1882 Ga. Code 1181-82
| dc.coverage.spatial | Georgia | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-23T23:50:42Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-11T14:56:15Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-17T00:51:14Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1882 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Part V, Title I, Division IX, § 4528: Prohibited carrying any dirk, bowie knife, pistol, revolver, or any other deadly weapon in courts of justice, election grounds and precincts, places of public worship, and at any other public gathering. Part V, Title I, Division IX, § 4528(a): Any person who shall point a weapon at another shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. | |
| dc.description.exceptions | Militia muster grounds | |
| dc.description.lawtext | §4528. Deadly weapons not to be carried to public places. No person in this State is permitted or allowed to carry about his or her person, any dirk, bowie knife, pistol or revolver, or any kind of deadly weapon to any Court of justice, or any election ground or precinct, or any place of public worship, or any other public gathering in this State, except militia muster-grounds; and if any person or persons shall violate any portion of this section, he, she or they shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars for each and every such offense, or imprisonment in the common jail of the county not less than ten nor more than twenty days, in the discretion of the Court: Provided, that this section shall not apply to any Sheriff, deputy Sheriff, constable, stable, marshal, policeman, or other arresting officer or officers in this State or their posses, acting in the discharge of their official duties. Indictment sufficient, and this law not unconstitutional: 53 Ga., 472. What is a deadly weapon : 30 Ga., 138 ; 41/155 ; 15/223. §4528. (a.) Pointing weapon at another. Any person who shall intentionally point or aim a gun or pistol, whether loaded or unloaded, at another, not in a sham battle by the military, and not in self-defense, or in defense of habitation, property or person, or other instances standing upon like footing of reason and justice, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of this Code. | |
| dc.description.summary | Prohibited carrying any dirk, bowie knife, pistol, revolver, or any other deadly weapon in courts of justice, election grounds and precincts, places of public worship, and at any other public gathering. Moreover, made it a misdemeanor to intentionally point or aim a gun or pistol at another person unless it's done in a context such as military training exercises, self-defense, or protecting a person, property, or home. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/3573 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedby | https://archive.org/details/codeofstateofgeo1882prep/page/1182/mode/2up | |
| dc.subject | CARRY - CERTAIN PUBLIC PLACES | |
| dc.subject | SENSITIVE PLACES | |
| dc.title | 1882 Ga. Code 1181-82 |