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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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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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.Item type:Item, 1878 Va. Acts 301(1877)Carrying Concealed Weapons, ch. VI, § 7: If a person habitually carry about his person, hid from common observation, any pistol, dirk, bowie-knife, or any weapon of the like kind, he shall be fined not more than fifty dollars.Item type:Item, 1877 Va. Acts 305(1877)Ch. 7: Prohibited any person carrying a gun, pistol, Bowie-knife, dagger, or other dangerous weapon to a place of public worship while meeting for religious purposes. Violators fined not less than twenty dollars, and may be held without warrant for three hours by a "conservator of the peace."Item type:Item, 1879-80 Va. Acts 104(1879)Ch. 5, § 4, pt. 19: To direct the location of all buildings for storing gun-powder or other combustible substances; to regulate the sale and use of gunpowder, fire-crackers, fire-works, kerosene oil, nitroglycerine . . . the discharge of firearmsItem type:Item, Alexandria Gazette, Jun. 15, 1876, at 2(1876)An Act for Raising the Revenue for the Next Fiscal Year, § 2: Imposed a 10 dollar tax on shooting galleriesItem type:Item, 1875 Va. Acts 102(1875)Ch. 124: Prohibited the carry of any gun, pistol, Bowie knife, dagger, or other dangerous weapon into places of public worship without sufficient cause.Item type:Item, 1875 Va. Acts 109(1875)Ch. 100, § 12: If any person shall, at any time, either in the night or day-time, shoot at wild fowl in any county bordering . . . with any gun which cannot be conveniently discharged from the shoulder at arm's length without a rest, or have such gun in his possession on a boat, a justice of any such county shall require such gun to be surrendered, and shall order it to be destroyed, and shall fine the offender ten dollars.Item type:Item, 1875 Va. Acts 164(1875)Ch. 162: Approved a property tax on all males over the age of twenty-one on the aggregate value of all rifles, muskets, and other firearms, Bowie-knives, and all weapons of a similar kind.Item type:Item, 1870 Va. Acts 1206(1870)Tit. 54, ch. 191, § 7: If a person habitually carry about his person, hid from common observation, any pistol, dirk, bowie knife, or any weapon of the like kind, he shall be fined fifty dollars, and imprisoned for not more than twelve months in the county or corporation jail. The informer shall have half of such fine.Item type:Item, General Ordinances of the City of Winchester, Ordinance XXI (1875).(1875)Gunpowder. To be kept in metallic canisters in limited quantities: "It shall not be lawful for any person or persons or firm, for any purpose whatsoever, to store or keep within the limits of this city a larger quantity of powder than twenty-five pounds. All powder shall be kept well secured in a close tin or other metallic canister ; provided that larger quantities may be kept in such magazine or other place as the council may provide or designate for the storage of powder, subject to such regulations and charges as the council may prescribe."Item type:Item, 1876 Vt. Acts & Resolves 357(1876)No. 192, § 10, pt. 8: To regulate the manufacture and keeping of gunpowder, ashes and all other dangerous and combustible material.Item type:Item, 1878 Vt. Acts & Resolves 30(1878)No. 14, § 3: Any tramp, who shall enter or attempt to enter any dwelling-house or premises against the will of the owner or occupant thereof, or having entered any house or premises, shall persist in remaining therein against the will of the owner or occupant thereof, or shall kindle any fire in any outbuilding, school-house, or any other public or unoccupied building, or on the land of any person, or in the public highway adjoining the lands of such person between the first days of May and the first days of December in each year, without the consent of the owner or occupant thereof, or shall be found carrying any firearm or other dangerous weapon, or who shall threaten to injure any person or the property of any person, real or personal, shall be punished by imprisonment at hard labor in the state prison, or state work-house, for a term not exceeding two years, or by a fine payable to the treasurer of the State not exceeding one hundred dollars, together with the costs of prosecution.Item type:Item, Revised Ordinances and Resolutions of the City Council of Salt Lake City 161–62 (1875)(1875)Ch. 48, § 1: Be it ordained, by the City Council of Salt Lake City, that it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to keep, sell or give away, gunpowder, gun-cotton, or nitro-glycerine, in any quantity without permission of the City Council; Provided, any person may keep, for his own use, not exceeding five pounds of gun powder, one pound of gun cotton, or one ounce of nitro-glycerine.Item type:Item, The Revised Ordinances Of Provo City 105–07 (1877)(1877)Prohibited carrying a pistol, or other firearm, slungshot, false knuckles, Bowie knife, dagger or any other "dangerous or deadly weapon." Punishable by fine up to $25.Item type:Item, Laws of His Majesty Kamehameha V. King of the Hawaiian Islands 26 (1870)(1870)An Act to License the Carrying of Fowling Pieces and Other Fire-arms, chap. 20, §§ 1 to 3: Required a license from the Minister of the Interior to use or carry for sporting purposes any gun, carbine, rifle, pistol, or other fire-arms. Licenses were priced at five dollars. Violators fined fifty dollars for every offense. Failure to pay the fine led to imprisonment at hard labour.