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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The Statutes at Large; Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia from the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619, Volume 6, Page 531, § 5
(General Publisher, 1755)
that every person so as aforesaid enlisted (except free mulattoes, negroes, and Indians) shall be armed in the manner following, that is to say: Every soldier shall be furnished with a firelock well fixed, a bayonet fitted to the same, a double cartouch-box.
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7 William Waller Hening, The Statutes at Large; a Collection of all the Laws of Virginia 35 (1820)
(General Publisher, 1756)
Prohibited Catholics from being armed and requiring oaths of allegiance and supremacy in front of justices of the peace.
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4 Statutes at Large of South Carolina 34, An Act for Disposing of the Accadians Now in Charleston, § 10 (1838)
(General Publisher, 1756)
Prohibited “Acadians” from using a firearm or other offensive weapon and allowed people to seize such weapons.
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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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1740 S.C. Acts, An Act for the Better Ordering and Governing of Negroes and other Slaves in this Province, § 23
(General Publisher, 1740)
Prohibited any “negro or slave” from possessing or using firearms or weapons without a ticket or license from their master, punishable by seizure of weapons.
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An Act for preventing Mischief being done in the Town of Newport, or in any other Town in this Government, 1731 Rhode Island Session Laws pp. 240-241
(General Publisher, 1731)
Restricted the firing of any gun, pistol, squib, rocket, or firework on any street or in any tarvern after dark. Violators fined five shillings on first offense, ten shillings on second offense, twenty shillings for offenses beyond the second.
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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.
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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.

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