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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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1 Albert G. Hodges, A Digest of the Statute Laws of Kentucky 540 (1834)
(1809)
Authorized the arrest of individuals who willfully and maliciously stabbed, shot, or injured another.
2 Albert G. Hodges, A Digest of the Statute Laws of Kentucky 1267 (1834)
(1801)
Provided a six month to six year prison sentence for murder.
2 Albert G. Hodges, A Digest of the Statute Laws of Kentucky 1281 (1834)
(1802)
§ 13 provided one- to five-year prison sentence for wounding another nonfatally with a deadly weapon. § 15 provided one- to two-year prison sentence for assault and attempted robbery.
2 Albert G. Hodges, A Digest of the Statute Laws of Kentucky 1284 (1834)
(1804)
Provided one- to five-year prison sentence for wounding another nonfatally with a deadly weapon.
2 Albert G. Hodges, A Digest of the Statute Laws of Kentucky 1291 (1834)
(1819)
Provided that if any slave wound or attempt to kill any white person, that slave and their aiders and abettors would be punished by death.
1869 Wash. Sess. Laws 203
(1869)
An Act Relative to Crimes and Punishments And Proceedings In Criminal Cases, Ch. 2, § 31: Every person who shall assault and beat another with a cowhide or whip, having with him at the time a pistol or other deadly weapon, shall, on conviction thereof, be imprisoned in the county jail not more than one year nor less than three months, and be fined in any sum not exceeding one thousand dollars.
1854 Wash. Sess. Laws 80
(1854)
An Act Relative to Crimes and Punishments, and Proceedings in Criminal Cases, Ch. 2, § 28: Every person who shall assault and beat another with a cowhide or whip, having with him at the time a pistol, or other deadly weapon, shall on conviction thereof, be imprisoned in the county jail not more than one year, nor less than three months, and be fined in any sum not exceeding one thousand dollars.
1859 Wash. Sess. Laws 108-109
(1859)
An Act Relative to Crimes and Punishment and the Proceeding in Criminal Cases, Ch. 2, § 28: Every prison [sic] who shall assault and beat another with a cowhide or whip, having with him at the time a pistol or other deadly weapon, shall, on conviction thereof, be imprisoned in the county jail not more than one year nor less than three months, and be fined in any sum not exceeding one thousand dollars.
1847-48 Va. Acts 67
(1846)
Ch. 79, § 1: That if any person shall unlawfully shoot at another in any public square ... with intent in so doing to maim, disfigure, disable or kill such person, or to do him some other bodily harm, ... every such offender, his aiders and abettors, shall be guilty of a high misdemeanor. and shall on conviction, be punished by imprisonment in the common jail for a period not less than six months nor more than three years...
1915 Vt. Acts & Resolves 344
(1915)
No. 205, §§ 1-2: A person who uses a slungshot, black jack, brass knuckles or similar weapons against another person, or attempts so to do, or is found in possession of a slungshot, black§ jack, brass knuckles, or similar weapon, with intent so to use it, shall be imprisoned in the state prison not more than five years. A person who within the state manufactures or causes to be manufactured, or sells or gives away or parts with, or offers so to do, or keeps for sale or gift, a slungshot, black§ jack, brass knuckles, or similar weapons, shall be imprisoned not more than two years or fined not more than five hundred dollars nor less than two hundred dollars."
1787 Vt. Acts & Resolves 67
(1787)
An Act for the Punishment of Divers Capital and Other Felonies, § 4: That whoever shall be guilty of Burglary, by breaking open any dwelling-house, or shop, wherein are deposited goods, wares, or merchandize, or shall commit Robbery, if in the perpetration of said crimes the person or persons committing the same shall be guilty of any personal abuse or violence, or shall be so armed with any dangerous weapon as clearly to indicate their violent intentions; such persons found guilty as aforesaid, and being thereof convicted before the Supreme Court, shall suffer death.
