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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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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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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1665 N.Y. Laws 205, Ordinance Of The Director General And Council Of New Netherland To Prevent Firing Of Guns, Planting May Poles And Other Irregularities Within This Province
(General Publisher, 1665)
the director General and Council expressly forbid from this time forth all firing of Guns . . .on a penalty of 12 guilders for the first offense; double for the second offense, and for the third an arbitrary correction . . .
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The Colonial Laws of New York from the Year 1664 to the Revolution . . ., at 687 (1894)
(General Publisher, 1664)
Prohibited a slave from possessing or using a gun, pistol, sword, club, or other kind of weapon unless in the presence and at the direction of their Master or Mistress.
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2 The Colonial Laws of New York from the Year 1664 to the Revolution 687 (James B. Lyon ed., 1894)
(General Publisher, 1664)
Prohibited “any slave” from possessing or using any gun, pistol, sword, club, or any other kind of dangerous weapon not in the presence of their master.
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THE COMPACT WITH THE CHARTER AND LAWS OF THE COLONY OF NEW PLYMOUTH 102 (William Brigham ed., 1836) (enacted 1675) (Year-Round)
(General Publisher, 1675)
Required everyone to bring arms to Sunday church services, furnishing six charges of powder and shot. The penalty is two shillings for violations.
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Records Of The Colony Of New Plymouth In New England. Boston Page 230, Image 241 (1861)
(General Publisher, 1671)
Laws of Plymouth Colony (1671). Whereas several persons have been greatly endangered by setting of guns, it is enacted by the Court and the authority thereof that none shall sett any guns except in enclosures and that the gun be sufficiently enclosed so as it be secure from hurting man or beast and that he that setteth the gun do give warning or notice thereof to all the neighbors on penalty of paying a fine of five pounds to the use of the Colony for every default.

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