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Ordinance No. 32, art. 3, § 1: Offenses Against Public Convenience, in The Daily Morning Alaskan, June 18, 1903, at 2
(1903)
Discharging firearms, fireworks, or explosives in Skagway required municipal permission; blasting also required a bond. Violators committed a misdemeanor punishable by up to $200, 90 days' jail, or both.
Ordinance No. 32, art. 3, § 10: Offenses Against Public Convenience, in The Daily Morning Alaskan, June 18, 1903, at 2
(1903)
Prohibited storing explosives within town limits or one mile thereof without written permission. Authorized storage was strictly limited, labeled, secured, and subject to inspection; violations carried fines, jail time, or both.
Dick Act of 1903, ch. 196, § 1, 32 Stat. 775, 775
(1903)
This militia consisted of all able-bodied male citizens between 18 and 45 years of age, and also aliens who have declared intent to naturalize. The "organized militia" was the National Guard of the several States. Everyone else was part of the "reserve militia," which later statutes labeled the "unorganized militia."
1907-08 Okla. Sess. Laws 562, ch. 59, art. 1, § 1
(1908)
The governor of the state shall be the commander-in-chief of the militia, and as such shall have supreme command of the military forces of the state while in the service of the state, or until they are ordered and accepted into the service of the United States. While in the service of the state, he shall have power at any time to muster out any militia organization of the state, and he may discharge any enlisted man, and he may cause to be mustered out and discharged any commissioned officers who shall wilfully [sic] neglect the duties of his office, or shall fail to properly account for public property or money in his possession, as such officer.
1909 Idaho Sess. Laws 55
(1909)
An Act to Define the Crime of Burglary with Explosives and Providing the Punishment Therefor, and Declaring an Emergency, § 1: Enhanced the sentence of any person who, with intent to commit crime, breaks and enters into any building, and attempts to open any vault, safe, or other secure place within said building by using nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gunpowder, or any other explosive, shall be deemed guilty of burglary with explosives. Violators imprisoned for a period of not less than ten, nor more than twenty-five years.
1903 Haw. Terr. Sess. Laws 55
(1903)
Ch. 8, § 25: Granted the Board of Supervisors of each county the jurisdiction and power to adopt rules and regulations for the keeping and storing of powder, Hercules powder, giant powder, kerosene, coal oil, benzoin, naptha, or other explosive or combustible materials.
Revised Ordinances and Charter of the City of Laramie 89 (1900)
(1900)
Hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person in the City of Laramie to keep, carry or bear upon the person any sling, catapult, spring or air gun, or nigger shooter, used for the hurling of missiles or stones, and every person violating the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction, be fined in a sum not exceeding five dollars.
Revised Ordinances and Charter of the City of Laramie 90 (1900)
(1900)
Any person who shall, within this city, fire or discharge any cannon, gun, fowling piece, pistol, revolver or firearm of any description, without permission from the council, or written permission from the mayor, or who shall, upon the street, sidewalks or alleys of the City of Laramie, fire, explode or set off any squib, cracker or other thing containing powder or other combustible material, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction be fined in a sum not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars, for each and every offense
1907 Wyo. Sess. Laws 96
(1907)
To regulate and prevent the transportation and storage of gunpowder or other explosive or combustible articles. . .
1909 W. Va. Acts 59
(1909)
Ch. 2, art. 4, § 7: [T]o regulate or prohibit the keeping of gun powder and other combustible or dangerous articles[.]
1909 W.Va. Acts 479-80
(1909)
Ch. 60, § 19: The carrying of any uncased gun in any of the fields or woods of this state, by any person not having the lawful right to hunt, pursue or kill game, birds or animals in such fields or woods shall, as to such person, other than the bona fide owner, or owners of such fields or woods, his or their child or children, tenant or tenants, lessee or lessees, be deemed prima facie evidence of a violation of this section
1905 W. Va. Acts 70
(1905)
Ch. 3, § 46: The council shall have power to pass ordinances prohibiting the firing of guns, crackers, roman candles, sky-rockets, or any other fireworks, or the throwing of fire balls, or the firing of any other combination of gunpowder or other combustible or dangerous material within the city. . .
