Virginia
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Item Open Access 1875 Va. Acts 109, ch. 100, § 12(General Publisher, 1875)If any person shall, at any time, either in the night or day-time, shoot at wild fowl in any county bordering . . . with any gun which cannot be conveniently discharged from the shoulder at arm’s length without a rest, or have such gun in his possession on a boat, a justice of any such county shall require such gun to be surrendered, and shall order it to be destroyed, and shall fine the offender ten dollars.Item Open Access The Ordinances of the City of Richmond, Ch. 62, Concerning Powder, §1-7.(General Publisher, 1869)Not more than fifty pounds of powder shall be transported in the city at one time, except by a military company, or in a vehicle constructed as the Engineer of the city shall prescribe.Item Open Access The Charter and General Ordinances of the Town of Lexington, Virginia, at 108, ch. 70, § 1 (1892)(General Publisher, 1873)If any person, in any street or public alley, shall fire or discharge any gun, pistol or other fire-arms, or play bandy, or throw snow balls, stones or other missiles, or discharge arrows from a bow or cross-bow, he shall be fined not less than one dollar nor more than five dollars.Item Open Access The Charter and General Ordinances of the Town of Lexington, Virginia Page 87, Image 107 (1892)(General Publisher, 1869)If any person sell, barter, give or furnish, or cause to be sold, bartered, given or furnished to any minor under sixteen years of age, cigarettes, or pistols, or dirks, or bowie knives, having good cause to believe him or her to be a minor under sixteen years of age, shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars."Item Open Access City of Staunton, Va. Code Ch. II, § 135 p. 115 (1910)(General Publisher, 1910)Prohibited carrying of firearms, throwing stones, or other missiles within the park.Item Open Access THE CODE OF THE CITY OF LYNCHBURG, VA 116 (Thomas D. Davis ed., 1887)(General Publisher, 1887)Prohibited discharge of any gun, pistol, other fire-arm, fireworks, or popcrackers without written consent of the mayor, or fire any cannon within one hundred yards of any dwelling-house. Violators fined not less than one dollar but no more than ten dollars.Item Open Access 1916 Va. Acts 568, ch. 348, §1.(General Publisher, 1916)Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to hunt, pursue, kill, or destroy in any way, any wild game or to enter with dog or gun or both with intent to hunt, kill, pursue, destroy any wild game upon any of those tracts of land in Shenandoah county in what is known as the Massanutten purchase area to which the government of the United States of America has acquired the legal title under the Week’s law for the acquisition of lands upon the head waters . . .Item Open Access The Code of the City of Staunton, Virginia 115 (1910).(General Publisher, 1910)All persons are forbidden to enter or leave the park except by the gateways; to climb or walk upon any of the walls or fence, to turn cattle, horses, goats or swine into the park; to carry firearms, or to throw stones or other missiles within it; to cut, break, or in any way injure or deface the trees, benches, shrubs, plants, turf, or any of the buildings, fences, bridges, or other constructions upon the park; or to converse with, or in any way hinder those engaged in its construction.Item Open Access 1908 Va. Laws 381, ch. 259, § 1(General Publisher, 1908)If any person carry about his person, hid from common observation, any pistol, dirk, bowie knife, razor, slungshot, or any weapon of like kind he shall be fined not less than twenty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or be committed to jail not more than thirty days, or both, in the discretion of the court, or jury, trying the caseItem Open Access 1902-1904 Va. Acts 261, ch. 186, §§ 1-2(General Publisher, 1903)1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, or association, to sell, barter, exchange, furnish, or dispose of by purchase, gift, or in any other manner, any toy gun, pistol, rifle, or other toy firearm, if the same shall, by means of powder or other explosive discharge blank or ball charges, to any person under the age of twelve years.