1887 Ala. Code 93
| dc.coverage.spatial | Alabama | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-22T23:23:01Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-22T23:36:57Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-11T13:38:53Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-16T22:01:24Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1887 | |
| dc.description.abstract | These statutes prohibit dangerous and irresponsible uses of weapons in public settings. They make it illegal to use or attempt to use firearms while fighting in public places (unless in self-defense), punishable by fines and possible jail or hard labor. They also ban discharging firearms along or across public roads, with smaller fines attached. Additionally, they forbid selling, giving, or lending pistols or certain knives (like bowie knives) to boys under eighteen, with penalties ranging from moderate to significant fines. Finally, they prohibit the storage of more than 50 punds of gunpowder. | |
| dc.description.exceptions | Self-Defense | |
| dc.description.lawtext | § 4093 (4236). Storing gunpowder in city or town.—Any person, who keeps on hand, at any one time, within the limits of any incorporated city or town, for sale or for use, more than fifty pounds of gunpowder, must, on conviction, be fined not less than one hundred dollars. § 4094 (4228). Using fire-arms while fighting in public place.—Any person, who, while fighting in the streets of any city or town, or at a militia muster, or at any public place, whether public in itself, or made public at the time by an assemblage of persons, uses, or attempts to use, except in self-defense, any kind of fire-arms, must, on conviction, be fined not less than two hundred, nor more than five hundred dollars, and may also be imprisoned in the county jail, or sentenced to hard labor for the county, for not more than six months. § 4095 (4229). Shooting along or across public road.—Any person, who discharges a gun, or any other kind of fire-arms, along or across any public road, must, on conviction, be fined not less than ten, nor more than fifty, dollars. § 4096 (4230). Selling, etc., pistol or bowie-knife to boy under eighteen.—Any person, who sells, gives, or lends to any boy under eighteen years of age any pistol or bowie-knife, or other knife of like kind or description, must, on conviction, be fined not less than fifty, nor more than five hundred dollars. | |
| dc.description.summary | These statutes prohibit dangerous and irresponsible uses of weapons in public settings. They make it illegal to use or attempt to use firearms while fighting in public places (unless in self-defense), punishable by fines and possible jail or hard labor. They also ban discharging firearms along or across public roads, with smaller fines attached. Additionally, they forbid selling, giving, or lending pistols or certain knives (like bowie knives) to boys under eighteen, with penalties ranging from moderate to significant fines. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/3007 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedbyHathi | https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.35112105421780&seq=109 | |
| dc.subject | GUNPOWDER - STORAGE; DUELING; DISCHARGE; TRANSFER - MINORS | |
| dc.title | 1887 Ala. Code 93 |