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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1 Dictionary of the English Language 106 (4th ed.) (reprinted 1978)
(General Publisher, 1773)
Used by the Court to define arms as weapons of offence, or armour of defence.
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1877 Terr. of Dakota Rev. Codes 771, Penal Code, ch. 23, § 294
(General Publisher, 1877)
Duel Defined. A duel is any combat, with deadly weapons, fought between two persons by previous agreement or upon a previous quarrel. § 295. Punishment for Fighting. Every person guilty of fighting any duel, although no death or wound ensues, is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding ten years.
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1880 Dakota Terr. Rev. Codes 771, Penal Code, ch. 23, §§ 295-295
(General Publisher, 1877)
A duel is any combat, with deadly weapons, fought between two persons by previous agreement or upon a previous quarrel. § 295. Punishment for Fighting. Every person guilty of fighting any duel, although no death or wound ensues, is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding ten years.
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1887 N.M. Laws 57, ch. 30, § 8
(General Publisher, 1887)
Defined “deadly weapons” as including pistols, whether the same be a revolved, repeater, derringer, or any kind or class of pistol or gun; any and all kinds of daggers, Bowie knives, poniards, butcher knives, dirk knives, and all such weapons with which dangerous cuts can be given, or with which dangerous thrusts can be inflicted, including sword canes, and any kind of sharp pointed canes; as also slungshots, bludgeons or any other deadly weapons.
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1918 Mont. Laws 6-7,9, ch. 2, §§ 1, 3, 8.
(General Publisher, 1918)
Within thirty days from the passage and approval of this Act, every person within the State of Montana, who owns or has in his possession any fire arms or weapons shall make a full, true, and complete verified report upon the form hereinafter provided to the sheriff of the County in which such person lives, of all fire arms and weapons which are owned or possessed by him or her or are in his or her control, and on sale or transfer into the possession of any other person such person shall immediately forward to the sheriff of the County in which such person lives the name and address of that purchaser and person into whose possession or control such fire arm or weapon was delivered. § 3. Any person signing a fictitious name or address or giving any false information in such report shall be guilty of misdemeanor, and any person failing to file such report as in this Act provided, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. § 8. For the purpose of this Act a fire arm or weapon shall be deemed to be any revolver, pistol, shot gun, rifle, dirk, dagger, or sword.
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1923 N.H. Laws 138 § 1
(General Publisher, 1923)
Pistol or revolver, as used in this act shall be construed as meaning any firearm with a barrel less than twelve inches in length.
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1925 Ind. Acts 495 § 1
(General Publisher, 1925)
Defined a pistol or revolver as any firearm with a. barrel less than twelve inches in length.
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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.
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1933 Haw. Sess. Laws 36, An Act Regulating the Sale, Transfer, and Possession of Firearms and Ammunition, § 2
(General Publisher, 1933)
Defined firearms as a weapon whose operating force is an explosive. The definition includes pistols, revolvers, rifles, shotguns, machine guns, automatic rifles, noxious gas projectors, mortars, bombs, cannon, and sub-machine guns. Defined crime of violence as murder, manslaughter, rape, kidnapping, robbery, burglary, and crimes labeled in Revised Laws § 4130-4131. Pistol and revolver are defined as a firearm with a barrel less than twelve inches in length and capable of discharging laoded ammunition or noxious gas.
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Act of March 23, 1935, ch. 172, §§ 1-4, Wash. Sess. Laws 599, 599.
(General Publisher, 1935)
'Short Firearm' as used in this act means any firearm with a barrel less than twelve (12) inches in length.If any person shall commit or attempt to commit a crime of violence when armed with a pistol, he may in addition to the punishment provided for the crime, be punished also as provided by this act.No person who has been convicted in this state or elsewhere of a crime of violence, shall own a pistol or have one in his possession or under his control."
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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."
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William C. Heacock, ed., Compiled Ordinances: Town of Albuquerque (Albuquerque, NM: John Knox, 1887), 81-2. Chapter 21—Deadly Weapon, § 2.
(General Publisher, 1887)
Deadly weapons, within the meaning of this preceding section, shall be construed to mean any and all kinds and classes of guns, pistols and revolvers, slung-shots, loaded or sword canes or sand-bags, and all kinds and classes of weapons and instruments, by whatever name they may be called, by which a dangerous wound can be inflicted.