1 Digest of the Laws of the State of Florida, From the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty-Two, to the Eleventh Day of March, One Thousand Eight Hundred Eighty-One Inclusive 403 (James F. McClellan ed., 1881)
| dc.coverage.spatial | Florida | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-23T23:45:41Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-11T14:51:51Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-17T00:25:12Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1881 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Criminalized possessing dangerous weapons during arrests, manufacturing or selling slung shots/metallic knuckles, and secretly carrying weapons, punished by fines and/or jail time. | |
| dc.description.lawtext | Sec. 11. Whoever, whenever arrested upon a warrant of a magistrate issued against him for an alleged offence against the laws of this State, and whoever when arrested by a sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, police officer, or watchman, while committing a criminal offence against the laws of this State, or a breach or disturbance of the public peace, is armed with, or has on his person, slung shot, metallic knuckles, billies or other dangerous weapon, shall be punished by fine not exceeding fifty dollars, and by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year. (d) Sec. 12. Whoever manufactures, or causes to be manufactured, or sells, or exposes for sale, any instrument or weapon of the kind usually known as slung shot, or metallic knuckles, shall be punished by fine not less than fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months. (d) Sec. 13. Whoever shall carry arms of any kind whatever, secretly, on or about their person, or whoever shall have about or on their person any dirk, pistol or other arm or weapon, except a common pocket-knife, upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding six months. (d) | |
| dc.description.summary | This law punishes the manufacture, sale, or exposure for sale of slung shots or metallic knuckles with a fine of at least $50 or up to six months in jail. It also makes it illegal to carry concealed weapons (except a common pocket knife), with penalties of a fine up to $100 or imprisonment for up to six months. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/3520 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedbyGoogle | https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=9GASAAAAYAAJ&pg=GBS.PA403 | |
| dc.subject | TRANSFER, MANUFACTURE & POSSESSION - NON-GUN ARMS | |
| dc.subject | CARRY | |
| dc.subject | CARRY | |
| dc.title | 1 Digest of the Laws of the State of Florida, From the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty-Two, to the Eleventh Day of March, One Thousand Eight Hundred Eighty-One Inclusive 403 (James F. McClellan ed., 1881) |