Oregon
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This collection serves as a dedicated repository for academic research, historical documentation, and case studies related to Oregon. It focuses on the historical evolution, cultural developments, and legal frameworks within the state of Oregon. This collection offers valuable resources for scholars, researchers, and individuals interested in the rich heritage and historical significance of Oregon.
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Item Open Access Ordinance no. 26, § 6, DALLES CITY, CHARTER & GENERAL ORDINANCES (Himes the Printer 1882).(General Publisher, 1881)Shooting galleries shall pay a quarterly license of five dollars. Every place or building where guns or pistols are kept for shooting at targets, whether for hire or not, shall be deemed a shooting gallery under this ordinance.Item Open Access The Charter of Oregon City, Oregon, Together with the Ordinances and Rules of Order, at 259, Ordinance 209, § 2 (1898)(General Publisher, 1898)Prohibited the carrying of any slingshot, billy, dirk, pistol, or “any concealed deadly weapon,” and the discharge of any firearm, air gun, sparrow gun, flipper, or bean shooter, unless in self-defense.Item Open Access Ordinance no. 1341, § 21, ASTORIA, CHARTER AND GENERAL ORDINANCES (J. S. Dellinger 1896).(General Publisher, 1891)Any person or persons who shall fire off or discharge any ordnance, gun, pistol, rifle or other fire-arm within the City Limits of Astoria, or any fire-works or fire-crackers of any kind or description, in that portion of the City west of Salmon street, north of Wall street or Court street and east of Madison street, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,Item Open Access ASTORIA, CHARTER AND GENERAL ORDINANCES, ch. 5, § 38, nos. 21 & 23 (Astorian Publishing Company 1891).(General Publisher, 1891)To regulate the storage and sale of gunpowder; dynamite, nitro glycerine, oil, or combustible material and to prevent by all possible means danger or risk of injury or damage thereby by fire from carelessness, negligence or otherwise. To regulate the storage of tar, pitch, rosin, lacquer, and the use of candles, lamps and other lights in stores, shops, stables, and other places, to suppress, remove and secure any fire place, stove, chimney, oven, or boiler, or other apparatus which may be dangerous in causing fire. Also provided for the regulation of concealed carry weaponsItem Open Access Act of February 14, 1887, § 3, ALBANY, CHARTER AND GENERAL ORDINANCES (C. W. Watts 1887).(General Publisher, 1887)regulated the storage of gunpowder, discharge of firearms, and carrying of concealed firearmsItem Open Access ALBANY, CHARTER AND GENERAL ORDINANCES, no. 152, § 39 (C. W. Watts 1887).(General Publisher, 1887)Each of the following shall be conclusively deemed and taken to be a deadly or dangerous weapon within the meaning of the provisions of sections 3 and 7 of this ordinance, to-wit: Any pistol, whether loaded or not, any dirk, dagger, bowie-knife, slung-shot, brass or iron knuckles; and any and all other weapons which the evidence may show to be dangerous to life or limb shall be considered and deemed to be deadly or dangerous weapons within the meaning of said section."Item Open Access ALBANY, CHARTER AND GENERAL ORDINANCES, no. 152, § 8 (C. W. Watts 1887).(General Publisher, 1887)That any person or persons who shall fire off or discharge any ordinary gun, pistol, rifle or other firearm within the corporate limits of the City of Albany, or shall ignite, fire or explode, or cause to be fired or exploded, any firecrackers, bombs, torpedoes or other fire or detonating works of any description whatever in that portion of the city bounded by Third Street on the south, Jackson Street on the east, Vine Street on the west and the Willamette River on the north, shall, upon conviction thereof before the Recorder's court, be fined not less than five or more than fifty dollars, or imprisoned in the city jail not less than two…**Item Open Access ALBANY, CHARTER AND GENERAL ORDINANCES, no. 152, § 7 (C. W. Watts 1887).(General Publisher, 1887)That any person or persons who shall carry any deadly or dangerous weapons of any kind whatever in a concealed manner within the corporate limits of the city of Albany, shall upon, conviction thereof before the Recorder's court be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the city jail not less than five days nor more than fifty days, or both at the discretion of the court; Provided; That peace officers shall be exempt from the provisions of this section.Item Open Access 1895 Or. Laws 95, An Act for the Protection of Game, Fish and Wild Fowl of the State of Oregon, and to Provide for the Appointment of a Fish and Game Warden, § 16.(General Publisher, 1895)Every person who shall use any batteries or swivel or pivot-gun, or any other gun than one to be held in the hands and fired from the shoulder, either from the shore or on a boat, raft or other device, on the Columbia river, or on any other lake or river in the state of Oregon, at any time, for the purpose of shooting wild ducks, geese, swan or other water fowl, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as hereinafter provided.Item Open Access 1893 Or. Laws 29-30, An Act to Punish the Pointing of Firearms at a Human Being, § 1.(General Publisher, 1893)It shall be unlawful for any person over the age of sixteen years, with or without malice, purposely to point or aim any pistol, gun, revolver, or other firearm, within range of said firearm, either loaded or empty, at or toward any other person, except in self-defense. And any person so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than ten dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not less than ten days nor more than six months, or both.