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, Del Cary Smith, Ordinances of the City of Port Townsend 25 (1890)(1890)Sections 3-5 prohibited carrying concealed weapons, brandishing firearms or other deadly weapons, and challenging another to fight (dueling).Item type:Item, Revised Code of Ordinances of the City of McKinney 6 (1899)(1899)Prohibited the public discharge of firearms in McKinney.Item type:Item, Ordinance 21, in Green Forest Tribune, May 11, 1899, at 1(1899)Prohibited the sale, barter, exchange, disposal or furnishing, or keeps any dirk, Bowie-knife, sword or spear in a cane, brass or metal knuckles, or any kind of pistol or cartridge. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor.Item type:Item, 1890 Wyo. Terr. Sess. Laws, ch. 73, § 96 (codified at Wyo. Rev. Stat. § 5051 (1899))(1890)Every person, not being a traveler, who shall wear or carry any dirk, pistol, bowie knife, dagger, sword-in-cane, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon concealed, or who shall carry or wear any such weapon openly, with the intent, or avowed purpose, of injuring his fellow-man, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollarsItem type:Item, 1890 Wyo. Terr. Sess. Laws, ch. 73, § 95 (codified at Wyo. Rev. Stat. § 5050 (1899))(1890)Whoever draws or threatens to use any pistol, dirk, knife, slung-shot, or other deadly or dangerous weapon, already drawn, upon any person, shall be fined in any sum not more than one hundred dollars to which may be added imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six monthsItem type:Item, 1890 Wyo. Terr. Sess. Laws, ch. 73, § 97 (codified at Wyo. Rev. Stat. § 5052 (1899))(1890)It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, barter or give to any other person under the age of twenty-one years any pistol, dirk or bowie knife, slung-shot, knucks or other deadly weapon that can be worn or carried concealed upon or about the person, or to sell, barter or give to any person under the age of sixteen years any cartridges manufactured and designed for use in a pistol.Item type:Item, Utah Const. art. I, § 6 (1896)(1896)Declared a right of the people to keep and bear arms for their security and defense, but the legislature may regulate the exercise of the right.Item type:Item, 1890 S.D. Sess. Laws 72(1890)Art. 5, § 1, pt. 53: To regulate and prevent the storage of gun powder, tar, pitch, resin, coal, oil, benzine [sic], turpentine, hemp, cotton, nitro-glycerine, petroleum, or any of the products thereof, and other combustible or explosive material, and the use of lights in stables, shops and other places, and the building of bonfires; also to regulate and restrain the use of fire works, fire crackers, torpedoes, roman candles, sky rockets, and other pyrotechnic displays.Item type:Item, A. McMicken, The Revised Ordinances of the City of Rawlins 115-116 (1893)(1893)If any person shall within this city fire or discharge any cannon, gun, fowling piece, pistol or firearms of any description, or fire, explode, or set off any squib, cracker, or anything containing powder or other combustible or explosive material, without permission of the Board of Trustees, or the written permission of the mayor (which permission shall limit the time of the firing and shall be subject to be revoked by the mayor or Board of Trustees at any time after the same has been granted) every such person shall, on conviction, be fined in a sum of not less than five dollars and not exceeding one hundred dollars.Item type:Item, A. McMicken, The Revised Ordinances of the City of Rawlins 131–32 (1893)(1893)Prohibited a person from possessing or carrying a pistol, revolver, knife, slungshot, bludgeon or other lethal weapon. Punishable by fine up to $100 or imprisonment up to 30 days.Item type:Item, 1899 Wyo. Rev. Stat. 1252, div. 5, tit. 1, ch. 3, § 5050(1899)Whoever draws or threatens to use any pistol, dirk, knife, slung-shot, or any other deadly or dangerous weapon, already drawn, upon any other person, shall be fined in a sum not more than one hundred dollars, to which may be added imprisonment in the county jail not more than six months; Provided, That the provisions of this section shall not apply to a person drawing or threatening to use such dangerous or deadly weapon in defense of his