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 1 ARCHIVES OF MARYLAND 77 (enacted 1639) (William Hand Browne ed., 1885)(General Publisher, 1639)Required "every housekeeeper" to keep and bear one gun of "bastard muskett boare" design, bandeloors or shott bag, one pound of powder, four pounds of pistol or musket shot, sufficient quantity of matchlocks & flints, a sword, and belt.Item Open Access 1 Blackstone ch. 1 (1769)(General Publisher, 1769)Recognized the “fifth and last auxiliary right,” which provided that Protestant subjects had the right to “arms for their defence” “such as are allowed by law.”Item Open Access 1 Del. Laws 104 (1797), ch. 43, § 6(General Publisher, 1797)Prohibited “any Negro or Mulatto slave” from carrying guns, swords, pistols, fowling pieces, clubs, or other arms and weapons without the master’s special license.Item Open Access 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.Item Open Access 1 DIGEST OF THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA, FROM THE YEAR ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY-TWO, TO THE ELEVENTH DAY OF MARCH, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-ONE INCLUSIVE 873 (James F. McClellan, comp.) (1881) (Fla. ch. 174, § 24, item 14).(General Publisher, 1881)Replaced the two hundred dollar annual tax for vendors and ten dollar tax for open carry with a fifty dollar occupational license for vendors of pistols, Bowie-knives, or dirk-knives.Item Open Access 1 Fed. Reg. 668, 674, National Park Service Rules and Regulations (1936) § 8(General Publisher, 1936)Prohibited firearms, explosives, traps, seines, and nets within the parks and monuments under federal control.Item Open Access 1 General Statutes of the State of Kansas 378 (1868)(General Publisher, 1868)Prohibited possession of a "pistol, bowie-knife, dirk or other deadly weapon" by “[a]ny person who is not engaged in any legitimate business, any person under the influence of intoxicating drink, and any person who has ever borne arms against the government of the United States.”Item Open Access 1 Mass. Bay Recs. At 190 (travelers, 1631)(General Publisher, 1631)Ordered that no person shall travel to Plymouth without some arms.Item Open Access 1 PUBLIC RECORDS OF THE COLONY OF CONNECTICUT 542–43 (J. Hammond Trumbull ed., 1850) (enacted 1650).(General Publisher, 1650)Required all persons above sixteen years old to bear arms. All males will have a musket or other gun in continual readiness and fit for service.Item Open Access 1 RECORDS OF THE COLONY OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS, IN NEW ENGLAND 94 (John Russell Bartlett ed., 1856) (enacted 1639)(General Publisher, 1639)Ordered that "no man" shall go two miles from town unarmed. Also ordered that none shall come to any public meeting without his weapon. Penalty of five shillings per violation.Item Open Access 1 RECORDS OF THE GOVERNOR AND COMPANY OF THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY IN NEW ENGLAND 190 (Nathaniel B. Shurtleff ed., 1853) (enacted 1637)(General Publisher, 1636)No person shall travel above one mile from his home, except where other homes are near each other, without some arms. Violators fined "12d" for each violation.Item Open Access 1 The Compiled Laws of Utah: The Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States and Statutes of the United States Locally Applicable and Important, at 797, Toy Pistols. § 2266 (1888)(General Publisher, 1884)Any one selling or giving a toy pistol to any person in this Territory, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.Item Open Access 1 The General Statutes of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Enacted December 28, 1859, to Take Effect June 1, 1860 (2d ed., William A Richardson & George P. Sanger, eds.) 255 (1873)(General Publisher, 1859)Appointed six individuals in each county for proving of musket barrels and pistols. Proven arms are stamped by the appointed officials.Item Open Access 1 THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF THE COLONY OF CONNECTICUT 95–96 (J. Hammond Trumbull ed. 1850) (enacted 1643(General Publisher, 1643)Required each family to bring arms to church every Sabbath and lecture day.Item Open Access 1 W.W. Hening, Laws of Va. from First Sess. of Legis. in 1619, Act LVI at 174-5 (1823)(General Publisher, 1631)Required an annual muster of the men, women, and children of the plantations by the plantation commanders. Information collected: age, country and towns of birth, the ship they travelled upon. Also “of armes and munition, corne, cattle, hoggs, goates, barques, boates, gardens, and orchards.”Item 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 1 William Blackstone,Commentaries 139, ch. 1 p. 104(1765)(General Publisher, 1765)Discussed "the fifth and last auxiliary right", that Englishmen shall have arms for their defence. "Suitable to their condition and degree, and such as are allowed by law.Item Open Access 11 Stat. at Large of Pa. 209, ch. 1059, §§ 1-2 (1782)(General Publisher, 1783)all gun-powder brought into the port of Philadelphia should be deposited in a certain powder house therein described, under the penalty of ten pounds for every offense: And Whereas another powder house or magazine hath been erected in the said city in the public square on the south side of Vine street, between the Sixth and Seventh streets from Delaware at the public expenseItem 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 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.