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 1925 Wyo. Sess. Laws 110, ch. 106, § 1.(General Publisher, 1925)Every person not being a citizen of the United States, who shall own, possess, wear or carry any dirk, pistol, shot gun, rifle, or other fire arm, bowie knife, dagger, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon, shall upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined in any sum not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) or imprisoned in the county jail not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.Item Open Access Other Organizations Parading With Arms, §§ 44-45, Ch. 163, Session Laws of the State of Wyoming (1925).(General Publisher, 1925)It shall not be lawful for any body of men whatso ever, other than the regularly organized National Guard or the troops of the United States, to associate themselves together as a military company or organizationItem Open Access 1921 Wyo. Sess. Laws 101, ch. 83, § 62.(General Publisher, 1921)It shall be unlawful for any person to take, kill, wound or destroy any of the game fish of this State by the use of any revolver, pistol, shot gun, rifle or fire arms of any kind or nature.Item Open Access 1921 Wyo. Sess. Laws 112-13, ch. 83, § 97.(General Publisher, 1921)It shall be unlawful for any person to take into the game fields or forests of this State, or have in possession while in the game fields or forests of this State, or to have in possession while out for the purpose of hunting the game animals or game birds of this State any device or mechanism designed to silence or muffle or minimize the report of any firearm, whether such device or mechanism be separated or attached to any firearm or not.Item Open Access 1928-1929 Wis. Sess. Laws 157, An Act to Create . . . the Statutes, Relating to Machine Guns and Providing a Penalty, ch. 132, § 1(General Publisher, 1929)Prohibited owning, using, or possession a machine gun. Punishable by imprisonment of 1-15 years.Item Open Access 1921 Wis. Sess. Laws 870, ch. 530, § 1.(General Publisher, 1921)No person shall hunt game with any means other than the use of a gun held at arm’s length and discharged from the shoulder; or place, spread or set any net, pitfall, spring gun, pivot gun, swivel gun, or other similar contrivance for the purpose of catching, or which might catch, take or ensnare game . . . and no person shall carry with him in any automobile any gun or rifle unless the same is unloaded, and knocked down or unloaded and inclosed within a carrying case[.]Item Open Access 1925 W. Va. Acts 30–31, ch. 3, § 7(b)(General Publisher, 1925)Prohibited publicly displaying for rent or sale any revolver, pistol, dirk, Bowie knife, slungshot, other dangerous weapon, machine gun, submachine gun, or high powered rifle. Requires dealers to keep a register. Prohibited selling, renting, giving, or lending any of these weapons to an unnaturalized person.Item Open Access 1925 W. Va. Acts 25–30, ch. 3, § 7 (a)(General Publisher, 1925)Prohibited unlicensed carrying of a pistol, dirk, Bowie knife, slungshot, razor, billy, metallic or other false knuckles, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon. Punishable by imprisonment for 6-12 months for the first offense, and for 1-5 years for subsequent offenses, and in either case, a fine of $50-200.Item Open Access Ordinance No. 1052, §§ 1-2, 5, & 8-9, Vancouver City Council (1920) (Vancouver, Washington).(General Publisher, 1920)It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, give away, purchase or receive any pistol, revolver, derringer, bowie knife, dirk, or other weapon of like character which can be concealed on the person without securing and requiring the proper license to do as hereinafter set forth. No person shall sell, give away or deal in the weapons herein specified without first obtaining from the Chief of Police of Vancouver, Washington, a license so to do,Item Open Access 1926 Va. Acts. 285-87, ch. 158, §§ 1-9.(General Publisher, 1926)Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it shall be the duty of every person residing in this State and owning a pistol or revolver therein, to pay on or before the first day of January of each year a license tax of one dollar on each pistol or revolver so owned, or in the event that such pistol or revolver shall be acquired by any such person on or after the first day of February, such license tax shall be forthwith paid thereon.