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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    An Alphabetical Digest Of The Public Statute Law Of South-Carolina, at 37, tit. 115, § 13 (Vol. 2, 1814)
    (General Publisher, 1740)
    That if any person shall fire or shoot off any gun or pistol in the night time after dark and before day light, without necessity, every such person shall forfeit the sum of forty shillings current money, for each gun so fired as aforesaid
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    DAVID J. MCCORD, 7 STATUTES AT LARGE OF SOUTH CAROLINA 417–19 (1840) (enacted 1740, re-enacted 1743)
    (General Publisher, 1740)
    Required ever white male inhabitant liable for militia service to carry a gun or pair of horse pistols in good order and fit for service to church. Also required at least six charges of gun powder and ball. Violators liable for twenty shillings on each violation.
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    1740 S.C. Acts, An Act for the Better Ordering and Governing of Negroes and other Slaves in this Province, § 41
    (General Publisher, 1740)
    And Whereas an ill custom has prevailed in this Province, of firing guns in the night time; for the prevention thereof for the future, be it enacted that if any person shall fire or shoot off any gun or pistol in the night time after dark and before day-light without necessity every such person shall forfeit the sum of 40s. current money for each gun so fired as aforesaid

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