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 1899 Wyo. Rev. Stat. 1253, div. 5, tit. 1, ch. 3, § 5052(General Publisher, 1899)It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, barter or give to any other person under the age of twenty-one years any pistol, dirk or bowie knife, slung-shot, knucks or other deadly weapon that can be worn or carried concealed upon or about the person, or to sell, barter or give to any person under the age of sixteen years any cartridges manufactured and designed for use in a pistol; and any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this section shall be fined in any sum not more than fifty dollars.Item Open Access An Act Defining Crimes, Regulating Criminal Procedure and for Other Purposes, ch. 73, § 97, in 1890 Wyo. Sess. Laws 127, 140.(General Publisher, 1890)It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, barter or give to any other person under the age of twenty-one years any pistol, dirk or bowie-knife, slung-shot, knucks or other deadly weapon that can be worn or carried concealed upon or about the person, or to sell, barter or give to any person under the age of sixteen years any cartridges manufactured and designed for use in a pistol; and any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this section shall be fined in any sum not more than fifty dollars."Item Open Access 1891 W. Va. Code 915–16, ch. 148, § 7(General Publisher, 1891)If a person carry about his person any revolver or other pistol, dirk, bowie knife, razor, slung shot, billy, metallic or other false knuckles, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon of like kind or character, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and fined not less than twenty-five nor more than two hundred dollars, and may, at the discretion of the court, be confined in jail not less than one nor more than twelve months; and if any person shall sell or furnish any such weapon as is hereinbefore mentioned to a person whom he knows, or has reason, from his appearance or otherwise, to believe to be under the age of twenty-one years, he shall be punished as hereinbefore providedItem 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 Ordinance No. 97, §§ 1-4, Town Council of Stanwood (1918) (Stanwood, Washington).(General Publisher, 1917)it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to sell, give or permit to be sold or given to any person under the age of eighteen (18) years any revolver, pistol or toy-pistol within the town of Stanwood.Item Open Access Act of March 23, 1935, ch. 172, § 8, Wash. Sess. Laws 599, 601.(General Publisher, 1935)No person shall deliver a pistol to any person under the age of twenty-one or to one who he has reasonable cause to believe has been convicted of a crime of violence, or is a drug addict, an habitual drunkard, or of unsound mind."Item Open Access Ch. 249, Subchapter 6—Crimes against Morality, Decency, etc., §193, no. 4 in 1909, Wash. Sess. Laws 942, 947 (1909 E. L. Boardman).(General Publisher, 1909)Every person who Shall sell, or give, or permit to be sold or given to any person under the age of eighteen years, any revolver, pistol, or toy pistol Shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.Item Open Access The Charter and General Ordinances of the Town of Lexington, Virginia Page 87, Image 107 (1892)(General Publisher, 1869)If any person sell, barter, give or furnish, or cause to be sold, bartered, given or furnished to any minor under sixteen years of age, cigarettes, or pistols, or dirks, or bowie knives, having good cause to believe him or her to be a minor under sixteen years of age, shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars."Item Open Access 1902-1904 Va. Acts 261, ch. 186, §§ 1-2(General Publisher, 1903)1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, or association, to sell, barter, exchange, furnish, or dispose of by purchase, gift, or in any other manner, any toy gun, pistol, rifle, or other toy firearm, if the same shall, by means of powder or other explosive discharge blank or ball charges, to any person under the age of twelve years.Item Open Access 1889-90 Va. Acts 118, ch. 152, § 1(General Publisher, 1890)Banned the sale, barter, transfer, giving, or furnishing, or cause to be sold to any minor under sixteen pistols, dirks, Bowie knives. Violators fined not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars.