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 Act of May 5, 1777, ch. 3, in 9 HENING'S STATUTES AT LARGE 281, 281-82 (1821)(General Publisher, 1777)An act to oblige the free male inhabitants of this state above a certain age to give assurance of Allegiance to the same, and for other purposes. WHEREAS allegiance and protection are reciprocal, and those who will not bear the former are not entitled to the benefits of the later, Therefore Be it enacted by the General Assembly, that all free born male inhabitants of this state, above the age of sixteen years, except imported servants during the time of their service, shall, on or before the tenth day of October next, take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation before some one of the justices of the peace of the county, city, or borough, where they shall respectively inhabit; and the said justice shall give a certificate thereof to every such person, and the said oath or affirmation shall be as followeth, viz . . . And the justices tendering such oath or affirmation are hereby directed to deliver a list of the names of such recusants to the county lieutenant, or chief commanding officer of the militia, who is hereby authorised and directed forthwith to cause such recusants to be disarmedItem Open Access Act of May 5, 1777, ch. 3, in 9 Hening’s Statute at Large 281, 281-82 (1821)(General Publisher, 1777)Required any “free male inhabitants of this state above a certain age” to take an oath of allegiance to the state.Item Open Access 1779 Vt. Acts & Resolves 59, An Act for Forming and Regulating the Militia; and for Encouragement of Military Skill, for the Better Defense of This State.(General Publisher, 1779)That every listed soldier and other householder, shall always be provided with, and have in constant readiness, a well fixed firelock, the barrel not less than three feet and a half long, or other good firearms, to the satisfaction of the commissioned officers of the company to which he doth belong, or in the limits of which he dwells; a good sword, cutlass, tomahawk or bayonet; a worm, and priming wire, fit for each gunItem Open Access VERMONT STATE PAPERS, BEING A COLLECTION OF RECORDS AND DOCUMENTS, CONNECTED WITH THE ASSUMPTION AND ESTABLISHMENT OF GOVERNMENT BY THE PEOPLE OF VERMONT; TOGETHER WITH THE JOURNAL OF THE COUNCIL OF SAFETY, THE FIRST CONSTITUTION, THE EARLY JOURNALS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, AND THE LAWS FROM THE YEAR 1779 TO 1786, INCLUSIVE 307 (1823).(General Publisher, 1779)Required every listed soldier and other householder to be provided and have in constant readiness: a firearm, blade weapon, gunpowder, bullets, and cleaning equipment.Item Open Access Vt. Const., ch. 1, § XV(General Publisher, 1777)Declared a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves and the state.Item Open Access 4 Statutes at Large of South Carolina 343-44, An Act to Prevent Sedition, and Punish Insurgents and Disturbers of the Public Peace, § 1 (1838)(General Publisher, 1776)Prohibited any person to “take up arms with a hostile intent.”Item Open Access Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in New England 567 (vol. 7, 1862)(General Publisher, 1776)Required any male citizen age sixteen or above to take a loyalty oath and failure to do so without providing porper justificaito results in disarmamentItem Open Access By-Laws and Ordinances of the City of Pittsburgh, and the Acts of Assembly Relating Thereto; with Notes and References to Judicial Decisions Thereon, and an Appendix, Relating to Several Subjects Connected with the Laws and Police of the City Corporation, at 28-29, ch. 703, § 1 (1828)(General Publisher, 1774)Prohibited on any thirty-first day of December, or first or second day of January, in every year, wantonly, and without reasonable occasion, discharge and fire off any hand-gun, pistol or other fire-arms, or shall cast, throw or fire any squibs, rockets or other fire-works, within the inhabited parts of this province, to the disturbance of any of his majesty’s subjects there inhabiting and beingItem Open Access 1782 Pa. Acts 193, ch. 101, § 5(General Publisher, 1779)Authorized the liutenant or sub-liutenant to disarm those who have not taken an oath of allegianceItem Open Access 9 Stat. at Large of Pa. 347, ch. 836, § 4 (1903)(General Publisher, 1779)Prohibited firearm possession for people “disaffected to the liberty and independence” of the state, empowered officers to disarm any person who did not take an oath.