1866 Utah Terr. Acts 51, § 14
(1865)
If such offender, at the time of such robbery, is armed with a dangerous weapon, with intent, if resisted, to kill or maim the person robbed; or if, being so armed, he wound or strike the person robbed; or if lie have :any confederates aiding and abetting him in such robbery present, and so armed; he shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of not exceeding twenty-five years, and not less than ten years."
1866 Utah Terr. Acts 54
(1865)
If such offender, at the time of committing such burglary, is armed with a dangerous weapon, or so arm himself after having entered such dwelling house, or actually assault any person being lawfully therein; or have any confederates present aiding and abetting in such burglary, he shall be punished by imprisonment for life, or any term of years."
2 Tenn. Comp. Stat. 52, tit. 12, ch. 2, art. 5, § 4628 (1852)
(1852)
If any person assaults and beats another with a cowhide, stick, or whip, having a the time in his possession a pistol or other deadly weapon, with intent to intimidate the person assaulted, and prevent him from defending himself, he shall, on conviction, be imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than two nor more than ten years.
1882 S.C. Gen Stat. 699, tit. 1, ch. 100, pt. 4, § 2472
(1882)
Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, metal knuckles, razor, or other deadly weapon used for the infliction of personal injury. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by confiscation of the weapon, and fined no more than two hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than twelve months, or both fined and imprisoned.
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).
1893 Or. Laws 79, An Act to Prevent a Person from Trespassing upon Any Enclosed Premises or Lands Not His Own Being Armed with§a Gun, Pistol, or Other Firearm, and to Prevent Shooting upon or From the Public Highway, §§ 1-3.
(1893)
It shall be unlawful for any person, other than an officer on lawful business, being armed with a gun, pistol, or other firearm, to go or trespass upon any enclosed premises or lands without the consent of the owner or possessor thereof. § 2. It shall be unlawful for any person to shoot upon or from the public highways. § 3. It shall be unlawful for any person, being armed with a gun or other firearm, to cause, permit or suffer any dog, accompanying such person, to go or enter upon any enclosed premises without the consent of the owner or possessor thereof; provided; that this section shall not apply to dogs in pursuit of deer or varmints.
1845-64 Or. Gen. Laws 531, ch. 43, § 527
(1864)
If any person shall assault, or assault and beat another with a cowhide, whip, stick or like thing, having at the time in his possession a pistol, dirk or other deadly weapon, with intent to intimidate and prevent such other from resisting or defending himself, such person upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one, nor more than ten years.
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.
1863 Dakota Terr. Sess. Laws 47, 49
(1863)
Ch. 4, §§ 9-10: Every person who shall break and enter any dwelling house in the night time, with intent to commit the crime of murder, rape, robbery, larceny, or any other felony, or after having entered with such intent, shall break any such dwelling house in the night time, any person being then lawfully therein, and the offender being armed with a dangerous weapon at the time of such breaking, or entering, or so arming himself in such house, or making an actual assault on any person lawfully therein, shall be punished by imprisonment in the territorial prison not more than twelve years, nor less than four years. Sec. 10. Every person who shall break and enter any dwelling house in the night time, with such intent as is mentioned in the last preceding section, or who, having entered with such intent, shall break such dwelling house in the night time, the offender not being armed or arming himself in such house with a dangerous weapon, nor making an assault upon any person then being therein, shall be punished by imprisonment in the territorial prison not more than five years, nor less than two years."
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.
1876-77 N.C. Sess. Laws 53
(1877)
Ch. 4, §§ 1-2: That if any person shall cast, or throw, or shoot, any stone, rock, bullet, shot, pellet, or other missile, at, against, or into, any railroad car, locomotive, or train, while the said car or locomotive shall be in progress from one station to another, or while the said car, locomotive or train shall be stopped for any purpose, with intent to injure said car or locomotive, or any person therein or thereon, the person so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by fine or imprisonment in the county jail, or the State prison, at the discretion of the Court.