1901 W. Va. Acts 197
(1901)
An Act to Amend and Re-Enact Sections Two and Thirteen of Chapter Sixty-Two of the Code of One Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety-Nine, ch. 89, § 1: No person shall shoot in the public road at any time, nor when shooting on the lands of another shall discharge any firearms on any lawn, pleasure ground or orchard or other ground which is directly appurtenant to or within gunshot of an occupied dwelling house. The penalty for violating this section shall be a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars, or imprisonment not more than twenty days, or both, at the discretion of the court, and pay the cost of the prosecution.
1901 W. Va. Acts 314, 320-21
(1901)
Act of Jan. 24, 1901, ch. 144, § 18: To regulate the keeping of gun powder and other inflammable or dangerous substances; to provide in or near the city places of burial of the dead, and to regulate the interment therein
Ordinance No. 8, §§ 1 & 5, Washtucna Town Council (1903)
(1903)
All persons (Except police officers and other persons whose duty it is to execute process or warrants or make arrests) who shall carry upon their persons any concealed weapons consisting of a revolver, pistol or other firearms (except by written permit from the Town Marshal) 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 can be inflicted upon the person or property of any other person All persons (except peace officers as aforesaid) who shall draw, exhibit or attempt to use any deadly weapon upon, to or against another person, in said Town, with intent to do bodily injury to such person; All persons (except peace officers as aforesaid and persons practicing at target shooting in a shooting gallery duly licensed) who shall, within the Town limits, fire off and discharge any gun, pistol or firearm of any kind or bomb...
Ordinance No. 56, §§ 15-16, Wenatchee City Council (1902)
(1902)
No person, except a police officer shall have or carry any bowie knife, pistol, sling shot, sand bag or other weapon concealed on or about his or her person; or fire or discharge any gun, rifle, fowling piece, pistol or other firearm within the limits of the town without a permit from the mayor and marshal.
Ordinance No. 3, § 1, Washougal Town Council (1908)
(1909)
All persons (except police officers and other persons whose duty it is to execute process or warrants or make arrests] who shall carry upon his or her person any concealed weapon consisting of a revolver, pistol or other firearms or any knife (other than an ordinary pocket knife) or any dirk or dagger, sling shot or metal knuckles, or any instrument by use of which injury could be inflicted upon the person or property of any other person in said town. And, all persons (except police officers as aforesaid and persons practicing at shooting in a shooting gallery duly licensed) who shall, within the town limits, fire off or discharge any gun, pistol or firearm of any kind, or any bomb, shall be deemed and are disorderly persons and guilty of a misdemeanor
Ordinance No. 3, § 1, Ridgefield Town Council (1909)
(1909)
All persons (except police officers and other persons whose duty it is to execute process or warrants or make arrests) who shall carry upon his or her person any concealed weapon consisting of a revolver, pistol or other firearms or knife (other than an ordinary pocket knife) or dirk, sling shot, or metal knuckles, or any instrument by use of which injury could be inflicted upon the person or property of any other person in said town; And, all persons (except police officers as aforesaid and persons practicing in a shooting gallery duly licensed) who shall, within the town limits fire off or discharge any gun, pistol or fire arm of any kind, except by permit from the mayor or any bomb, shall be deemed and are disorderly persons, and guilty of a misdemeanor.
Ordinance No. 4, §§ 5 & 10, Leavenworth Town Council (1906)
(1906)
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons within the corporate limits of said Town, to discharge or cause to be discharged any Pistol, Gun, or other firearm or firearms, loaded with leaden or other misle at any time, under any circumstances, within the corporate limits of said town, excepting officers of the law in the discharge of their duties, or in necessary and urgent defense of person or property. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons within the corporate limits of said town, to carry on or about the person any concealed pistol, revolver, dirk, bowie-knife, billy, slung-shot, metal knuckles, or other dangerous or deadly weapon or weapons of any kind, excepting only officers of the law in the discharge of their duties; and any person or persons so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be subject to the penalty hereinafter provided.
