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 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 1913 Wyo. Sess. Laws 165, ch. 121, § 38(General Publisher, 1913)Required nonresidents obtain a license for $5 from the Justice of the Peace in order to hunt game birds in the state.Item Open Access 1899 Wyo. Rev. Stat. 600, div. 1, tit. 15, ch. 1, § 2106(General Publisher, 1899)No person or persons shall ensnare, net or trap within this state any wild duck, wild goose, or wild swan at any time. . . . There shall be established from the first day of September until the first day of May, an open season in which ducks, brant or geese may be shot, killed or taken by means of gun shot, but nothing but shoulder guns may be used at any time. And it shall be unlawful to kill any of the above mentioned water fowls by any other means, or during any other period, than above specified; Provided That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to kill any wild swan in the state of Wyoming. Any person or persons who shall violate the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than ten nor more than twenty-five dollars for each offense, and may be imprisoned in the county jail for not more than sixty days.Item Open Access 1899 Wyo. Sess. Laws 32-33, An Act for the Better Protection of the Game and Fish of this State . . . , ch. 19, § 14.(General Publisher, 1899)Allowed residents to receive hunting license for $1, non-residents to receive hunting license for $40.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 1917 Wis. Sess. Laws 1243-44, ch. 668, § 3, pt. 29.57 (4).(General Publisher, 1917)No owner of lands embraced within any such wild life refuge, and no other person whatever, shall hunt or trap within the boundaries of any wild life refuge, state park, or state fish hatchery lands; nor have in his possession or under his control therein any gun or rifle, unless the same is unloaded and knocked down or enclosed within its carrying case; but nothing herein shall prohibit, prevent, or interfere with the state conservation commission or its deputies agents or employees in the destruction of injurious animals.Item Open Access 1913 Wis. Sess. Laws 655, ch. 578, § 1.(General Publisher, 1913)and it shall also be unlawful for any person carrying or being in possession of a gun to run or use a pointer or setter dog or dogs in the field, or upon lands frequented by or upon which game birds may be found between the first day of August and the seventh day of September. . .Item Open Access 1890 W. Va. Acts 173, ch. 14(General Publisher, 1890)And it shall be unlawful for any person by the use of any swivel or pivot gun, or any other than the common shoulder gun, or by the aid of any push boat, or sneak boat, used for carrying such gun, to catch, kill, wound or destroy, or to pursue with such intent upon any of the waters, bogs . . . or any cover to which wild fowl resort within this State, any wild goose, wild duck or brant.Item Open Access 1913 Wash. Sess. Laws 90-91, ch. 33, § 1.(General Publisher, 1913)Every person who shall use any sink box or sink boat or sneak boat for the purpose of shooting wild ducks, geese, swan or other water fowl, or who shall use any battery, swivel or pivot gun, or any gun other than one to be held in the hands and fired from the shoulder, at any time, for the purposes of shooting wild ducks, geese, swan, brant or other water fowl . . . shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as hereinafter provided.Item Open Access Ch. 54—Protecting Game on Lake Washington, §§ 1-3, in Session Laws of the State of Washington Eleventh Session (1909).(General Publisher, 1909)That it shall be unlawful to fire any gun or to kill, shoot, entrap, ensnare, maim, or destroy any wild birds at any season of the year upon the waters of Lake Washington, or within one mile of its shores, and any person who shall kill, shoot, entrap, ensnare, destroy, or maim any wild birds at any season of the year upon the waters of Lake Washington, or within one mile of the shores of said lake, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as hereinafter provided.