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Item Open Access An Act To Control The Possession, Sale, Transfer And Use Of Pistols And Other Dangerous Weapons In The District Of Columbia, To Provide Penalties, To Prescribe Rules Of Evidence, And For Other Purposes, 47 Stat. 650 (1932), ch. 465, §§ 1, 8(General Publisher, 1932)Prohibited being armed with or having readily available any pistol or other firearm while committing a violent crime. In addition to being punished for the crime, will also be punished with imprisonment (various terms depending on the number of previous convictions). Additionally, Prohibited people convicted of violent crimes from owning or possessing a pistol. Prohibited carrying a concealed deadly or dangerous weapon. Regulates the sale and transfer of pistols.Item Open Access 1899 U.S. Stat. 1270, ch. 429, sec. 117(General Publisher, 1899)Prohibited concealed carry of any revolver, pistol, other firearm, or knife, dirk, dagger, slung shot, metal knuckles, or any instrument which could inflict injury.Item Open Access Washington D.C. 27 Stat. 116 (1892)(General Publisher, 1892)That it shall not be lawful for any person or persons within the District of Columbia, to have concealed about their person any deadly or dangerous weapons, such as daggers, air-guns, pistols, bowie-knives, dirk knives or dirks, blackjacks, razors, razor blades, sword canes, slung shot, brass or other metal knuckles.That it shall not be lawful for any person or persons within the District of Columbia to carry openly any such weapons as hereinbefore described with intent to unlawfully use the same, and any person or persons violating either of these sections shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. That any person or persons who shall, within the District of Columbia, sell, barter, hire, lend or give to any minor under the age of twenty-one years any such weapon as hereinbefore described shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanorItem Open Access The Compiled Statutes in Force in the District of Columbia including the Acts of the Second Session of the Congress 1887-'89, William Stone Albert & Benjamin G. comps., 178 1894 (Act of July 20, 1871)(General Publisher, 1871)It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to carry or have concealed about their persons any deadly or dangerous. weapons, such as daggers, air-guns, pistols, bowie-knives, dirk- knives, or dirks, razors, razor-blades, sword-canes, slung-shots, or brass or other metal knuckles, within the District of Columbia;Item Open Access An Act to Prevent the Carrying of Concealed Weapons, Aug. 10, 1871, reprinted in Laws of the District of Columbia: 1871-1872, Part II, 33 (1872) (Dist. of Col., An Act to Prevent the Carrying of Concealed Weapons, 1871, ch. XXV)(General Publisher, 1871)Prohibited the carrying or having concealed “any deadly or dangerous weapons, such as daggers, air-guns, pistols, Bowie knives, dirk-knives, or dirks, razors, razor-blades, sword-canes, slungshots, or brass or other metal knuckles.” Punishable by forfeiture of the weapon and a fine of $20-50.Item Open Access An Ordinance Prohibiting the Carrying of Firearms, Ordinances of the Corporation of Georgetown (1859).(General Publisher, 1859)it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to have about their persons any concealed deadly or dangerous weapons, such as daggers, pistols, bowie-knives, dirk-knives, colt, slung-shots, or brass or other metallic knuckles, within the limits of this CorporationItem Open Access 1 William B. Webb The Laws of the Corporation of the of Washington Digested and Arranged under Appropriate in Accordance with a Joint Resolution of the City 418 (1868), Act of Nov. 18, 1858.(General Publisher, 1858)It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to carry or have concealed about their persons any deadly or dangerous weapons, such as dagger, pistol, bowie knife, dirk knife, or dirk, colt, slungshot, or brass or other metal knuckles within the City of WashingtonItem Open Access “Ordinances of the Corporation of Georgetown, 1801, October 24th, Sect. 2”, The Black Code of the District of Columbia in Force September 1st, 1848 50 (New York, 1848)(General Publisher, 1801)Prohibited “any servant or slave” from shooting any gun or other firearms.Item Open Access An Ordinance to prevent shooting with guns, or other fire-arms. Georgetown, D.C. (1801).(General Publisher, 1801)[I]t shall not be lawful for any person to shoot with any gun, or other fire-arm, within any of the inhabited parts of Georgetown or its additions; and if any person shall, contrary to this ordinance, shoot any gun or other fire-arm, such person shall forfeit and pay five dollars for every offence, to be recovered as other fines are now by law recoverable, the one half to the use of the Corporation, and the other half to the use of the informer.