Tacoma Revised Charter and Ordinances 800-03 (1905)
(1905)
Ordinance No. 2284, § 1: All persons (except police officers and other persons whose duty it is to execute process or warrants or make arrests) who shall carry upon their persons any concealed weapons, consisting of a revolver, pistol or other firearms (except by written permit from the Chief of Police) 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 can be inflicted upon the person or property of any other persons. All persons (except peace officers as aforesaid) who shall draw, exhibit or attempt to use any deadly weapon upon, to or against another person within said City with intent to do bodily injury to such person.All persons (except peace officers as aforesaid and persons practicing at target shooting in a shooting gallery, duly licensed) who shall within the City limits fire off or discharge any gun or pistol or firearm of any kind, or bomb
Ordinance No. 408, §§ 10, 11, 28, & 29, Anacortes City Council (1909)
(1909)
Every person, except a peace officer, who shall within the city of Anacortes, have concealed upon his person or who shall furtively carry, or conceal any dagger, dirk, knife, pistol, or other dangerous weapon shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Every person who shall within the city of Anacortes, manufacture, sell or dispose of or have in his possession any instrument or weapon of the kind known as slung shot, sand club or metal knuckles, excepting a peace officer, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor... Any person who shall within the city of Anacortes sell or give or permit to be sold or given to any person under the age of eighteen years any revolver, pistol, or toy pistol, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Any person who shall within the city of Anacortes discharge any firearms, gun, cannon, pistol, air gun, bomb, or other dangerous explosive without having first obtained the written permission of the mayor thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Ordinance No. 4, §§ 3-5, Granite Falls Town Council (1904)
(1904)
Any person who shall in the usual walks of life, within the limits of the town of Granite Falls, carry any deadly weapon concealed about his person shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not more than twenty nor less than two dollars and costs of prosecution which costs shall be a part of the fine.Any person except a peace officer in the discharge of his duties who shall draw, exhibit or attempt to use any deadly weapon within the corporate limits of the town of Granite Falls upon, to, or against another person shall upon conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not more than fifty nor less than ten dollars, and the costs of prosecution, which costs shall be a part of the fine, or imprisonment in jail not more than twenty five, nor less than five days or by both fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the Court. Any person, except a peace officer in the discharge of his duties, who shall within the corporate limits of the Town of Granite Falls fire or discharge any gun, pistol or any other fire-arms, or who shall fire or explode any firecrackers, bombs, torpedeos, or any other explosive without first obtaining permission from the town council shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding Twenty dollars and the costs of prosecution which costs shall be a part of the fine.
Ordinance No. 260, § 5, Colfax City Council (1902)
(1902)
It shall be unlawful for any person within the corporate limits of the city of Colfax to discharge any fire arms, bomb or cannon fire cracker ,or to shoot any sling shot, or to flourish or exhibit any dangerous weapon in any manner that will cause terror to the people passing, or exhibit in a rude, angry, or threatening manner in a crowd of two or more persons, any pistol, bowie knife, or other dangerous weapon.
Ordinance No. 5, § 1, Kahlotus Town Council (1907) (Kahlotus, Washington).
(1907)
All persons (except Police Officers and other persons whose duty it is to execute or process warrants or make arrests) who shall carry upon their persons any concealed weapon, consisting of revolver, pistol or other fire-arm (except by a written permit from the Town Marshall) or any knife (other than an ordinary pocket knife), metal knuckles or any dirk or dagger or sling shot or any instrument by the use of which injury can be afflicted upon any person or property of any other person.All persons (except Peace Officers as aforesaid) who shall draw, exhibit or attempt to use any deadly weapon upon, to or against another person in said town with intent to do bodily injury to any such person. All persons (except Peace Officers as aforesaid and persons practicing at target shooting in shooting gallery duly licensed) who shall within the town limits fire off and discharge any gun, pistol or firearm of any kind, or bomb."
