1883 Mo. Laws 76
| dc.coverage.spatial | Missouri | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-24T02:28:19Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-12T14:35:01Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-17T02:46:50Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1883 | |
| dc.description.abstract | An Act to Amend Section 1274, Article 2, Chapter 24 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, Entitled "Of Crimes And Criminal Procedure" § 1274: Prohibited the carrying of a concealed fire arms, Bowie knife, dirk, dagger, slungshot, or other deadly weapon to a church, school, election site, or other public setting or carrying in a threatening manner or while intoxicated. Punishable by fine of $25-200 and/or by imprisonment up to 6 months. | |
| dc.description.exceptions | Police, processors and executors of warrants and arrests exempt. | |
| dc.description.lawtext | Section 1. That section 1274 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri be and the same is hereby amended by inserting the word "twenty" before the word "five" in the sixteenth line of said section, and by striking out the word "one" in the same line and inserting in lieu thereof the word "two," and by striking out the word "three" in the seventeenth line of said section and inserting in lieu thereof the word "six," so that said section, as amended, shall read as follows: Section 1274. If any person shall carry concealed, upon or about his person, any deadly or dangerous weapon, or shall go into any church or place where people have assembled for religious worship, or into any school room or place where people are assembled for educational, literary or social purposes, or to any election precinct on any election day, or into any court room during the sitting of court, or into any other public assemblage of persons met for any lawful purpose other than for militia drill or meetings called under the militia law of this state, having upon or about his person any kind of fire arms, bowie knife, dirk, dagger, slung-shot or other deadly weapon, or shall in the presence of one or more persons exhibit any such weapon in a rude, angry or threatening manner, or shall have or carry any such weapon upon or about his person when intoxicated or under the influence of intoxicating drinks, or shall directly or indirectly sell or deliver, loan or barter to any minor any such weapon, without the consent of the parent or guardian of such minor, he shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. | |
| dc.description.summary | This 1881 amendment increased the maximum penalty under Missouri’s concealed weapons law by raising the maximum fine from $100 to $200 and extending the maximum jail term from three to six months. The statute continued to prohibit concealed carrying of deadly weapons, carrying weapons into specified public places, threatening display of weapons, carrying weapons while intoxicated, and transferring weapons to minors without parental consent. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/4446 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedbyGoogle | https://www.google.com/books/edition/Laws_of_Missouri/GTLOAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA76&printsec=frontcover | |
| dc.subject | CARRY - CERTAIN PUBLIC PLACES | |
| dc.subject | CARRY - CONCEALED | |
| dc.title | 1883 Mo. Laws 76 |