person or property, or in defense of those entitled to his protection by law.Item type:Item, 1899 Wyo. Rev. Stat. 1252, div. 5, tit. 1, ch. 3, § 5044(1899)Whoever fights a duel, if death do not ensue, shall be fined one hundred dollars, and be imprisoned in the county jail not more than one year.Item type:Item, 1899 Wyo. Sess. Laws 32–33(1899)Allowed residents to receive hunting license for $1, non-residents to receive hunting license for $40.Item type:Item, 1899 Wyo. Rev. Stat. 1253, div. 5, tit. 1, ch. 3, § 5052(1899)This law prohibits selling or giving concealed deadly weapons to people under 21 and pistol ammunition to people under 16. Violators may be fined up to $50.Item type:Item, 1899 Wyo. Rev. Stat. 1253, div. 5, tit. 1, ch. 3, § 5051(1899)Every person, not being a traveler, who shall wear or carry any dirk, pistol, bowie knife, dagger, sword-in-cane, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon concealed, or who shall carry or wear any such weapon openly, with the intent, or avowed purpose, of injuring his fellow- man, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars.Item type:Item, 1899 Wyo. Rev. Stat. 600, div. 1, tit. 15, ch. 1, § 2106(1899)This law prohibits trapping ducks, geese, and swans, limits hunting of ducks and geese to a designated open season using only shoulder guns, and permanently bans the killing of wild swans. Violations are punishable by fines of $20–$50 per bird for illegal trapping, or $10–$25 per offense for unlawful hunting, with the possibility of up to 60 days in jail.Item type:Item, Charter and Ordinances of the City of Superior 390 (1896)(1896)Section 18 prohibited carrying pistols, slingshots, knuckles, bowie knives, daggers, or other dangerous weapons within Superior, except by authorized officers, punishable by a $10–$100 fine. Section 19 prohibited discharging firearms or fireworks without mayoral permission, punishable by a $1–$50 fine, with exceptions for lawful defense, law enforcement, and gun-club shotgun practice.Item type:Item, 1891 Wis. Sess. Laws 186(1891)Authorized the city to regulate or prohibit the concealed carry of any pistol, revolver, sling shot, cross knuckles, knuckles made of lead, brass, or other metal, or Bowie knife, dirk knife, dirk, or dagger, or any other dangerous or deadly weapons.Item type:Item, 1891 Wis. Sess. Laws 61(1891)Authorized the city to prohibit or regulate the carrying of any pistol, slung shot, knuckles, bowie knife, dirk, or any other dangerous weapon and to confiscate and sell such weapons.Item type:Item, The General Ordinances of the City of Milwaukee 692–93 (Charles H. Hamilton, ed., 1896)(1896)It shall be unlawful for any person except policemen, regular or special, or any officer authorized to serve process, to carry or wear concealed about his person, any pistol or colt, slung-shot, cross-knuckles, knuckles of lead, brass or other metal, or bowie -knife, dirk knife, or dirk or dagger, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon, within the limits of the city of MilwaukeeItem type:Item, 1891 Wis. Sess. Laws 699(1891)Authorized the city to regulate and prohibit the concealed carry of any pistol, revolver, slung shot, or cross-knuckles, knuckles of lead, brass or other metal, Bowie-knife, dirk-knife, dirk, dagger, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon.Item type:Item, The Municipal Code of Berlin §§ 258–61 (1890)(1890)Any person who shall fire or discharge any gun, pistol, fowling piece, or other fire arm, within the limits of the City of Berlin except in the necessary defense of his person or property, shall pay a fine of not less than one dollar, nor more than ten dollars for each offense. Any person who shall sell, loan or furnish to any minor, any gun, pistol, fowling piece or other firearm within this City, shall pay a fine of not less than five dollars, nor more than twenty-five dol ars[sic] for each such offense.Item type:Item, The Municipal Code of Berlin §§ 483–86 (1890)(1890)It shall be unlawful for any person, within the limits of the City of Berlin, to carry or wear under his clothes, or concealed about his person, any pistol, colt or slung shot, cross knuckles, or knuckles of lead, brass or other metal or bowie knife, dirk knife or dirk, razor or dagger, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon.Item