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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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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.
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 dollars
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 provided
Ordinance No. 2, §§ 2-3 & 7, Soap Lake Town Council (1919)
(1919)
That it shall be unlawful for any person to discharge any firearm or other dangerous weapon, at any place within the incorporated limits of the Town of Soap Lake.It shall be unlawful for any person to carry any firearm or other dangerous weapon, or to exhibit, flourish or to use the same in any manner having a tendency to put any other person in terror or fear; upon any of the public highways or other public places within the incorporated limits of the Town of Soap Lake...
Ordinance No. 758, §§ 1-2, Ellensburg City Council (1919)
(1919)
It shall be unlawful, for any person to manufacture, sell or dispose of, or have in his possession, any instrument or weapon of the kind usually known as slung-shot, sand club, or metal knuckles; or to fertively carry or conceal any dagger, dirk, knife, pistol, or other dangerous weapon; or to use any contrivance or devise for suppressing the noise of any firearm.
1935 Wash. Sess. Laws 599-601
(1935)
Ch. 172, §§ 5-7: No person shall carry a pistol in any vehicle or conceal on or about his person, except in his place of abode or fixed place of business, without a license therefor as hereinafter provided.
Charter and Ordinances of the City of Barre 116–17 (1904) (enacted 1895)
(1895)
Ch. 38, § 7: No person shall carry within the city any steel or brass knuckles, pistol, slung shot, stilletto, or weapon of similar character, nor carry any weapon concealed on his person without permission of the mayor or chief of police in writing."
1905 Utah Laws 60
(1905)
§ 1. Selling or giving firearms to minors under fourteen. Any person who sells, gives or disposes of, or offers to sell, give or dispose of any pistol, gun, target gun, or other firearm, to any person under the age of fourteen years, is guilty of a misdemeanor. § 2. Minor under fourteen must not carry firearms. Any person under the ager of fourteen years who shall carry, or have in his possession, any pistol, gun, target gun or other firearm, unless accompanied by a parent or guardian, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
The Penal Laws of the Hawaiian Islands 251 (1897)
(1896)
Ch. 54: Prohibited the carry of any Bowie-knife, sword-cane, pistol, air-gun, slung-shot, or other deadly weapon if not authorized by law. Violators fined no less than ten but no more than thirty dollars and imprisonment in hard labor camps no less than fifteen days but not exceeding two months. Note: Hawaii did not become US territory until 1898.
Theodore Harris, Charter and Ordinances of the City of San Antonio 183-84 (1899)
(1899)
Banned carrying concealed or personal weapons within city limits by imposing a $25 to $200 fine, but exempted military and militia personnel, law enforcement, travelers, individuals on their own property, and those facing imminent, unlawful attacks.
Revised Code of Ordinances of the City of McKinney 13 (1899)
(1899)
Ordinance No. 20: If any person in the limits of the city of McKinney shall carry on or about his person, saddle, or in his saddle bags, any pistol, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, sword-cane, spear or knuckles made of any metal or of any hard substance Bowie knife or any other knife manufactured or sold for the purposes of offense or defense, he shall be punished by fine not less than twenty-five nor more than two hundred dollars.
Charter of the City of Dallas, § 84, John F. Worley ed., 1899.
(1899)
The city council shall have full power and authority by ordinance to regulate, control and prohibit the carrying of firearms and other weapons within the city limits, and is hereby empowered to provide and inflict the same punishment therefor as is now or hereafter may be provided by the State law against persons unlawfully carrying weapons."
Willson's Criminal Statutes Art. 338
(1897)
"Arms.-If any person in this state shall carry on or about his person , saddle, or in his saddle bags , any pistol , dirk , dagger, slungshot , sword cane, spear, or knuckles made of any metal or any hard substance , bowie knife , or any other knife manufactured or sold for purposes of offense or defense , he shall be punished by fine of not less than twenty- five nor more than two hundred dollars ."
1909 Tex. Spec. Laws 270
(1909)
Ch. 7, § 18: Power to prevent and suppress riots, affrays, noise, breach of the peace, assaults, disturbances or disorderly assembly in any public or private place within the limits of said city, and to provide punishment therefor; to prohibit and restrain the firing of guns, and pistols in the city limits, and to prohibit and restrain the carrying of pistols.
Claude Waller, Digest of the Ordinances of the City of Nashville 364–65 (1893)
(1893)
§ 738: Prohibited the carrying of a pistol, Bowie knife, dirk knife, slungshot, brass knucks, or other deadly weapon. Punishable by fine of $10-50 for a first offense and $50 for subsequent offenses.
1931 Tenn. Priv. Acts 1089
(1931)
An Act to Be Entitled, "An Act to Incorporate the City of Murfreesboro in Rutherford County, Tennessee . . . ," ch. 429, art. 3, § 4, pt. 46: To regulate, restrain, and prevent the carrying on of manufactories dangerous in causing or producing fires; and to regulate and suppress the sale of firearms, and to prevent and suppress the selling, carrying, using or firing of pistols, rifles, guns, bowie knives, dirks, firearms, or other deadly weapons.
