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 University of Virginia Board of Visitors Minutes 6-7 (Oct. 4-5, 1824)(General Publisher, 1824)Banned students from keeping or using weapons or arms of any kind or gunpowder on campus.Item Open Access 1891 Vt. Acts & Resolves 95, ch. 8(General Publisher, 1891)Prohibited the carry of any firearms, dirk knife, bowie knife, dagger, or other dangerous or deadly weapon shall while "a member of and in attendance upon any school." Violators fined not exceeding twenty dollars.Item Open Access An Ordinance Prohibiting the Unlawful Carrying of Arms, DAILY DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, May 29, 1880, at 4 (Austin, TX) §§ 1-2(General Publisher, 1880)Prohibited the carry on or about his person, saddle, or saddle bags in the city hall any pistol, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, sword-cane, spear, brass knuckles, Bowie-knife, or other kind of knife manufactured or sold for purposes of offense or defense.Item Open Access 2 GEORGE WASHINGTON PASCHAL, A DIGEST OF THE LAWS OF TEXAS: CONTAINING LAWS IN FORCE, AND THE REPEALED LAWS ON WHICH RIGHTS REST. CAREFULLY ANNOTATED. 1322 (3d ed. 1873)(General Publisher, 1873)Prohibited entry into any church, religious assembly, school-room, or other place where persons are assembled for educational, literary, or scientific purposes, or into a ball room, social party, or other social gathering, composed of ladies and gentlemen, or to any election precinct on the day of an election, where people may be mustered for public duty or public assembly while armed with a Bowie-knife, dirk, butcher-knife, or any firearms known as a six-shooter, gun, or pistol of any kind. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars at the discretion of the court.Item Open Access 1871 Tenn. Pub. Stat. 108, Elections, 1869-70 ch. 22, § 2(General Publisher, 1858)Prohibited for any person from carrying, concealed or openly, any pistol, dirk, Bowie knife, Arkansas Toothpick, or other deadly or dangerous weapon at an election, fair, race course, or other public assembly.Item Open Access 1838, Ordinances of the Trustees of the University of North Carolina, ch. 5, § 13 (Raleigh Register).(General Publisher, 1838)Prohibited students from keeping any firearms or gunpowder at the college. Prohibited keeping, carrying, or owning any sword, dirk, sword-cane, or other deadly weapon. Prohibited use of firearms without the permission of the college president.Item Open Access Laws of the University of North Carolina, 9. Chapter 3—Collegiate Duties and Restrictions, § 13 (Raleigh, NC: J. Gales & Son, 1829)(General Publisher, 1829)Prohibited students from keeping a dog, firearms, or gun powder. Also prohiited carrying, keeping, or owning a sword, dirk, sword-cane, or any deadly weapon, or using fire arms without permission from a member of the faculty.Item Open Access 1852 Terr. of N.M. Laws 66-69, An Act Prohibiting the Carrying a Certain Class of Arms, within the Settlements and in Balls, § 3(General Publisher, 1852)Required those giving balls or fandangos to remove individuals armed with fire arms or other deadly weapons when liquor is sold.Item Open Access 1903 Mont. Laws at 49 Ch. 35, § 3(General Publisher, 1903)Prohibited entering any church, religious assembly, school room, or other place where persons are assembled for amusement or for educational or scientific purposes, or into any circus, show, or public exhbition of any kind, or into a ball room, socila party, or social gathering, or to any election precinct or any place of registration, on the day or days of any election or registration, where people of the State are collected to register or vote on any election. Prohibited weapons included pistol, other firearms, dirk, dagger, slung shot, sword cane, knuckles, or Bowie knife. Violators punished by not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars.Item Open Access A law regulating weapons: carrying concealed or in certain places, brandishing, and sales to minors, Ordinance No. 31, § 10, in Revised Ordinances of the City of Richmond, Missouri (1910).(General Publisher, 1910)If any person shall carry, concealed upon or about his person any deadly or dangerous weapon, or shall go into any church or place where people have assembled for religious worship, or into any school room where people have assembled for educational, literary or social purposes, or to any election precinct on any election day, or into any court room during the setting of court, or into any other public assemblage of persons met for lawful purpose, other than for military drill or meetings called under the militia law of this state, having upon or about his person, any kind of fire-arms, bowie knife, dirk, dagger, slung shot or other deadly weapon, or shall, in the presence of one or more persons, exhibit such weapon in a rude, angry and threatening manner, or shall have or carry any such weapon upon or about his person when intoxicated or under the influence of intoxicating drink, or shall directly or indirectly loan or barter to any minor, any such weapon without the consent of the parent or guardian of such minor, he shall upon conviction be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the city prison not less than five days nor more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment."