52, §1(1875)Prohibited the carry of any firearm or other deadly weapon with any city, town, or village.Item type:Item, 1879 Wyo. Terr. Sess. Laws 97(1879)It shall be unlawful for any person in this territory to fire any rifle, revolver, or other fire arm of any description whatever, from any window, door, or other part of any railroad car or train, engine or tender, or along the line of railroad during the passing of any train or engine, or when any person is passing in the vicinity of the person having such fire arm, and any person so offending, shall, on conviction, be fined in a sum not exceeding twenty ($20.00) dollars, and for a second offense, confined in the county jail for a term not exceeding sixty (60) days.Item type:Item, 1876 Wis. Sess. Laws 218(1876)Allowed the city to regulate the concealed carry "of any pistol or colt, or slung shot, or cross knuckles, or knuckles of lead, brass or other metal, or bowie knife, dirk knife, or dirk or dagger, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon."Item type:Item, 1877 Wis. Sess. Laws 367(1877)Allowed the city to regulate the concealed carry "of any pistol or colt, or slung shot, or cross knuckles, or knuckles of lead, brass or other metal, or bowie knife, dirk knife, or dirk or dagger, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon."Item type:Item, 1876 Wis. Sess. Laws 737(1876)Allowed the city to regulate the concealed carry "of any pistol or colt, or slung shot, or cross knuckles, or knuckles of lead, brass or other metal, or bowie knife, dirk knife, or dirk or dagger, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon."Item type:Item, 1874 Wis. Sess. Laws 334(1874)Allowed the city to regulate the concealed carry "of any pistol or colt, or slung shot, or cross knuckles, or knuckles of lead, brass or other metal, or bowie knife, dirk knife, or dirk or dagger, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon."Item type:Item, 1878 Wis. Sess. Laws 119–20(1878)Allowed the city to regulate the concealed carry "of any pistol or colt, or slung shot, or cross knuckles, or knuckles of lead, brass or other metal, or bowie knife, dirk knife, or dirk or dagger, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon."Item type:Item, 1872 Wis. Sess. Laws 17(1872)Prohibited the concealed carry of a dirk, dagger, sword, pistol, revolver, slung-shot, brass knuckles, or other offensive and dangerous weapon. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in state prison not more than two years, or one year in the county jail, or find not exceeding five hundred dollars with costs of prosecution. Sureties of the peace may be required up to two years post-conviction.Item type:Item, Wis. Rev. Stat. 1964, § 53 (1872)(1872)Any person or persons in this State who shall hereafter set any gun, pistol or revolver, or any other firearms, for the purpose of killing deer or any other game, or for any other purpose, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in a sum not exceeding fifty dollars, and shall be imprisoned in the county jail of the proper county for a term of not less than twenty days.Item type:Item, Wis. Rev. Stat. 1121, ch. 196, § 4834 (1878)(1878)Prohibited the carry of any dirk, dagger, sword, pistol, or other offensive or dangerous weapons. Violators required to post sureties for a term not exceeding six months, with right of appeal.Item type:Item, 1872 Wis. Sess. Laws 17(1872)If any person shall go armed with a concealed dirk, dagger, sword, pistol, or pistols, revolver, slung-shot, brass knuckles, or other offensive and dangerous weapon, he shall, on conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanorItem type:Item, Wis. Rev. Stat. 1960–61, § 37 (1872)(1871)No person shall at any time or at any place within either of said counties, kill any wild duck, brant or wild goose, with or by means of the device, instrument or fire arm known as a punt or swivel gun, or with or by means of any gun or fire arm other than such guns or fire arms as are habitually raised at arm's length and fired from the shoulder, or shall use any such device, instrument or gun other than such shoulder gun as aforesaid, with intent to kill any wild duck, brant or wild goose, under a penalty of fifty dollars for each and every offense.Item type:Item, The Code of West Virginia: Comprising Legislation to the Year 1870, at 703, ch. 153, §8(1870)Prohibited any person going armed with a deadly or dangerous weapon, without reasonable cause to fear violence. Individuals accused may be required to post a surety.Item type:Item, W. Va. Code 703, ch. 153, § 3(8) (1870)(1870)Ch. 153, § 3(8): "If any person go armed with a deadly or dangerous weapon, without reasonable cause to fear violence to his person, family, or property, he may be required to give a recognizance, with the right of appeal, as before provided, and like proceedings shall be had on such appeal."Item type:Item, W. Va. Code ch. 148, § 7 (1870)(1870)Prohibited the habitual conceal carry of any pistol, dirk, Bowie-knife, or weapon of like kind. Violators fined fifty dollars, informants receiving half the fine.Item type:Item, Code of West Virginia Comprising Legislation to the Year 1870, ch. 148, p. 692(1868)Prohibited habitually carrying concealed any pistol, dirk, Bowie-knife, or weapon of the like kind. Violators fined fifty dollars.Item type:Item, J. Nelson Wisner, Ordinances and By-Laws of the Corporation of Martinsburg 76 (1875)(1876)Prohibited operating a pistol gallery without a mayoral permit and required galleries to be sufficiently separated from residences to prevent noise nuisances. Violations were punishable by fines of $2–$30 and, for subsequent offenses, up to 30 days in jail.Item type:Item, W. Va. Code, ch. 153, §8 (1868)(1868)Required any person going armed with any dirk, dagger, sword, pistol, or other offensive and dangerous weapon to post a surety once a complaint was filed, having cause to fear an injury or breach of the peace. Appeals provided for the accused.Item type:Item, An Ordinance Defining Offenses and Fixing the Punishment Thereof, §27 Walla Walla City Council (1878)(1878)No person shall carry any concealed weapons within the corporate limits of the City of Walla Walla, and any person convicted thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than five or more than twenty-five dollars;Item type:Item, 1869 Wash. Sess. Laws 202(1869)An Act Relative to Crimes and Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases, Ch. 2, §§ 22-23: § 22. Every person who shall engage in a duel with any deadly weapon, although no homicide ensue, or shall challenge another to fight a duel, or shall send or deliver any written or verbal message, purporting or intending to be such challenge, although no duel ensue, shall be imprisoned, on conviction thereof, in the penitentiary, not more than ten years, nor less than one year.Item type:Item, 1873 Wash. Sess. Laws 186(1873)Ch. 2, § 34: Prohibited displaying any pistol, Bowie-knife, or other dangerous weapon to a crowd of two or more persons in a rude, angry, or threatening manner. Violators fined up to five hundred dollars and up to one year in jail.