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.
1901 S.C. Acts 748
(1901)
No. 435, § 1: It shall be unlawful for any one to carry about the person whether concealed or not any pistol less than 20 inches long and 3 pounds in weight.
1903 S.C. Acts 127-28
(1903)
No. 86, § 1: [I]t shall be unlawful for any one to carry about the person, whether concealed or not, any pistol less than twenty inches long and three pounds in weight; and it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to manufacture, sell or offer for sale, lease, rent, barter, exchange, or transport for sale or into this state, any pistols of less length and weight.
1893 R.I. Pub. Laws 231
(1893)
Ch. 1180, § 1: Prohibited the carrying of any dirk, Bowie knife, butcher knife, dagger, razor, sword cane, air-gun, billy, metal knuckles, slungshot, pistol, or firearm of any description concealed upon his person.
The Charter of Oregon City, Oregon, Together with the Ordinances and Rules of Order 259 (1898)
(1898)
Prohibited the carrying of any slingshot, billy, dirk, pistol, or "any concealed deadly weapon," and the discharge of any firearm, air gun, sparrow gun, flipper, or bean shooter, unless in self-defense.
1903 Okla. Rev. Stat. Ann. 643-44 ch. 25, art. 45, § 583-592
(1903)
Prohibited the concealed carrying of any pistol, revolver, Bowie knife, dirk, dagger, slungshot, sword cane, spear, metal knuckles, or other kind of knife manufactured for defense.
General Laws Relating to Incorporated Towns of Indian Territory 37 (1890)
(1890)
Ordinance No. 11, § 3: Prohibited the carrying of any pistol; dirk; butcher knife; Bowie knife; sword; spear-cane, metal knuckles, razor, slungshot, sandbag, or a switchblade.
1893 Okla. Terr. Stat. 503, ch. 25, art. 45 § 1-7
(1893)
Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, revolver, Bowie knife, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, sword cane, spear, metal knuckles, or any other kind of knife or instrument manufactured or sold for the purpose of defense. Also prohibited the carry of any pistol, revolver, Bowie knife, dirk knife, loaded cane, billy, metal knuckles, or any other offensive or defensive weapon. Also prohibited the sale of the weapons above to any minors.
1899 Annotated Statutes of the Indian Territory, at 243-44, ch. 19, pt. 53, § 1250-52
(1899)
§Any person who shall sell, barter or exchange, or otherwise dispose of, or in any manner furnish to any person, any dirk or bowie knife, or a sword or a spear in a cane, brass or metal knucks, or any pistol of any kind whatever, except such as are used in the army or navy of the United States, and known as the navy pistol, or any kind of cartridge for any pistol, or any person who shall keep any such arms or cartridges for sale, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
1890 Okla. Stat. 496, ch. 25, art. 47, § 1-10
(1890)
It shall be unlawful for any person to point any pistol or any other deadly weapon whether loaded or not, at any other person or persons either in anger or otherwise.
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.
1895 N.D. Rev. Codes 1293, Penal Code, ch. 40, §§ 7312-13
(1895)
Prohibited the carrying of any slungshot or similar weapon, and the concealed carrying of any firearm or any "sharp or dangerous weapon."
1893 N.C. Sess. Laws 148
(1893)
Pub. Laws, ch. 191, §§ 1-3: That no body of men composed of more than three persons calling themselves detectives or claiming to be in the employ of any detective agency or known and designated as detectives shall go armed in this state.
1911 N.Y. Laws 443
(1911)
Ch. 195: The "Sullivan Law." Expanded criminal possession of all handguns, concealed or otherwise, without a government-issued license. Later amended in 1913 such that Magistrates could issue only if applicants proved "good moral character" and "proper cause." 1913 N. Y. Laws ch. 608, §1, p. 1629.
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
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.
Bloomfield, Mo., Rev. Ordinances ch. 12, art. 3, § 50 (1898)
(1898)
Sections 50–52 regulate weapons and firearms within the city. Carrying concealed deadly weapons, bringing weapons into churches, schools, elections, courts, or public gatherings, displaying them threateningly, carrying them while intoxicated, or providing them to minors without parental consent is prohibited. Violations may result in fines of $50–$200, imprisonment for 5 days to 6 months, or both. Exceptions apply to law enforcement, certain officials, peaceful travelers, and people with legitimate self-defense needs. Discharging firearms within city limits is also prohibited except by officers performing official duties, with penalties of $5–$20 or up to 20 days in jail.
Annual Report of the Park Commissioners of the City of Lynn for the Year Ending December 20, 1892, at 45 (1893)
(1892)
Prohibited discharge or carry of firearms, except for members of the police force.

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