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 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.Item Open Access 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.Item Open Access 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.Item Open Access 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 aforesaidItem Open Access 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.Item Open Access 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 aforesaidItem Open Access 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.Item Open Access 1762 R.I. Pub. Laws 132(General Publisher, 1762)And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That no person whatsoever shall fire a gun or other fireworks within one hundred yards of the said powder house, upon the penalty of paying a fine of ten shillings lawful money, for every such offence, to be recovered by the Town Treasurer, fo rthe use of the said Town.Item Open Access 1762 R.I. Pub. Laws 132, An Act of June 1762.(General Publisher, 1762)That every person who shall import gunpowder into the town of Newport aforesaid shall cause the same to be conveyed immediately to the powder house at the North Easterly part of town, before the vessel in which the said Powder shall be imported, be brought to any Wharf; upon the penalty of paying into the Town-Treasury of the said Town of Newport, a Fine of Ten Shillings Lawful Money, for every cask which shall not be conveyed to the Powder House as aforesaidItem Open Access A Digest of the Ordinances of the Corporation of the City of Philadelphia, at 87, Firing of Guns, &c., Act of April 9, 1760, § 7. (1828)(General Publisher, 1760)No person whatsoever shall presume to shoot at, or kill with a fire arm, any pigeon, dove, partridge, or other fowl, in the open streets of the city of Philadelphia, or in the gardens, orchards and inclosures, adjoining upon and belonging to any of the dwelling-houses within the limits of the said city, or suburbs thereof, or any of the boroughs or towns within this province,