type:Item, 1891 W. Va. Code 915-16(1891)Ch. 148, § 7: If a person carry about his person any revolver or other pistol, dirk, bowie knife, razor, slung shot, billy, metallic or other false knuckles, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon of like kind or character, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and fined not less than twenty-five nor more than two hundred dollars, and may, at the discretion of the court, be confined in jail not less than one nor more than twelve months; and if any person shall sell or furnish any such weapon as is hereinbefore mentioned to a person whom he knows, or has reason, from his appearance or otherwise, to believe to be under the age of twenty-one years, he shall be punished as hereinbefore providedItem type:Item, W.Va. Acts 14, 24.(1899)Act of Feb 16, 1899, ch. 4, § 28: To regulate the keeping of gun powder and other inflammable or dangerous substances; to provide for the regular building of houses or other structuresItem type:Item, 1890 W. Va. Acts 173(1890)Ch. 14: And it shall be unlawful for any person by the use of any swivel or pivot gun, or any other than the common shoulder gun, or by the aid of any push boat, or sneak boat, used for carrying such gun, to catch, kill, wound or destroy, or to pursue with such intent upon any of the waters, bogs . . . or any cover to which wild fowl resort within this State, any wild goose, wild duck or brant.Item type:Item, Ordinance No. A-17, § 2, Wilbur Town Council (1894)(1894)If any person shall within the corporate limits of the Town of Wilbur, fire or discharge any gun, rifle, fowling piece, pistol or any other firearm, they shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding twenty five dollars ($25.00) together with the cost of prosecution.Item type:Item, Ordinance No. A-17, § 1, Wilbur Town Council (1894)(1894)If any person shall carry upon his person any concealed weapons, consisting of either a revolver or pistol or other fire arms, or any knife (other than an ordinary pocket knife), or any dirk or dagger, slung shot or metal knuckles, or any instrument by the use of which injury could be inflicted upon the person or property of another, within the corporate limits of the Town of Wilbur, they shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than five (5) dollars nor more than One hundred dollars ($100.00) or imprisoned in the town calaboose not more than thirty (30) days, or by both such fines and imprisonment in the discretion of the court, provided that this section shall not apply to police officers and other persons whose duty it is to execute process or warrants, or make arrests.Item type:Item, Ordinances of the City of Tacoma, Washington 334 (Albert R. Heilig ed., 1892)(1892)Classified carrying, brandishing, or otherwise using or attempting to use certain deadly weapons, intentionally displaying or using a deadly weapon against another person, and discharging firearms or bombs within city limits as misdemeanors. Police could arrest violators without warrants, and convictions carried fines up to $100.Item type:Item, Tacoma Revised Charter and Ordinances, Ordinance No. 1183, §§ 1-2 (1898)(1897)No person within the limits of the city of Tacoma shall use, or attempt ot [sic] use, the instrument or contrivance commonly known as a slingshot, used for the purpose of throwing or propelling stones.Item type:Item, Ordinances of the City of Tacoma, Washington 333-34 (Albert R. Heilig ed., 1892)(1892)Prohibited the carrying of a concealed revolver, pistol or other fire arms or any knife (other than an ordinary pocket knife) or any dirk or dagger, slingshot or metal knuckles, or any instrument by the use of which injury could be inflicted upon the person.Item type:Item, Ordinance No. 79, § 1, Adams County News, Jun. 14, 1899, at 2(1899)Declared that all persons who carry concealed weapons, Brandish such weapons, carry weapons with intent to do bodily injury, and those who discharge firearms within the city limits are disorderly personsItem type:Item, The Municipal Code of the City of Spokane, Washington 309-10 (Rose M. Denny ed., 1896)(1896)No. A544, § 1: Prohibited the carrying of a concealed revolver, pistol or other fire-arms, or any knife (other than an ordinary pocket knife) or