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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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1921 Wyo. Sess. Laws 101
(1921)
It shall be unlawful for any person to take, kill, wound or destroy any of the game fish of this State by the use of any revolver, pistol, shot gun, rifle or fire arms of any kind or nature.
1925 Wyo. Sess. Laws 110
(1925)
Every person not being a citizen of the United States, who shall own, possess, wear or carry any dirk, pistol, shot gun, rifle, or other fire arm, bowie knife, dagger, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon, shall upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined in any sum not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) or imprisoned in the county jail not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
1925 Wyo. Sess. Laws 259
(1925)
Prohibits unauthorized armed military organizations from forming or publicly parading without the Governor’s license and bars public funding for them, punishable by fines, imprisonment, or both.
1921 Wyo. Sess. Laws 112–13
(1921)
It shall be unlawful for any person to take into the game fields or forests of this State, or have in possession while in the game fields or forests of this State, or to have in possession while out for the purpose of hunting the game animals or game birds of this State any device or mechanism designed to silence or muffle or minimize the report of any firearm, whether such device or mechanism be separated or attached to any firearm or not.
1928-1929 Wis. Sess. Laws 157
(1929)
Prohibited owning, using, or possession a machine gun. Punishable by imprisonment of 1-15 years.
1921 Wis. Sess. Laws 870
(1921)
No person shall hunt game with any means other than the use of a gun held at arm's length and discharged from the shoulder; or place, spread or set any net, pitfall, spring gun, pivot gun, swivel gun, or other similar contrivance for the purpose of catching, or which might catch, take or ensnare game . . . and no person shall carry with him in any automobile any gun or rifle unless the same is unloaded, and knocked down or unloaded and inclosed within a carrying case[.]
1925 W. Va. Acts 25
(1925)
Prohibited unlicensed carrying of a pistol, dirk, Bowie knife, slungshot, razor, billy, metallic or other false knuckles, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon. Punishable by imprisonment for 6-12 months for the first offense, and for 1-5 years for subsequent offenses, and in either case, a fine of $50-200.
1925 W. Va. Acts 30-31
(1925)
Ch. 3, § 7(b): Prohibited publicly displaying for rent or sale any revolver, pistol, dirk, Bowie knife, slungshot, other dangerous weapon, machine gun, submachine gun, or high powered rifle. Requires dealers to keep a register. Prohibited selling, renting, giving, or lending any of these weapons to an unnaturalized person.
Ordinance No. 1052, §§ 1-2, 5, & 8-9, Vancouver City Council (1920)
(1920)
It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, give away, purchase or receive any pistol, revolver, derringer, bowie knife, dirk, or other weapon of like character which can be concealed on the person without securing and requiring the proper license to do as hereinafter set forth. No person shall sell, give away or deal in the weapons herein specified without first obtaining from the Chief of Police of Vancouver, Washington, a license so to do
1926 Va. Acts. 285-87
(1926)
Ch. 158, §§ 1-9: Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it shall be the duty of every person residing in this State and owning a pistol or revolver therein, to pay on or before the first day of January of each year a license tax of one dollar on each pistol or revolver so owned, or in the event that such pistol or revolver shall be acquired by any such person on or after the first day of February, such license tax shall be forthwith paid thereon.
1923 Vt. Acts and Resolves 127
(1923)
No. 130, § 1: Prohibited using, carrying, or possessing a machine gun or automatic rifle while hunting.
1925 Tenn. Priv. Acts 298
(1925)
An Act to Create and Incorporate the City of Brownsville, in Haywood County, Tennessee . . . , ch. 92, § 25, pt. 21: To regulate the storage and transportation of illuminating oil and gunpowder and other high explosives, and to regulate and prohibit the use of firearms.
1929 Tenn. Priv. Acts 2018
(1929)
An Act to Amend . . . an Act Entitled an Act to Incorporate the Town of Lebanon in the County of Wilson, State of Tennessee . . . , ch. 685, art. 2, § 1, pt. 38: [T]o regulate or prevent the discharging, firing, shooting, or carrying of guns, pistols and fireworks in the City.
1923 S.C. Acts 221
(1923)
No. 148, § 19 (¶ 3): Prohibited the selling or giving to a minor a pistol or pistol cartridge, brass knucks, Bowie knife, dirk, loaded cane or slingshot. Also prohibited a parent from giving such a weapon to their child under 12 years old. Punishable by fine up to $50 or imprisonment up to 30 days.
1923 S.C. Acts 19-20
(1923)
No. 11, § 11: There shall be levied, assessed, collected and paid upon all ammunition, including shells for shotguns and cartridges for rifles, pistols, revolvers, automatic pistols, rifles and machine guns, and upon such shells and cartridges partially prepared for use but lacking powder or shot or other necessary constituent, and upon blank shells and cartridges (but not upon powder or shot or caps not prepared and not in form to use in modern firearms), when sold at retail or to the ultimate consumer, the following: Upon all shotgun or other shells, two ($2.00) dollars per thousand rounds; Upon all cartridges, twenty-five (25) caliber or greater, two ($2.00) dollars per thousand rounds.