1868-69 N.C. Sess. Laws 407-08
(1868)
Pub. Laws, ch. 167, § 7: Every person who commits any assault upon the person of another, with any deadly or dangerous weapon, or who unlawfully shoots or attempts to shoot at another with any kind of fire-arms, with intent to injure any person, without intent to kill such person or to commit any felony, shall be punished upon conviction, by imprisonment in the State's prison not exceeding five years.
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
1873 Nev. Comp. Laws 564
(1873)
Offenses Against The Persons of Individuals, § 41: If any person shall assault and beat another with a cowhide, stick, or whip, having at the time, in his possession, a pistol or other deadly weapon, with intent to intimidate and prevent the person assaulted from defending himself, such person shall, on conviction thereof, be imprisoned in the State Prison not less than one or more than ten years.
1872 Terr. of Mont. Laws 279
(1872)
Ch. 4, § 59: If any person shall assault and beat another with a cowhide, stick, or whip, having at the time in his possession a pistol or other deadly weapon, with an attempt to intimidate and prevent the person assaulted from defending himself, such person shall, on conviction thereof, be imprisoned in the territorial prison not less than one nor more than ten years.
Joplin, Mo., Code art. 67, § 1201 (1917)
(1917)
Prohibited the carrying of a concealed firearm, Bowie knife, spring-back knife, razor, knuckles, bill, sword cane, dirk, dagger, slungshot, or other similar deadly weapons in a church, school, election site, court, or other public setting. Also prohibits using the weapon in a threatening manner, using while intoxicated, or selling to a minor.
An Ordinance in Revision of the Ordinances of the City of DeSoto 52 (1888)
(1888)
§ 217: Whenever there shall be found upon the person of anyone who has been found guilty of a breach of the peace, or of conduct calculated to provoke a breach of the peace, any slung shot, pistol, or knuckles of lead, brass, or other metal, or when upon trial, evidence shall be adduced proving that such weapons were in the possession, or on the person of anyone, while in the act or commission of the act aforesaid, such person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
1880 Miss. Rev. Code 775
(1880)
Ch. 77, § 2983: If any person assaults and beats another with a cowhide, whip or stick, having at the time in his possession a pistol or other deadly weapon, with intent to intimidate the person assaulted, and prevent him from defending himself, he shall on conviction be imprisoned in the penitentiary not longer than ten years.]
1905 Minn. Gen. Laws 162-63
(1905)
An Act Amending General Statutes of 1894, § 6445, Relating to Manslaughter, ch. 125, § 1: By shooting another with a gun, or other firearm when resulting from carelessness in mistaking the person shot for a deer or other animal is manslaughter in the first degree
1927 Minn. Gen. Laws 407-08
(1927)
An Act Relating to the Minimum Punishment or Penalty for Felonies Committed while Armed with a Firearm, ch. 294, § 1: That if any person shall commit a felony, or attempt to commit a felony, while armed with a pistol, revolver, gun or other firearm, with intent to use the same in the commission thereof, the penalty therefor, including any additional penalty which may be now or hereafter imposed by any law of this State for the commission of a crime of violence while armed with or having available any firearm, shall in the discretion of the trial judge be imprisonment for not less than five years;
1925 Mich. Pub. Acts 473-476
(1925)
An Act to Regulate the Possession and Sale of Pistols, Revolvers and Guns; to Provide a Method of Licensing Those Carrying Such Weapons Concealed; and to Provide Penalties for Violations of Such Regulations, § 5: No person shall carry a pistol, revolver or gun concealed on or about his person or in any vehicle owned or operated by him, except in his dwelling house, place of business or on his premises, without a license therefor, as hereinafter provided.§
1913 Mich. Pub. Acts 452
(1913)
An Act Defining the Crime of Felonious Assault and Prescribing Punishment Therefor, § 1: Whoever shall assault another with a gun, revolver, pistol, knife, iron bar, club, brass knuckles or other dangerous weapon, but without intending to commit the crime of murder, and without intending to inflict great bodily harm less than the crime of murder, shall be deemed guilty of a felonious assault, and upon conviction shall be punished by imprisonment in the State Prison for a term not exceeding three years or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding one year, in the discretion of the court.