Ordinance No. 8, Div. 1, §§ 4-5 & Div. 3, § 1, Arlington Town Council (1903)
(1902)
Whoever shall, within the town of Arlington, carry or wear under his or her clothes, or conceal about the person, any dangerous or deadly weapon, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not exceeding thirty days, or be both fined and imprisoned.Whoever shall, within the town, draw any species of fire arms, or any dirk, dagger, knife or other dangerous or deadly weapon on the person of another, shall be subject to a fine of not less than five dollars, and not exceeding one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not exceeding thirty days, or be both fined and imprisoned. Whoever shall fire or discharge any cannon, gun, pistol, revolver or any fire arm of any description, or shall fire or explode, or set off any squib, fire cracker, torpedo or other thing containing powder or other explosive material, without permission from the town marshall or town council so to do, within the corporate limits. Provided that such permission, when given, shall definitely limit the time of such firing and may at any time be revoked; but nothing in this section shall prevent the ordinary and usual fire works demonstration on national holidays, subject, however, to such regulations, control and order as the marshal may deem proper to make for the protection of property from fire."
1909 Wash. Sess. Laws 98
(1909)
Ch. 54-Protecting Game on Lake Washington, §§ 1-3: That it shall be unlawful to fire any gun or to kill, shoot, entrap, ensnare, maim, or destroy any wild birds at any season of the year upon the waters of Lake Washington, or within one mile of its shores, and any person who shall kill, shoot, entrap, ensnare, destroy, or maim any wild birds at any season of the year upon the waters of Lake Washington, or within one mile of the shores of said lake, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as hereinafter provided.
1909 Wash. Sess. Laws 980
(1909)
Ch. 249, Subchapter 8-Crimes against the Public Peace, § 294: It shall not be lawful for any body of men other than Armed the National Guard or troops of the United States, to associate themselves together as a military company with arms, without the consent of the Governor; but members of social and benevolent associations are not prohibited from wearing swords. Every person who shall associate with others in violation of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor."
1909 Wash. Sess. Laws 984
(1909)
Ch. 249, Subchapter 8-Crimes against the Public Peace, §§ 307-308: Every person who shall aim any gun, pistol, revolver or other firearm, whether loaded or not, at or towards any human being, or who shall wilfully discharge any firearm, air gun or other weapon, or throw any deadly missile in a public place, or in any place where any person might be endangered thereby, although no injury result, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.No minor under the age of fourteen years shall handle or have in his possession or under his control, except while accompanied by or under the immediate charge of his parent or guardian, any firearm of any kind for hunting or target practice or for other purposes. Every person violating any of the foregoing provisions, or aiding or knowingly permitting any such minor to violate the same, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor."
1909 Wash. Sess. Laws 965, 977-78
(1909)
Ch. 249, Subchapter 7-Crimes against Public Health and Safety, § 283: Every proprietor, lessee or occupant of any place of amusement, or any plat of ground or building, who shall allow it to be* used for the exhibition of skill in throwing any sharp instrument or in shooting any bow gun, pistol or firearm of any description, at or toward any human being, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
1909 Wash. Sess. Laws 965, 966-67
(1909)
Ch. 249, Subchapter 7-Crimes against Public Health and Safety, §§ 252 & 254: Every person who shall make or keep any explosive or combustible substance in any city or village, or carry it through the streets thereof in a quantity, or manner prohibited by law, or by ordinance of such municipality; and every person who, by careless, negligent or unauthorized use or management of any such explosive or combustible substance, shall injure or cause injury to the person or property of another, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.Every person who shall put up for sale, or who shall deliver to any warehouseman, dock, depot, or common carrier any package, cask or can containing benzine, gasoline, naptha, nitroglycerine, dynamite, powder or other explosive or combustible substance, without having printed thereon in a conspicuous place in large letters the word "Explosive," shall be guilty of a misdemeanor."
