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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    1639 Va. Acts 228, Act 21
    (General Publisher, 1639)
    Not to shoot or hunt on other men’s land that is seated and bounds marked under penalty of 40s. but may pursue deer and shoot on their own land.
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    1639 Va. Acts 224, Act 17
    (General Publisher, 1639)
    An act in 1637, which makes it a felony to barter with the Indians repealed, and enacted that for trading with them for arms and ammunition shall be felony, and for other commodities imprisonment at discretion of the Governor and Council.
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    1639 Va. Acts 226, Act 10
    (General Publisher, 1639)
    All persons except negroes to be provided with arms and ammunition or be fined at pleasure of the Governor and Council.
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    1633 Va. Acts 219, Acts Made by the Grand Assembly, Holden At James City, August 21st, 1633, An Act That No Arms or Ammunition Be Sold To The Indians, Act X
    (General Publisher, 1633)
    It is ordered and appointed, That if any person or persons shall sell or barter any guns, powder, shot, or any arms or ammunition unto any Indian or Indians within this territory, the said person or persons shall forfeit to public uses all the goods and chattels that he or they then have to their own use, and shall also suffer imprisonment during life, the one half of which forfeiture shall be to him or them that shall inform and the other half to public uses.
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    1632 Va. Acts 198, Act 45
    (General Publisher, 1632)
    All men that are fitting to bear arms, shall bring their pieces to the church upon pain for every offence, if the default be in the master, to pay 2lb of tobacco, to be disposed by the church-wardens, who shall levy it by distress, and the servants shall be punished [ ] commander.
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    1631 Va. Acts 173, Act 51
    (General Publisher, 1631)
    All men that are fitting to bear arms, shall bring their pieces to the church upon pain of every offence, of the mayster allow not thereof to pay 2 lb. of tobacco, to be disposed by the church-wardens, who shall levy it by distress, and the servants be punished.
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    1631 Va. Acts 174, Act 56
    (General Publisher, 1631)
    It is ordered and appointed, that the commanders of all the several plantations, do upon holy days exercise the men under his command, and that the commanders yearly do likewise upon the first day of December, take a muster of their men, together with the women and children, and their ages, countries, and towns, where they were born, with the ships they came in, and year of the Lord, as also of arms and munition . . .
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    1631 Va. Acts 173, Acts 46-48.
    (General Publisher, 1631)
    NOE man shall goe or send abroade without a sufficient party well armed.
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    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.
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