1927 R.I. Pub. Laws 256, ch. 1052, §§ 1, 3
(1927)
Prohibited a person who has previously been convicted of a violent crime from owning, carrying, or possessing any firearm (including machine gun or pistol).
1929 Pa. Laws 777-78, No. 329, §§ 1-4
(1929)
Prohibited selling, giving, transferring, or possessing a machine gun. Punishable by fine up to $1,000 and imprisonment by separate or solitary confinement at labor up to 5 years. Also Prohibited using a machine gun during an attempted crime. Punishable by separate and solitary confinement at labor for up to 10 years.
1923 Pa. Laws 386, No. 228, art. 7, § 704(a)
(1923)
. . . It is unlawful to hunt for, or catch or take or kill or wound, or attempt to catch or take or kill or wound, game of any kind, excepting raccoons, through the use of what is commonly known as an automatic gun or an automatic firearm of any kind, or a swivel gun or an air-rifle or the apparatus known as a silencer, or from an automobile or vehicle or boat or craft of any kind propelled by any mechanical power. . .
1925 Or. Gen. and Special Laws 469-75
(1925)
it shall be unlawful for any person within this state to carry concealed upon his person or within any vehicle which is under his control or direction any pistol, revolver or other firearm capable of being concealed upon the person without having a license to carry such firearm, as hereinafter provided in section 8 hereof
1925 Or. Gen. and Special Laws 42, ch. 31, §§ 1-2
(1925)
Prohibited the setting of any loaded spring gun. Punishable by a fine of $100-500 or imprisonment for 30 days to 6 months. Exception for setting of trap gun to destroy burrowing rodents.
1925 Or. Gen. and Special Laws 172-73, ch. 117, § 1.
(1925)
It shall be unlawful for any person over the age of twelve years, with or without malice, purposely to point or aim any pistol, gun, revolver or other firearm, within range of said firearm, either loaded or empty, at or toward any other person, except in self defense; and any person so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined in any sum not less than $10 nor more than $500
1925 N.D. Laws 216-17
(1925)
Ch. 174, § 2: Committing Crime When Armed. If any person shall commit, or attempt to commit, a crime when armed with a pistol or revolver, and has no permit to carry the same, he may be punished by imprisonment for not more than ten years, in addition to the punishment provided for the crime. Such imprisonment, if not exceeding one year, to be in the County jail, and if exceeding one year to be in the State Penitentiary.
1923 N.D. Laws 380-83
(1923)
Ch. 266, § 2: Commiting Crime When Armed. If any person shall commit or attempt to commit a crime when armed with a pistol or revolver, and having no permit to carry the same, he shall be in addition to the punishment provided for the crime, be punished by imprisonment for not less than ten years.
1921 N.D. Laws 173
(1921)
Ch. 97, § 13: Provided, however, that if the evidence in such case convinces the court that the person convicted of transporting intoxicating liquors in violation of this Act, was in charge of and used any wagon, buggy, automobile, water or aircraft, or other vehicle or conveyance not owned by him, or without permission of the owner, or when such vehicle or conveyance so sued was mortgaged property, or if there be in or upon such conveyance so used or upon any person therein any firearms, or guns, he shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than six months and not more than five years.
1925 N.C. Sess. Laws 530
(1925)
Pub.-Local Laws, ch. 460, § 4: It shall be unlawful to trap for bear or to run or hunt deer with dogs or to use while hunting any gun having a "Maxim silencer" or any other device thereon that will muffle the report of such gun, nor shall any gun be used that does not produce when discharged the usual and ordinary report.
1921 N.C. Sess. Laws 54
(1921)
Pub. Laws Extra Sess., ch. 6, § 3: That any person who shall carry a pistol, revolver, or gun in any park or reservation such as is described in section one of this act, without having first obtained the written permission of the owner or manager of said park or reservation, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, or shall be fined or imprisoned, in the discretion of the court, for each and every offense.
1921 N.C. Sess. Laws 105
(1921)
Pub. Laws, ch. 5, §§ 1-2: Any person who, with intent to commit crime, breaks and enters, either by day or by night, any building, whether inhabited or not, and opens or attempts to open any vault, safe, or other secure place by use of nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gunpowder, or any other explosive, or acetylene torch, shall be deemed guilty of burglary with explosives
1923 N.Y. Laws 140-41
(1923)
An Act to Amend the Conservation Law in Relation to Aliens, ch. 110, § 2: Prohibited noncitizens from owning or possessing any shotgun or rifle without a special license.
1923 N.H. Laws 138-141
(1923)
Provided that sections 1-13 of the act should not apply to antique pistols or revolvers used as such
1925 Nev. Stat. 54
(1925)
Ch. 47, § 1 ; Prohibited the manufacture, importation, sells, gives, lends, or possesses a blackjack, slung-shot, billy, sandclub, sandbag, or metal knuckles. Also prohibited the conceal carry of any explosive substance, dirk, or dagger. Violators guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment not less than one but no more than five years.