1820 Terr. of Mich. Laws 207, An Act For The Punishment Of Crimes, §§ 30-31.
(1820)
Sect. 30. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall unlawfully and maliciously assault another, with any offensive weapon or instrument, or by menaces, or in and by other forcible and violent manner and means, demand of another any money, or personal goods and chattels, with intent to rob him or her, or shall by day, willfully[1] and maliciously break and enter any dwelling house, shop, ware house, store house, mill, barn, stable, out house or other building whatever, with intent to kill, rob, steal, or commit a rape, mayhem or battery, then and in every such case, the person so offending, and each of the counsellors, procurers, aiders and abettors of the person so offending, shall, on being thereof convicted, be punished by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or solitary imprisonment, at hard labor, not exceeding ten years, or both, at the discretion of the court. Sect. 31. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall willfully[2] and maliciously enter, either by day or by night, without breaking the same, any church, meeting house, or place of worship, or any dwelling house, shop, ware house, store house, mill, barn, stable, out house or other building whatsoever, with intent to kill, rob, steal, or to commit a rape, mayhem or battery, then and in every such case, the person so offending, and each of the counsellors, procurers, aiders, and abettors of such offender, shall, on conviction, be punished by fine not exceeding three hundred dollars, or by solitary imprisonment, at hard labor, not exceeding five years, or both, at the discretion of the court."
1870 Md. Laws 892
(1870)
Ch. 473 §§ 1-2: Anyone arrested for any crime or misdemeanor and found to have any pistol, dirk-knife, Bowie-Knife, slingshot, billy, brass, iron, or any other metal knuckles, razor, or any other deadly weapon whatsoever. Violators fined not less than three but no more than ten dollars.
1859 N.M. Laws 94-96, § 4
(1859)
An Act prohibiting the carrying of Weapons, concealed or other-wise, § 4: Be it further enacted: That if any person in any baile or fandango, or in any public assembly of whatever class or description it may be, shall fire off or discharge any firearm of the class mentioned in the first section of this act, or shall cut or wound any person with any description of deadly weapon mentioned in the first section of this act, in any baile or fandango, or in any other public assembly, and any death shall result from said cut or wound so given, the person who shall so wound or cut, on conviction, shall be considered guilty of murder in the first degree, and shall suffer the penalty of death in the said first degree.
1887 N.M. Laws 55-58
(1887)
Ch. 30, § 1: That any person who shall hereafter carry a deadly weapon, either concealed or otherwise, on or about the settlements of this territory, except it be in his or her residence, or on his or her landed estate, and in the lawful defense of his or her person, family or property, the same being then and there threatened with danger, or except such carrying be done by legal authority, upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars, nor more than three hundred, or by imprisonment not less than sixty days, nor more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court or jury trying the same.
1912 N.J. Laws 365-66
(1912)
Ch. 225, 3: A person who attempts to use against another, or who carries, or possesses any instrument or weapon of the kind commonly known as a blackjack, slung-shot, billy, sand-club, sand-bag, metal knuckles, bludgeon, dagger, dirk, dangerous knife, razor, stiletto, revolver, bomb or other high explosive, or any other dangerous or deadly instrument or weapon, with the intent to use the same unlawfully against another is guilty of a high misdemeanor
1924 Ky. Acts 76
(1924)
Malicious Shooting, Stabbing or Poisoning; Deadly Weapon,§ 1166: Prohibited willfully or maliciously shooting at or drawing a gun on a person.
1934 Ky. Acts 169-70
(1934)
An Act . . . prescribing punishment for robbery or burglary . . ., ch. 52,§ 1159(a): That if any person shall commit acts of robbery, burglary . . . robbery of bank [sic] or safe, and in committing said act or acts shall use or display any pistol, gun or other firearms or deadly weapon of any character in so doing; upon conviction such person or persons shall be sentenced to death or life imprisonment in the discretion of the jury

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