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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    1657, Va. Acts 437, Act 13
    (General Publisher, 1657)
    If any planter or person shall hunt or shoot upon or within the limits or precincts of his neighbor or others’ dividends without leave first obtained for his so doing and having been warned by the owner of the land, to forbear hunting and shooting as aforesaid: He or they so offending shall forfeit for every such offense four hundred pounds of tobacco . . .
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    1657, Va. Acts 434, Act 3
    (General Publisher, 1657)
    That the Lord’s day be kept holy, and that no journeys be made except in case of emergent necessity on that day, that no goods be laden in boats nor shooting in guns . . . the party delinquent to pay one hundred pounds of tobacco or laid in the stocks . . .
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    1655 Va. Acts 401, Act 12
    (General Publisher, 1655)
    What persons or persons soever shall, after publication hereof, shoot any guns at drinking (marriages and funerals only excepted) that such person or persons so offending shall forfeit 100 lb. of tobacco to be levied by distress in case of refusal and to be disposed of by the militia in ammunition towards a magazine for the county where the offence shall be committed.
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    1651 Va. Acts 365, Articles At The Surrender Of The Country, art. 13
    (General Publisher, 1651)
    That all ammunition, powder and arms, other than for private use shall be delivered up, security being given to make satisfaction for it.
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    2 W.W. Hening, Laws of Va. from First Sess. of Legis. in 1619, at 403 (1823)
    (General Publisher, 1676)
    Ordered that all persons have liberty to sell arms and ammunition to any of his majesties loyal subjects. Includes “Indians of the Easterne shore” have equal liberty to trade with “our friends and neighbouring Indians.”
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    VIRGINIA LAWS 1661-1676, at 37 (1676) (enacted 1665)
    (General Publisher, 1665)
    Enforced militias to arm themselves in order to protect churches, courts, and other public meetings from "Indians."
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    William Waller Hening, 1 The Statutes at Large; Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia 441 (1808)
    (General Publisher, 1657)
    Prohibited the giving or selling piece, powder, or shot to “any Indian,” subject to imprisonment and seizure of property.
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    1636-1748 R.I. Pub. Laws 31, At A General Assembly Held For Rhode Island Colony At Newport 6th of May, 1679
    (General Publisher, 1679)
    That if any person or persons shall presume to sport game or play at any manner of game or games or shooting out any gun or shall set tipling & drinking in any tavern alhouse ordinary or vitling house on the first day of the week more than neccesity requireth and upon examination of the fact it shall be judged by any Justice of the Peace and the Person or Persons so offending as aforesaid. Upon conviction before one Justice of Peace Shall by the said Justice of the Peace be sentenced for every the aforesaid offences to set in the stocks three hours or pay five shillings in money for the use of the poor of the town or place where the offence was committed.
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    Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in New England 561 (1857)
    (General Publisher, 1677)
    Required seizure of guns and ammunition from “any Indian.”
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    Charter to William Penn, And Laws of the Province of Pennsylvania, Passed Between the Years 1682 and 1700, at 32 (1879)
    (General Publisher, 1676)
    Prohibited the giving, selling, or bartering guns, ammunition, armour, or boats and the repair of guns to “any Indian,” punishable by fine.

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