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Item Open Access 1927 R.I. Pub. Laws 260, ch. 1052, § 12.(General Publisher, 1927)No person shall change, alter, remove, or obliterate the name of the maker, model, manufacturer’s number, or other mark of identification on any firearm. Possession of any firearm upon which any such mark shall have been changed, altered, removed, or obliterated, shall be prima facie evidence that the possessor has changed, altered, removed or obliterated the same.Item Open Access 1927 R.I. Pub. Laws 256, ch. 1052, §§ 1, 3(General Publisher, 1927)Prohibited a person who has previously been convicted of a violent crime from owning, carrying, or possessing any firearm (including machine gun or pistol).Item Open Access 1927 R.I. Pub. Laws 256, ch. 1052, §§ 1, 4, 5, 6(General Publisher, 1927)Prohibited carrying a concealed pistol and Prohibited manufacturing, selling, purchasing, or possessing a machine gun.Item Open Access 1927 R.I. Pub. Laws 256, ch. 1052, §§ 1-2.(General Publisher, 1927)When used in this act the following words and phrases shall be construed as follows: “pistol” shall include any Pistol or revolver, and any shot gun, rifle or similar weapon with overall less than twenty-six inches, but shall not include any pistol without a magazine or any pistol or revolver designed for the use of blank cartridges only. “Machine gun” shall include any weapon which shoots automatically and any weapon which shoots more than twelve shots semi-automatically without reloading. “Firearm shall include any machine gun or pistol. . . “Crime of violence” shall mean and include nay of the following crimes or any attempt to commit any of the same, viz. murder, manslaughter, rape, mayhem, assault or battery involving grave bodily injury, robbery, burglary, and breaking and entering. “sell” shall include let or hire, give, lend and transfer, and the word “purchase” shall include hire, accept and borrow, and the expression “purchasing” shall be construed accordingly. § 2. If any person shall commit or attempt to commit a crime of violence when armed with or having available any firearm, he may in addition to the punishment provided for such crime of violence be punished as provided in this act. In the trial of a person for committing or attempting to commit a crime of violence the fact that he was armed with or had available a pistol without license to carry the same, or was armed with or had available a machine gun, shall be prima facie evidence of his intention to commit said crime of violence.Item Open Access 1914 R.I. Pub. Laws 245, ch. 1032, § 10(General Publisher, 1914)Every person who shall at any time of the year take, kill or destroy any quail or partridge by means of any trap, snare, net or spring, or who shall construct, erect, set, repair, maintain or tend any trap, snare, net or spring, for the purpose of taking, killing or destroying any quail or partridge, who shall shoot any water fowl by means or by use of any battery, swivel, punt, or pivot gun, or who shall take, kill, or pursue with intent to kill any migratory bird or insectivorous bird between sunset and sunrise, shall be fined for each offense twenty dollars.Item Open Access Acts and Resolves Passed by the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island, at 64-66, ch. 394, §§ 89-90 (January Session, 1909).(General Publisher, 1909)No body of men, other than the organized militia, the organized naval forces, the independent chartered military organizations, the military and naval forces of the United States, associations wholly composed of soldiers, sailors, or marines, honorably discharged from the service of the United States, veterans of the national guard or naval militia, the organizations of the order of the sons of veterans, and organizations now authorized to do so by the express permission of the commander-in-chief or otherwise by law, shall associate themselves together as a military company or organization, or parade in public with firearms in any city or town of this state.Item Open Access 1907 R.I. Pub. Laws 66, An Act for the Protection of Deer(General Publisher, 1907)It shall be unlawful to pursue or shoot deer in this state except in accordance with the provisions of this act.Item Open Access 1902 R.I. Pub. Laws 67, An Act in addition to chapter 40 of the General Laws, Entitled “Of the Town Council”: § 1.(General Publisher, 1902)Town councils and city councils may from time to time make and ordain all ordinances and regulations for their respective towns, not repugnant to law, which they may deem necessary for the safety of their inhabitants from the manufacture, storage, keeping, having in possession, transportation, sale, or use of gunpowder, gun-cotton, dynamite, nitro-glycerine, nitro-gelatine, lyddite, chlorate of potash, picric acid, sodium calcium carbide, acetylene gas, gasoline gas, and any and all other explosives and explosive chemicals; and may prohibit the manufacture, storage, keeping having in possession, transportation , sale , or use by any and all persons or persons of any or all said substances and gases in their respective towns, unless a license for the same shall be first obtained from the town council or board of aldermen, which license shall be for the term of one years from the date thereof unless sooner revoked by order of said town council or board of aldermen.Item Open Access 1896 R.I. Pub. Laws 371, tit. 14, ch. 110, § 1(General Publisher, 1896)Every person who shall discharge any rifle, gun, musket, blunderbuss, fowling-piece, pistol, air-gun, spring-gun or other contrivance arranged to discharge shot, bullets, arrows, darts, or other missiles, in or across any road, street, square or lane shall be fined not less than three dollars nor more than twenty dollars.Item Open Access 1896 R.I. Pub. Laws 372, tit. 14, ch. 110, § 4(General Publisher, 1896)Every person who shall sell, expose for sale, or have in his possession with intent to sell, use or explode, or shall use or explode any fire cracker containing any explosive other than gunpowder, shall be fined not more than twenty dollars.