1929 Nev. Stat. 201, 219-20
(1929)
Ch. 153, § 62: It shall not be lawful for any body of men whatever, other than the Nevada state police, the regular organized national guard of this state, and the troops of the United States, to associate themselves together as a military company or organization, to drill or parade with arms in any city or town of this state, without the license of the governor thereof, which license may at any time be revoked;
1929 Neb. Laws 673-74
(1929)
Ch. 190, §§ 1-2: Prohibited selling or otherwise disposing of a machine gun. Punishable by fine of $1,000-$10,000. Also Prohibited transporting or possessing a machine gun. Punishable by imprisonment for 1-10 years.
1929 Mo. Laws 170
(1929)
Crimes and Punishment, Prohibiting the Sale, Delivery, Transportation, Possession, or Control of Machine Rifles, Machine Guns and Sub-machine Guns, and Providing Penalty for Violation of Law, §§ 1-2: Prohibited selling, delivering, transporting, and possessing a machine gun. Punishable by imprisonment of 2-30 years and/or fine up to $5,000.
Mo. Rev. Stat. 287, ch. 52, § 6605a16 (1923)
(1923)
Prohibited the carrying, while a passenger or operating a moving vehicle, of a revolver, gun or other firearm, or explosive, any Bowie knife, or other knife having a blade of more than two and one-half inches in length, any slingshot, brass knucks, billy, club or other dangerous weapon. Punishable by imprisonment of minimum 2 years.
1921 Mo. Laws 693, § 3
(1921)
Weapons, Firearms: Regulation of Sale and Possession, § 3: No person within this state shall lease, buy or in anywise procure the possession from any person, firm or corporation within or without the state, of any pistol, revolver or other firearm of a size which may be concealed upon the person, that is not stamped as required by section 1 of this act; and no person shall buy or otherwise acquire the possession of any such article unless he shall have first procured a written permit so to do from the circuit clerk of the county in which such person resides, in the manner as provided in section 2 of this act.
1921 Mo. Laws 693, § 4
(1921)
Weapons, Firearms: Regulation of Sale and Possession, § 4: Nothing herein contained shall be considered or construed as forbidding or making it unlawful for a dealer in or manufacturer of pistols, revolvers or other firearms of a size which may be concealed upon the person, located in this state, to ship into other states or foreign countries, any such articles whether stamped as required by this act or not so stamped.
1921 Mo. Laws 692
(1921)
Weapons, Firearms: Regulation of Sale and Possession, § 2: No person, other than a manufacturer or wholesaler thereof to or from a wholesale or retail dealer therein, for the purposes of commerce, shall directly or indirectly buy, sell, borrow, loan, give away, trade, barter; deliver or receive, in this state, any pistol, revolver or other firearm of a size which may be concealed upon the person, unless the buyer, borrower or person receiving such weapon shall first obtain and deliver to, and the same be demanded and received by, the seller, loaner, or person delivering such weapon, within thirty days after the issuance thereof, a permit authorizing such person to acquire such weapon
1921 Mo. Laws 691-92
(1921)
Weapons, Firearms: Regulation of Sale and Possession, § 1: No wholesaler or dealer therein shall have in his possession for the purpose of sale, or shall sell, any pistol, revolver, or other firearm of a size which may be concealed upon the person, which does not have plainly and permanently stamped ,upon the metallic portion thereof, the trademark or name of the maker, the model and the serial factory number thereof, which number shall not be the same as that of any other such weapon of the same model made by the same maker, and the maker, and no wholesale or retail dealer therein shall have in his possession for the purpose of sale, or shall sell, any such weapon unless he keep a full and complete record of such description of such weapon, the name and address of the person from whom purchased and to whom sold, the date of such purchase or sale, and in the' case of retailers the date of the permit and the name of the circuit clerk granting the same, which record shall be open to inspection at all times by any police officer or other peace officer of this state.
1926 Miss. Laws 272
(1926)
Ch. 176, §§ 1-2: [A]ny person, who, with intent to commit crime, breaks and enters, either by day or by night, any building, whether inhabited or not, and opens or attempts to open any vault, safe or other secure place by the use of nitroglycerine, dynamite, gunpowder or any other explosive, shall be deemed guilty of burglary with explosives. § 2. Any person duly convicted of burglary with explosives shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of not less than twenty-five nor more than forty years.
1924 Miss. Laws 554
(1924)
Ch. 323, § 2: It shall be unlawful for any person to hunt with gun or dog on any sanctuary or preserve for birds and game, or to rob or destroy the nests of any birds, or to catch, snare, trap, or net any birds within any such prescribed limits, and any person found with gun or dog on or within such prescribed limits, shall be prima facie presumed to be hunting in violation of this act.

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