Maryland
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Item Open Access 1 ARCHIVES OF MARYLAND 77 (enacted 1639) (William Hand Browne ed., 1885)(General Publisher, 1639)Required "every housekeeeper" to keep and bear one gun of "bastard muskett boare" design, bandeloors or shott bag, one pound of powder, four pounds of pistol or musket shot, sufficient quantity of matchlocks & flints, a sword, and belt.Item Open Access 1647 Md. Laws 216, § 6(General Publisher, 1647)Banned carry of weapons in the House of Assembly, while the Assembly was sitting.Item Open Access 1650 Md. Laws 273, § 5(General Publisher, 1650)Banned carry of weapons in the House of Assembly, while the Assembly was sitting.Item Open Access 1715 Md. Laws 117, An Act for the Speedy Trial of Criminals, and Ascertaining Their Punishment in the County Courts When Prosecuted There, and For Payment of Fees Due From Criminal Persons, ch. 26, § 32(General Publisher, 1715)Prohibited “any negro or other slave” from carrying any gun or offensive weapon off their master’s land without a ticket.Item Open Access 1715 Md. Laws 90, An Act for the speedy trial of criminals, and ascertaining their punishment in the county courts when prosecuted there, and for payment of fees due from criminal persons, chap. 26, § 7(General Publisher, 1715)And, to prevent the abusing, hurting or worrying of any stock of hogs, cattle or horses, with dogs, or otherwise, Be It Enacted, That if any person or persons whatsoever, that have been convicted of any of the crimes aforesaid, or other crimes, or that shall be of evil fame, or a vagrant, or dissolute liver, that shall shoot, kill or hunt, or be seen to carry a gun, upon any person’s land, whereon there shall be a seated plantation, without the owner’s leave, having been once before warned, shall forfeit and pay one thousand pounds of tobacco...Item Open Access 1757-68 Md. Acts 53, An Act for Prohibiting All Trade with the Indians, for the Time Therein Mentioned, ch. 4, § 3(General Publisher, 1763)Prohibited the selling and giving to “any Indian Woman” any gunpowder or to “any Indian Man” more than one pound of gunpowder, punishable by fine.Item Open Access 1794 Md. Laws 246, Art. 32(General Publisher, 1794)That if any member of society shall suffer any damage by storing gunpowder in town, or breaming ships or other vessels at the wharfs, occasioned by the act, assent or direction, of such member, the insurance of such member so suffering damage, shall thereupon become void.Item Open Access 1806 Md. Laws 44, An Act to Restrain the Evil Practices Arising From Negroes Keeping Dogs, and to Prohibit Them From Carrying Guns or Offensive Weapons, ch. 81(General Publisher, 1806)Prohibited “any negro or mulatto” from keeping a dog or gun, except any “free negro or mulatto” who has a license for such purpose.Item Open Access 1837 Md. Acts Ch. 101, An Act for the Preservation of Wild Fowl in the Waters of Smith’s Island and its Vicinity, in Somerset County, §§ 1-2(General Publisher, 1837)Prohibited shooting fowl from on board an open skiff, canoe, or open boat with any offensive weapon, gun, musket, fowling piece, or pistol in the region know as Hearn's Straits in Somerset County, within fifty yards of any blind for shooting fowl. Violators subject to ten dollar fine.Item Open Access 1841 Md. Laws 114, An Act To Incorporate The Mount Orange Cemetery, In The County of Baltimore, ch. 148, § 4(General Publisher, 1841)Any Person who shall willfully destroy, mutilate, deface, injure or remove any tomb, monument, grave stone, or other structure, placed in the cemetery . . . or shall shoot or discharge any gun, or other fire arms, within the said limits, shall be considered guilty of a misdemeanor . . .Item Open Access 1866 Md. Laws 602, ch. 375(General Publisher, 1866)Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, dirk-knife, Bowie-knife, slung-shot, billy, sand-club, metal knuckles, razor, any other dangerous or deadly weapon. Violators fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than six months.Item Open Access 1870 Md. Laws 892, ch. 473 §§ 1-2(General Publisher, 1870)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.Item Open Access 1872 Md. Laws 520, An Act To Incorporate A Company To Construct A Bridge Across The Severn River, At Annapolis, In Anne Arundel County, § 17(General Publisher, 1872)That for the safety of passengers and vehicles passing on said bridge, there shall be a penalty of not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars for any person or persons to shoot any gun, pistol, or fire-works of any kind, whatever on the said bridge . .Item Open Access 1872 Md. Laws 57, An Act to Add an Additional Section to Article Two of the Code of Public Local Laws, Entitled “Anne Arundel County,” Sub -title “Annapolis,” to Prevent the Carrying of Concealed Weapons in Said City,ch. 42 § 246(General Publisher, 1872)Prohibited the carrying of a concealed pistol, dirk-knife, Bowie knife, slingshot, billy, razor, brass, iron or other metal knuckles, or any other deadly weapon in Annapolis. Punishable by a fine of $3-10.Item Open Access 1874 Md. Acts 224, An Act To Protect Wild Fowl in Worcester County, ch. 164, §§ 1-2(General Publisher, 1874)§ 1... no person shall, during the hours intervening between twilight at evening and twilight of the following morning, shoot or kill, or shoot at, capture with nets, by fire-light, any wild fowl within the limits of Worcester County. § 2. ...no person shall, at any time, kill or shoot at any wild fowl within the limits of Worcester County, with any swivel or pivot gun, or any kind of gun which cannot be conveniently discharged from the shoulder at arms length and without a rest.Item Open Access 1882 Md. Laws 257, An Act to . . . Exempt All That Portion of the Waters of the Chesapeake Bay Lying Northward of a Certain Line Therein Described from the Operation and Effect of Sections One and Three . . ., ch. 180, § 8(General Publisher, 1882)the special police appointed by this act are authorized to arrest any person or persons who may be discovered in the act of hunting or shooting crippled ducks, or in purloining ducks that have been killed by other persons having a proper license to shoot, as well as other persons violating the provisions of this section, and upon conviction thereof before any justice of the peace of Cecil or Harford Counties, the license of such persons or persons shall be revoked, and such persons or persons, whether licensed or not, shall be fined not less than twenty dollars for each offense, and shall forfeit the boat and gun or gunsItem Open Access 1882 Md. Laws 656 ch. 424 §1(General Publisher, 1882)Prohibited the manufacture, sale, barter, or giving away toy pistol cartridgesItem Open Access 1882 Md. Laws 656 ch. 424 §2(General Publisher, 1882)Prohibited the sale of any firearm or other deadly weapon to minors under the age of twenty-one. Violators fined not less than fifty, but no more than two hundred dollars with costs. Failure to pay fine punished by imprisonment the until the fine is paid, or imprisonment of sixty days max, whichever shall occur first.Item Open Access 1886 Md. Laws 315, An Act to Prevent the Carrying of Guns, Pistols, Dirk-knives, Razors, Billies or Bludgeons by any Person in Calvert County, on the Days of Election in said County, Within One Mile of the Polls § 1(General Publisher, 1886)Prohibited the carrying of a gun, pistol, dirk, dirk-knife, razor, billy or bludgeon on an election day within 300 yards of the polls. Punishable by fine of $10-50.Item Open Access 1886 Md. Laws 315, ch 189, § 1(General Publisher, 1886)Prohibited the carrying of a gun, pistol, dirk, dirk-knife, razor, billy or bludgeon on an election day. Punishable by a fine of $10-50.