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 1887, List of Members, By-laws, and Reports of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association, Important Resolutions, no. 11.(General Publisher, 1887)That the custom of carrying firearms, except in the immediate vicinity of Indian reservations, should be discountenanced, and it is hereby made the duty of the members of this Association, foremen of round-ups, and foremen of ranges, to use every effort in their power to prevent the carrying of firearms by cattle men at all times and places except when absolutely necessary. Resolved, That the members of this Association hereby pledge themselves as far as in their power to carry out the spirit of this resolution.”Item Open Access 1876 Wyo. Comp. Laws 352, An Act to Prevent the Carrying of Fire Arms and Other Deadly Weapons, ch. 52, § 1-3.(General Publisher, 1876)That hereafter it shall be unlawful for any resident of any city, town or village, or for any one not a resident of any city, town or village, in said territory, but a sojourner therein, to bear upon his person, concealed or openly, any fire arm or other deadly weapon, within the limits of any city, town or village.Item Open Access 1839 Terr. of Wis. Stat. 381, An Act to Prevent the Commission of Crimes, § 16(General Publisher, 1838)If any person shall go armed with a dirk, dagger, sword, pistol or pistols, or other offensive and dangerous weapon, without reasonable cause to fear an assault or other injury, or violence to his person, or to his family, or property, he may, on complaint of any other person having reasonable cause to fear an injury or breach of the peace, be required to find sureties for keeping the peace for a term not exceeding six months, with the right of appealing as before provided.Item Open Access Charter and Ordinances of the City of Superior; Also Harbor Act, Municipal Court Act, Rules of the Common Council and Board of Education, at 390, Ordinance no. 286, § 18 (1896)(General Publisher, 1896)It shall be unlawful for any person, other than a policeman or other officer authorized to maintain the peace or to serve process, to carry or wear any pistol, sling-shot, knuckles, bowie knife, dirk, dagger or any other dangerous weapon within the limits of the City of Superior, and any person convicted of a violation of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten (10) dollars nor more than one hundred (100) dollars.Item Open Access 1891 Wis. Sess. Laws 61, ch. 23, § 3, pt. 28(General Publisher, 1891)Authorized the city to prohibit or regulate the carrying of any pistol, slung shot, knuckles, bowie knife, dirk, or any other dangerous weapon.Item Open Access 1883 Wis. Sess. Laws 1034, ch. 351, § 32, pt. 45(General Publisher, 1883)Authorized the city to prohibit and prevent the carry of any pistol, sling-shot, knuckles, Bowie knife, dirk knife, dirk, or dagger, or other dangerous or deadly weapon.Item Open Access Charter and Ordinances of the City of La Crosse, with the Rules of the Common Council, at 176, Odinance no. 14, § 15 (1888)(General Publisher, 1881)It shall be unlawful for any person other than a policeman or other officer authorized to maintain the peace and to serve process to carry or wear any pistol, slungshot, knuckles, bowie knife, dirk or any other dangerous weapon, and any person convicted of a violation of this section shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.Item Open Access Charter and Ordinances of the City of La Crosse, with the Rules of the Common Council,at 25–26, ch. 4, § 3, pt. 36 (1888)(General Publisher, 1881)The common council has power. . . Pt. 36. To regulate or prohibit the carrying or wearing by any person, any pistol, slung-shot, knuckles, bowie knife, dirk or any other dangerous weapon, and to provide for the confiscation and sale of such weapons.Item Open Access 1858 Wis. Rev. Stat. 985, Of Proceedings to Prevent the Commission of Crime, ch. 175, § 18.(General Publisher, 1858)If any person shall go armed with a dirk, dagger, sword, pistol or pistols, or other offensive and dangerous weapon, without reasonable cause to fear an assault or other injury or violence to his person, or to his family or property, he may, on complaint of any other person having reasonable cause to fear an injury or breach of the peace, be required to find sureties for keeping the peace, for a term not exceeding six months, with the right of appealing as before provided.Item Open Access Arthur Loomis Sanborn, Annotated Statutes of Wisconsin, Containing the General Laws in Force October 1, 1889, Also the Revisers’ Notes to the Revised Statutes of 1858 and 1878, Notes of Cases Construing and Applying the Constitution and Statutes, and the Rules of the County and Circuit Courts and of the Supreme Court, at 2379, Armed Person to Give Security, § 4834 (Vol. 2, 1889)(General Publisher, 1848)If any person shall go armed with a dirk, dagger, sword, pistol or pistols, or other offensive and dangerous weapon, without reasonable cause to fear an assault or other injury or violence to his person, or to his family or property, he may, on complaint of any other person having reasonable cause to fear an injury or breach of the peace, be required to find sureties for keeping the peace for a term not exceeding six months, with the right of appealing as before provided.