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Item type:Item, The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Portland 364-69, 371-72 (1911)(1911)These Portland laws regulated firearms, gunpowder, explosives, and other dangerous substances. They required licenses for selling or possessing larger quantities of gunpowder, established safe storage and transportation requirements, and restricted fireworks, blasting, silencers, and toy pistols. Gunpowder generally had to be securely stored, covered during transportation, and kept within specified quantity limits. Firearms could not generally be discharged within city limits. Carrying concealed or threateningly displaying deadly weapons was prohibited without a license, with exceptions for certain law enforcement officers. Violations could result in fines, imprisonment, seizure or forfeiture of weapons or explosives, and other penalties.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, 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.Item type:Item, 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.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, 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."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, 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.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.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, 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 offenseItem type:Item, 1919 Wyo. Sess. Laws 17(1919)It shall be unlawful for any person or company to store any gunpowder or any other explosive material at a less distance than one thousand feet from any house or habitation, when more than fifty pounds are at the same place; but it shall be unlawful to place or to keep any powder or other explosive material, in any house or building occupied as a residence, or in any outbuilding pertaining thereto.Item type:Item, 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.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, 1915 Wyo. Sess. Laws ch. 91 sec. 13(1915)This law requires most non-citizens (aliens) in Wyoming to obtain a $25 annual gun and fish license before possessing firearms or fishing equipment, with exemptions for certain residents, taxpayers, settlers, employees, and holders of a $50 hunting license. Violations are punishable by fines of $25–$100, with imprisonment at the rate of one day per unpaid dollar until fines and costs are paid, and unauthorized firearms or fishing equipment may be seized and confiscated by law enforcement.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, 1913 Wyo. Sess. Laws 165(1913)Required nonresidents obtain a license for $5 from the Justice of the Peace in order to hunt game birds in the state.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, 1907 Wyo. Sess. Laws 96(1907)To regulate and prevent the transportation and storage of gunpowder or other explosive or combustible articles. . .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, Charter and General Ordinances of Madison 292–93 (1917)(1917)Every person, firm, association or corporation engaged in the business of selling firearms at retail in the city of Madison, shall at the close of business on each day during which any such person, firm, association or corporation shall sell any firearms, make a report to the chief of police, giving a brief description of each firearm sold and the name and address of the purchaser. It shall be unlawful for any person, except policemen or any officer authorized to serve process, to carry or wear concealed about his person, any pistol or revolver, 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 Madison. No person shall fire or discharge any cannon, or fire arm of any description, or any air gun, or fire, explode, or set off any squib, cracker or other thing containing powder. No person shall sell or place on sale, or give away or fire or explode any toy, cap or cartridge pistol or any fire cracker exceeding § inch in diameter and 2 inches in length; nor any so-called "dago bomb" or any similar bomb unless used for exhibition purposes and then only by an experienced agent."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, 1919 Wis. Sess. Laws 281–82(1919)to regulate the storage of gunpowder and other dangerous materialsItem type:Item, 1911 Wis. Sess. Laws 227–28(1911)§ 1. . . § 4393a-1. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to manufacture gunpowder or black blasting powder in any quantity whatsoever within the corporate limits of any city or village or within one hundred rods of any occupied dwelling house or any church, schoolhouse, town hall, depot or other place in which people are accustomed to assemble. § 4393a-2. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation engaged in the manufacture of gunpowder or black blasting powder to store, or permit to be stored on the land or premises where gunpowder or black blasting powder is manufactured, any dynamite or explosive other than that manufactured at such gunpowder or black blasting powder manufacturing plant or within one mile of any plant where gunpowder of black blasting powder is manufactured.Item type:Item, 1911 Wis. Sess. Laws 572(1911)§ 1728f. 1. No child under the age of eighteen years shall be employed . . . in or about establishments where nitroglycerine, dynamite, dualin, guncotton, gunpowder or other high or dangerous explosive is manufactured, compounded or stored[.]