Collection of Historical Firearm Regulations
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This collection serves as a comprehensive repository for academic research, historical documentation, and case studies related to firearm regulations. It focuses on the evolution of firearm laws, their interpretations across different jurisdictions, and their historical impact on society. This collection offers valuable resources for scholars, legal experts, and researchers interested in the legal frameworks surrounding firearm regulation.
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Item Open Access F. L. Attenborough, ed. and trans., The Laws of the Earliest English Kings (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1922), 6-7. Transcription and translation of the Textus Roffensis,1 the Laws of Æthelberht, no. 18(602)Prohibited supplying another with weapons while a quarrel is taking place. If no injury takes place, the lender shall pay a fine of six shillings.Item Open Access The Laws of the Earliest English Kings, Laws of King Alfred the Great: cap. 36(890)Prohibited going armed with a spear.Item Open Access Laws of King Alfred the Great, A.D. Cir. 890, Cap. 38(890)Prohibited fighting, and drawing weapons at meetings in the presence of an alderman of the King. Violators are fined one hundred and twenty shillings. Violators in the presence of an official subordinate of the alderman are fined thirty shillings.Item Open Access The Laws of the Earliest English Kings(890)Prohibited fighting in the King's Hall or drawing weapons. Violators may be put to death by the King. Violators who escape may be punished and fined according "to the nature of th eourage he has perpetrated.Item Open Access Law of King Canute A. D. 1016-1035. Secular Dooms, Cap. 80(General Publisher, 1035)Allowed individuals to hunt on their own lands. Anyone caught hunting on the King's lands would suffer "the full penalty."Item Open Access The Dialogue Concerning the Exchequer, circa 1080, Book 1, § 12(1080)Prohibited hunting in the forests of the king.Item Open Access 27 Henry II, art. 3 (1181).(1181)Required all freemen to be armed with a doublet of mail, a head-piece of iron, and a lance. Let all freemen holding chattels to the value of 16 marks to have a hauberk, helmet, a shield, and lance.Item Open Access 13 Edward I, ch. 6 (1285), in 1 STATUTES OF THE REALM 97–98 (1800).(General Publisher, 1285)Required all males aged fifteen to sixty in certain income groups to have at least particular quantities of arms and armor.Item Open Access Calendar of the Close Rolls, Edward I, 1296–1302, p. 318 (Sept. 15, 1299) (1906)(General Publisher, 1299)Order to all sheriffs of England. Prohibited anyone from "going armed" within the realm without the king's special license.Item Open Access 7 Edw. 2, 170 (1313)(General Publisher, 1313)Prohibited coming into any parliament with "force" and armour.Item Open Access 2 Edw. 3, c. 3 (1328) (Eng.)(General Publisher, 1328)Statute of Northhampton; forbade any person to come before the King's justices or ministers "with force and arms," "nor bring no force in affray of the peace, nor to go nor ride armed" in fairs, markets, before the justices and ministers, "nor in no part elsewhere…."Item Open Access Statutory Crime of Affray, 25 Edw. 3, stat. 5, c. 2, § 13 (1350)(General Publisher, 1350)Prohibited riding armed against another with the intent to flay him, rob him, or take him, or retain him until fine or ransom is paid. Violators guilty of felony or trespass, but not treason.Item Open Access 7 Rich. 2, ch. 13 (1383)(General Publisher, 1383)Prohibited possession of launcegays. Punished by forfeiture of the weapon.Item Open Access 12 Richard II ch. 6 (1388)(General Publisher, 1388)Prohibited possession of a sword or dagger by servants unless accompanied by their master.Item Open Access 20 Rich. 2, ch. 1 (1396)(General Publisher, 1396)Prohibited possession of launcegays. Punished by forfeiture of the weapon.Item Open Access Danby Pickering, ed., The Statutes at Large, from the Fifteenth Year of King Edward III to the Thirteenth Year of King Hen. IV, inclusive, vol. 2 (Cambridge, UK: Joseph Bentham, 1762), 414-15. Cap. XII—Certain Restraints Laid on Wholly Born Welshmen. Passed 1400 (anno secundo Henrici IV)(General Publisher, 1400)Prohibited Welshmen from bearing any armour with cities, boroughs, or merchant towns. Violators forfeit said armour and imprisoned until a fine is paid on their behalf.Item Open Access 4 Hen 4, c. 29 (1403) (Eng.)(General Publisher, 1403)Prohibited the use of armor or arms in sensitive places by people not allowed by the King.Item Open Access 26 Hen. 8, c. 6, § 4 (1534)(General Publisher, 1534)Prohibited Welsh residents or lords from bearing any bill, longbow, crossbow, handgun, sword, staff, dagger, halberd, morespike, spear, or any other manner of weapon into sessions, court, town, church, fair, market, other congregation, or on the highways in affray of the King's peace or the King's liege people. Violators punished with imprisonment and fine.Item Open Access 33 Hen. 8, ch. 6 §§ 1, 2, 18(General Publisher, 1541)Prohibited possession of any crossbow, handgun, hagbutt, or demy hake. Exempted subjects living within 12 miles of the Scottish border. Punishable by forfeiture or payment of 10 pounds.Item Open Access The First Charter of Virginia (1606)(General Publisher, 1606)Granted subjects all liberties, franchises, and immunities of free denizens. Also granted subjects the right to take, load, carry, transport armour, weapons, ordinances, muniiton, poweder, shott, victuals,and "all other things" necessary for the use and defense of the people.