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 1725 Pa. Laws 31, An Act For The Better Securing Of The City Of Philadelphia From The Danger Of Gunpowder, § 2.(General Publisher, 1725)No person whatever within the precincts of the city of Philadelphia aforesaid, nor within Two Miles thereof, shall, from and after the Time the Powder Store aforesaid is so erected and finished presume to keep in any House, Shop, Cellar, Store, or Place of the said City, nor within Two Miles thereof, other than the Powder Store aforesaid, any more or greater Quantity, at any one Time, than Twelve Pounds of Gun-powder, under the Penalty of Ten Pounds for every such Offence.Item Open Access 3 Stat. at Large of Pa. 253-254, ch. 245, § IV(General Publisher, 1721)Restricted the firing of guns or other firearms within the city. Violators fined five shillings or two days jail time.Item Open Access John C. Lowber, Ordinances of the Corporation of the City of Philadelphia, at 15-16, Ordinance No. 3, § 4 (1812)(General Publisher, 1721)That if any person or persons, of what sex, age, degree or quality soever, from and after publication hereof, shall fire any gun or other fire-arms, or shall make, or cause to be made, or sell or utter, or offer to expose to sale, any squibs, rockets or other fire works, or shall cast, throw or or fire, any squibs, rockets, or other fire works, within the city of Philadelphia, without the governor’s special license for the same, of which license due notice shall first be given to the mayor of the said city, such person or persons so offending, and being thereof convicted before any one justice of the peace of the said city, either by confession of the party so offending, or by the view of any of the said justices, or by the oath or affirmation of one or more witnesses, shall for every such offence forfeit and pay the sum of five shillingsItem Open Access The Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania from 1682 to 1801, at, 46-49, ch. 456, §§ 1-8(General Publisher, 1721)That if any person or persons shall presume, at any time after the sixteenth day of November, in this present year on thousand seven hundred and twenty one, to carry any gun or hunt on the improved or inclosed lands of any plantation other than his own, unless he have license or permission from the owner of such lands or plantation, and shall thereof convicted ether upon view of any justice of the peace within this province, or by the oath or affirmation of any one or more witnesses, before any justice of the peace, he shall for every such offense forfeit the sum of ten shillings.Item Open Access 1715-55 N.C. 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Laws 36, An Additional Act to an Act for Appointing Toll-Books, and for Preventing People from Driving Horses, Cattle, or Hogs to Other Persons’ Lands, ch. 5, § 7(General Publisher, 1729)Prohibited “slaves” to hunt on any person’s land besides their master’s w ith any weapon.Item Open Access Laws of the Royal Colony of New Jersey 1703-1745, at 293, An Act to Prevent the Killing of Deer out of Season, and Against Carrying of Guns and Hunting by Persons not Qualified (vol. 2, passed May 5, 1722)(General Publisher, 1722)That if any Person or Persons shall presume, at any Time after the Publication hereof, to carry any Gun, or Hunt on the Improved or Inclosed Lands in any Plantation, and on other than his own, unless he have Lisence or Permission from the owner of such Lands or Plantation, and shall be thereof Convicted, either upon the View of any Justice of the Peace within this Province, or by the Oath or Affirmation of any one or more Witnesses, before any Justice of the Peace, he shall, for every such Offence, forfeit the Sum of Fifteen Shillings, with Costs attending such Conviction.Item Open Access 1728 Mass. Acts 516, An Act for Repealing an Act Entitled, “An Act For The Punishing And Preventing Of Dueling,” and for Making Other Provisions Instead Thereof, ch. 5.(General Publisher, 1728).That whoever from and after the publication of this Act shall be so hardy and wicked as to fight a duel, or for private malice, displeasure, fury or revenge, voluntarily engage in a rencounter, with rapier or small-sword, backsword, pistol or any other dangerous weapon, to the hazard of life, mayhem, or wounding of the parties, or the affray of his Majesty's good subjects, although death doth not thereby ensue; or shall by word, message, or any other way, challenge another to fight a duel, or shall accept a challenge, although no duel be fought, or shall any ways abet, prompt, encourage or seduce any person to fight a duel, or to challenge another to fightItem Open Access Acts and Laws Passed by the General Court or Assembly of His Majesties Colony of Connecticut in New-England 292(General Publisher, 1723)Prohibited the prosecution of “any Indian” for gun or ammunition except by a particular Court, requiring the guns be forfeited.Item Open Access 1723 Conn. Acts 292, An Act for Preventing Lending Guns, Ammunition etc. to the Indians(General Publisher, 1723)Prohibited giving or selling “any Indian” guns and ammunition.Item Open Access 9 Geo. 1, c. 22 (1723), An act for the more effectual punishing wicked and evil-disposed persons going armed in disguise, and doing injuries and violences to the persons and properties of his Majesty’s subjects, and for the more speedy bringing the offenders to justice.(General Publisher, 1723)Prohibited anyone going armed with sword, fire-arms, or other offensive weapons while having their faces blacked or disguised in any forest, chase, park, paddock, grounds inclosed with any wall, pale, or fence… or in any high road, open heath, common or down, or to wilfully hunt unlawfully. Violators guilty of a felony, and shall suffer death.