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 1883 Wis. Sess. Laws 369-70, ch. 152, ch. 6 [sic], § 8, pt. 16.(General Publisher, 1883)To prevent and prohibit the manufacture, keeping or storing of nitro-glycerine, and to regulate the keeping and storing of gunpowder, gun cotton, burning fluids, coal oils and other dangerous explosive materials, in said city, and to provide for the inspection of illuminating oils and fluids.Item Open Access Charter and Ordinances of the City of La Crosse, with the Rules of the Common Council, at 239-242, Ordinance no. 37 (1888)(General Publisher, 1881)It shall be unlawful for any person to keep for sale, sell or give away any gunpowder, giant powder, nitro-glycerine, gun-cotton, dynamite or any other explosive substance of like nature or use without having first obtained a license therefor from the city of La Crosse in the manner hereinafter provided. Any person convicted of a violation of this section shall be punished by a fine of twenty-five dollars for each offense.Item Open Access Supplement to the Revised Statutes of the State of Wisconsin, 1878, Containing the General Laws from 1879 to 1883, with the Revisers’ Notes to the Statutes of 1878 and Notes to Cases Construing and Applying These and Similar Statutes by the Supreme Court of Wisconsin and the Courts of Other States, at 847, ch. 181, §4397a(1) (1883)(General Publisher, 1882)It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or use, or have in his possession, for the purpose of exposing for sale or use, any toy pistol, toy revolver, or other toy fire-arm.Item Open Access 1881 Wash. Sess. Laws 121-22, An Act to Incorporate the City of Port Townsend, ch. 2, § 21.(General Publisher, 1881)The City of Port Townsend has power to prevent injury or annoyance from anything dangerous, offensive, or unhealthy, and . . . to regulate the transportation and keeping of gunpowder, or other combustibles, and to provide or license magazines for the same[.]Item Open Access 1881 Wash. Sess. Laws 93, An Act to Incorporate the City of Dayton, chap. 2, § 20.(General Publisher, 1881)The city of Dayton shall have power to prevent injury or annoyance from anything dangerous, offensive, or unhealthy, and . . . to regulate the transportation, storing and keeping of gunpowder and other combustibles and to provide or license magazines for the same[.]Item Open Access Edward D. McLaughlin, The Revised Statutes and Codes of the State of Washington, at 1042, § 6353 (1896)(General Publisher, 1883)Sale of Toy Pistols to Children, It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to sell or offer for sale, any toy pistols within this state, and every person who shall sell, give, furnish, or cause to be furnished to any person under the age of sixteen years, any pistol, toy pistol or other pocket weapon, in which explosives may be used, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be fined in any sum not less than five, nor more than twenty-five dollars.Item Open Access 1867 Terr. of Wash. Stat. 116, An Act to Incorporate the City of Vancouver, ch. 1, § 32, pt. 16.(General Publisher, 1867)To regulate the storage and sale of gunpowder, or other combustible material, and to provide, by all possible and proper means, against danger or risk of damage by fire arising from carelessness, negligence or otherwise.Item Open Access 1881 Wash. Sess. Laws 76, An Act to Confer a City Govt. on New Tacoma, ch. 6, § 34, pt. 15(General Publisher, 1881)Authorized New Tacoma to regulate transporting, storing, or selling gunpowder, giant powder, dynamite, nitroglycerine, or other combustibles without a license, as well as the carrying concealed deadly weapons, and the use of guns, pistols, firearms, firecrackers.Item Open Access 1909 Wash. Sess. Laws 972–73, ch. 249, § 265(General Publisher, 1909)Prohibited manufacturing, selling, disposing of, or possessing any slung-shot, sand club, or metal knuckles. Also prohibited the concealed carry of any dagger, dirk, knife, pistol, or other dangerous weapon. Prohibited use of suppressors. Punishable as a gross misdemeanor.Item Open Access Ch. 249, Subchapter 7—Crimes against Public Health and Safety, §§ 252 & 254 in 1909, Wash. Sess. Laws 965, 966-67 (1909 E. L. Boardman).(General Publisher, 1909)Every person who shall make or keep any explosive or combustible substance in any city or village, or carry it through the streets thereof in a quantity, or manner prohibited by law, or by ordinance of such municipality; and every person who, by careless, negligent or unauthorized use or management of any such explosive or combustible substance, shall injure or cause injury to the person or property of another, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.Every person who shall put up for sale, or who shall deliver to any warehouseman, dock, depot, or common carrier any package, cask or can containing benzine, gasoline, naptha, nitroglycerine, dynamite, powder or other explosive or combustible substance, without having printed thereon in a conspicuous place in large letters the word “Explosive,” shall be guilty of a misdemeanor."