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 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 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 1916 Va. Acts 568, ch. 348, §1.(General Publisher, 1916)Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to hunt, pursue, kill, or destroy in any way, any wild game or to enter with dog or gun or both with intent to hunt, kill, pursue, destroy any wild game upon any of those tracts of land in Shenandoah county in what is known as the Massanutten purchase area to which the government of the United States of America has acquired the legal title under the Week’s law for the acquisition of lands upon the head waters . . .Item Open Access 1919 Tex. Gen. Laws 297-98, An Act to Preserve, Propagate, Distribute, and Protect the Wild Game, Wild Birds, Wild Fowl of the State . . . , ch. 157, § 42.(General Publisher, 1919)It shall be unlawful for any citizen of this State to hunt outside of the county of his residence with a gun without first having procured from the Game, Fish and Oyster Commissioner or one of his deputies or from the County Clerk of the County in which he resides a license to hunt, and for which he shall pay to the officer from whom he secures such license the sum of two ($2.00) dollars. . . Any person hunting any game or birds protected by the laws of the State, and who shall refuse to show his license herein provided for to any sheriff . . . on demand shall be deemed guilty of a violation of the provisions of this law, and any person violating any of the provisions of this Section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in a sum of not less than ten (10.00) dollars nor more than one hundred (100.00) dollars.Item Open Access 1918 S.C. Acts 723, no. 393, § 1(General Publisher, 1918)Provided further, that it shall be unlawful to at any time use any automatic or pump gun while hunting birds in said county. Any person violating any of the provisions hereof shall upon conviction in any Court of competent jurisdiction, be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than twenty dollars, or be imprisoned at hard labor not less than ten days nor more than twenty days for each and every offense.Item Open Access 1914 R.I. Pub. Laws 245, ch. 1032, § 10(General Publisher, 1914)Every person who shall at any time of the year take, kill or destroy any quail or partridge by means of any trap, snare, net or spring, or who shall construct, erect, set, repair, maintain or tend any trap, snare, net or spring, for the purpose of taking, killing or destroying any quail or partridge, who shall shoot any water fowl by means or by use of any battery, swivel, punt, or pivot gun, or who shall take, kill, or pursue with intent to kill any migratory bird or insectivorous bird between sunset and sunrise, shall be fined for each offense twenty dollars.