1909 Wash. Sess. Laws 973
(1909)
An Act Relating to Crimes and Punishments and the Rights and Custody of Persons Accused or Convicted of Crime, and Repealing Certain Acts, ch. 249, ch. 7, §266, pts. 1-3: Prohibited the setting of any trap, spring pistol, rifle, or other deadly weapon. Punishable by imprisonment for up to 1 year or a fine of up to $1,000. Further punishable by imprisonment for up to 20 years for non-fatal or fatal injuries resulting from the trap.
1909 Wash. Sess. Laws 972-73
(1909)
Ch. 249, § 265: Prohibited manufacturing, selling, disposing of, or possessing any slung-shot, sand club, or metal knuckles. Also prohibited the concealed carry of any dagger, dirk, knife, pistol, or other dangerous weapon. Prohibited use of suppressors. Punishable as a gross misdemeanor.
1909 Wash. Sess. Laws 929, 931-33
(1909)
Ch. 249, Subchapter 5-Crimes against the Person, §§ 142 & 151: Every person who shall fight or participate in, as second or assistant, any duel within this state, in which any person is killed, or who, by previous appointment made within this state, shall fight or participate in, as second or assistant, any duel out of the state, in which any person is killed, shall be guilty of murder in the second degree; and, in the latter case, may be proceeded against in any county in this state...Every person who shall make or keep gun powder, or any other explosive substance, in a city or village, in any quantity or manner prohibited by law or by ordinance of such municipality, if an explosion thereof shall occur whereby the death of a human being is occasioned, shall be guilty of manslaughter."
1909 Wash. Sess. Laws 942, 947
(1909)
Ch. 249, Subchapter 6-Crimes against Morality, Decency, etc., §193, no. 4: Every person who Shall sell, or give, or permit to be sold or given to any person under the age of eighteen years, any revolver, pistol, or toy pistol Shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
1907 Wash. Sess. Laws 636
(1907)
Ch. 241, § 29, pt. 21: To regulate or prohibit the loading or storage of gunpowder and combustible or explosive materials in the city, or transporting the same through its streets or over its waters.
1901-02 Va. Acts 526
(1902)
Ch. 467, § 35, pt. 8: To direct the location of all building for storing gunpowder, fire-crackers, or other fireworks manufactured or prepared therefrom, kerosene oil, nitroglycerine, camphene, burning fluid, or other combustible material; to regulate the exhibition of fireworks, the discharge of fire-arms, the use of candles and lights in barns, stables, or other buildings, and to regulate or restrain the making of bonfires in streets and yards.
1902-03 Va. Acts & Resolutions 155-57
(1903)
Extra Session, ch. 148, § 6, pt. 18.The aggregate value of all shot-guns, rifles, muskets, and other fire-arms, bowie knives, dirks, and all weapons of a similar kind: provided, that all fire-arms issued by the State to members of volunteer companies, or for purposes of police, shall not be listed for taxation (along with other tangible property taxed at twenty cents per 100.00)
1908 Va. Laws 381
(1908)
Ch. 259, § 1: If any person carry about his person, hid from common observation, any pistol, dirk, bowie knife, razor, slungshot, or any weapon of like kind he shall be fined not less than twenty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or be committed to jail not more than thirty days, or both, in the discretion of the court, or jury, trying the case
1902-03 Va. Acts 331-32
(1903)
Extra Session, ch. 227, §2070a: It shall be unlawful for any person to shoot at, kill or capture any wild water fowl or wild turkey at any time during the night in this State. . . or to shoot at any game on land or water in this State with a gun larger than an eight bore. . . The possession of any of said guns, sneak boats, nets, traps, reflectors, or other unlawful appliances shall be prima facie evidence of the guilt of the person in whose possession they are found.
1901 Va. Acts 203, Extra Session, ch. 189, § 13.
(1901)
The council shall have, subject to the provisions of this act, the control and management of the fiscal and municipal affairs of the town; of all property, real and personal, belonging to said town; and may make such ordinances, orders, and by-laws and regulations as it may deem necessary to carry out the following powers, which are hereby conferred on it . . . to regulate or prevent the storing of gunpowder

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