any dirk or dagger, sling-shot or metal knuckles, or any instrument by the use of which injury could be inflicted upon the person or property. punishable by fine of $25-100, cost of prosecution, and imprisonment until fines/costs are paid.Item type:Item, Ordinances No. 14, § 4, & No. 16, §§ 1-2, Prosser Town Council (1899)(1899)If any two or more persons, who shall, by mutual consent or agreement, fight together in any public place in said town, shall be deemed guilty of an affray, and, on conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars. Also prohibited the discharge of firearms in the corporate limits of the town of ProsserItem type:Item, Ordinance No. 11-An Ordinance Concerning Offenses and Disorderly Conduct, § 27, Ilwaco Town Council (1891)(1891)Any person or persons who shall fire off or discharge any ordinance gun, pistol. rifle or other fire-arms within the Town of Ilwaco shall upon conviction thereof before the Police Court pay a fine of not less than One nor More than One Hundred Dollars. Provided that the Mayor with the consent of the majority of the Committee on Health and Police may permit upon National holidays and other days and other days of public celebration the same which permit shall designate the time and locality of firing.Item type:Item, Ordinance No. 11-An Ordinance Concerning Offenses and Disorderly Conduct, § 7, Ilwaco Town Council (1891)(1891)Any person or persons who shall draw any species of firearms or any dirk, dagger or knife or any other dangerous or deadly weapon upon the person of another within the corporate limits of the Town of Ilwaco, shall upon conviction thereof before the Police Court be fined not less than Twenty ($20) dollars nor more than One Hundred ($100)2 dollars or by imprisonment in the Town jail not less than Ten (10) days nor more than Twenty (20) days or both at the discretion of the Court...Item type:Item, Ordinance No. 11-An Ordinance Concerning Offenses and Disorderly Conduct, § 34, Ilwaco Town Council (1891)(1891)If any person or persons shall use or caused to be used or encouraged the use of any bean-shooter. air-gun, cross-bow or other contrivance or invention used in shooting or throwing beans, stones pebbles, bullets, shot or other substance or thing in or upon any street, park, lane, alley or other public place in the Town shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof before the Police Court shall be fined not less than Two nor more than Forty $Dollars...Item type:Item, Ordinance no. 11-An Ordinance Concerning Offenses and Disorderly Conduct, § 51, Ilwaco Town Council (1891)(1891)If any person shall carry consealed or about his person or carry upon his person while in a state of intoxication, or while under the influence of alcoholic liquors any pistol, revolver, dirk, dagger, slungshot, knuckles of metals or other deadly weapons shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof before the Police Court shall be fined not less than Five nor more than One Hundred dollars. Provided that nothing being contained shall prevent a police officer or any officer or person whose duty it is to execute process or warrants or to suppress breaches of the peace or to make arrests from carrying such weapons in the necessary discharge of his duty.Item type:Item, Del Cary Smith, Ordinances of the City of Port Townsend 27 (1890)(1890)Div. 3, § 15: Whoever shall fire or discharge any cannon, gun, pistol revolver or any firearm of any description, or shall fire, or explode or set off any squib, firecracker, torpedo or other thing containing powder or other explosive material, without permission from the Mayor or common council so to do, within the city limits, shall, on conviction, be punished by a fine of not less than five nor more than twenty dollarsItem type:Item, 2 Ballinger's Annotated Codes and Statutes of Washington: Showing All Statutes in Force, Including the Session Laws of 1897, at 1957 (1897)(1897)§ 7085: That it shall be unlawful for any person, corporation or association of persons, or agents of any person, or member, agent or officer of any corporation or association of persons, to organize, maintain or employ an armed body of men in this state for any purpose whatever; and all parties so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor