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Start date: 1920Category: search.filters.subject.HUNTING REGULATION

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    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.
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    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[.]
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    1923 Vt. Acts and Resolves 127
    (1923)
    No. 130, § 1: Prohibited using, carrying, or possessing a machine gun or automatic rifle while hunting.
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    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. . .
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    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.
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    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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    1922 Miss. Laws 235
    (1922)
    Ch. 181, § 10(b): It shall be unlawful for any person to shoot wild water fowl with any shotgun of larger bore than number ten, or with any rifle or any gun which can be shot from the shoulder.
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    1925 Mich. Pub. Acts 108
    (1925)
    An Act to Create a District of Refuge in Ingham County to Be Known as "Pine Lake Wild Life Sanctuary" in Which It Shall Be Unlawful to Kill,Catch or Destroy Any Wild Game Animals . . . , § 2: It shall be unlawful for any person to hunt, trap, capture, kill or otherwise destroy any wild game animals, wild game or songbirds, their young offspring or eggs in the district hereinbefore described, or to molest the homes, nests or houses of such wild game animals, or wild game or songbirds. . . . It shall be prima facie evidence of hunting on said refuge for all person other than an officer charged with enforcing the provisions of this act to be found thereon with a loaded gun outside of his home or building owned or occupied by him.
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    1921 N.M. Laws 57-58
    (1921)
    Ch. 35, § 16: No game shall be pursued, taken, wounded or killed in the night, or with a steel or hard pointed bullet or with any weapon other than an ordinary shoulder gun or pistol, and the use of high powered rifles in hunting and taking migratory game birds is hereby prohibited.
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    1920 N.J. Laws 67
    (1920)
    Ch. 31, 9: Prohibits hunting fowl or other animals with any shotgun or rifle holding more than two cartridges or that may be fired more than twice without reloading. Violators fined twenty dollars.
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    1921 Kan. Sess. Laws 293-94
    (1921)
    § 4. . . . No person shall use ferrets or employ any smoke gun or other device for forcing smoke or any asphyxiating or deadly gas or liquid into the holes, dens, runways or houses of any fur bearing animals . . . . § 6. . . . [N]o bird be pursued with or shot or killed from a motor boat, or an aeroplane, or with a gun larger than ten gauge
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    1933 Iowa Acts 47-48
    (1933)
    Ch. 30, § 24: Prohibited the use of a swivel gun or any other firearm, except those commonly shot from the shoulder or hand in hunting of game. Guns larger than a 10 gauge prohibited.
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    1933 Haw. Terr. Sess. Laws 35-40 (Spec. Sess.)
    (1933)
    The 1934 Hawaii Firearms Act comprehensively regulated firearms and ammunition by requiring registration of most firearms and non-shotgun ammunition, permits to acquire firearms or ammunition, and registration of newly acquired weapons. It generally limited firearm possession to a person's home, business, or place of sojourn, with exceptions for lawful hunting and transportation. The Act prohibited possession of pistols and revolvers by persons convicted of violent crimes and banned machine guns, automatic rifles, bombs, silencers, and similar weapons. Concealed carry licenses were available only in exceptional cases upon a showing of good cause and suitability. The law criminalized altering firearm identification marks, created evidentiary presumptions in certain criminal prosecutions, exempted specified law enforcement and military personnel, authorized forfeiture of unlawfully possessed firearms, permitted revocation of permits and licenses, and imposed fines and imprisonment for violations.
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    1924 Ga. Laws 283
    (1924)
    An Act for the Protection of Game Birds in the County of Bartow, § 2: Prohibited hunting any game bird or animal within the county limits of Bartow using an automatic or repeating shotgun. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor.
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    1921 Fla. Laws 307
    (1921)
    An Act to Protect the Birds and Wild Life of the County of Orange and State of Florida and to Prevent the Hunting of Same During the Closed Season, ch. 8781, § 2: Prohibited anyone carrying a gun in the woods, field, or on the water such as those generally used for hunting game or having a gun during the closed season. Violators subject to arrest, fine, and imprisonment.
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    Game and Fish Laws of the State of Delaware 16 (1927)
    (1927)
    § 2381A. Sec. 24A: Prohibited the use of any silencer or noise-reducing contrivance on any gun, rifle, or firearm when hunting game or fowl. Violators fined twenty dollars for each offense.
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    1931 Colo. Sess. Laws 399
    (1931)
    Ch. 97, § 2: Prohibited the discharge of any gun, rifle, pistol, shot gun, or other firearm from any aircraft, airplane, airship while the same is in motion, with the intent or purpose to take, capture, kill, or attempt to kill any migratory bird.
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    Supplement to the Revised Code of Arizona 204 (2d ed. 1936)
    (1936)
    Game and Fish Preservation, § 1543: Prohibited hunting with a suppressed firearm. Also prohibited hunting deer or bear with a firearm propelling more than one ball or bullet per charge. Any gun used to kill songbirds or insectivorous birds shall be confiscated by the game warden as a nuisance.

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