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 1875 Wyo. Terr. Sess. Laws ch. 52, §1(General Publisher, 1875)Prohibited the carry of any firearm or other deadly weapon with any city, town, or village.Item Open Access City of Staunton, Va. Code Ch. II, § 135 p. 115 (1910)(General Publisher, 1910)Prohibited carrying of firearms, throwing stones, or other missiles within the park.Item Open Access The Code of the City of Staunton, Virginia 115 (1910).(General Publisher, 1910)All persons are forbidden to enter or leave the park except by the gateways; to climb or walk upon any of the walls or fence, to turn cattle, horses, goats or swine into the park; to carry firearms, or to throw stones or other missiles within it; to cut, break, or in any way injure or deface the trees, benches, shrubs, plants, turf, or any of the buildings, fences, bridges, or other constructions upon the park; or to converse with, or in any way hinder those engaged in its construction.Item Open Access 1875 Va. Acts 102, ch. 124(General Publisher, 1875)Prohibited the carry of any gun, pistol, Bowie knife, dagger, or other dangerous weapon into places of public worship without sufficient cause.Item Open Access 1879 Tex. Crim. Stat. tit. IX, Ch. 4, Art. 320(General Publisher, 1879)Prohibited carry of a pistol, other firearm, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, sword-cane, spear, brass-knuckles, bowie-knife, or any other kind of a knife manufactured and sold for the purposes of offense and defense into 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 exhibition of any kind, or into a ball-room. Violators fined not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars and shall forfeit the weapon.Item Open Access 2 A DIGEST OF THE LAWS OF TEXAS: CONTAINING THE LAWS IN FORCE, AND THE REPEALED LAWS ON WHICH RIGHTS REST, FROM 1754 TO 1874, at 1323 (George W. Paschal ed., 4th ed. 1874).(General Publisher, 1874)Prohibited any person from carrying a pistol, other firearm, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, sword-cane, spear, brass-knuckles, bowie-knife, or any other kind of knife manufactured and sold for offense or defense into any church, religious assembly, school room, other place where persons are assembled for amusement, educational, or scientific purposes, or into a ball-room, social party, or social gathering, or any election precinct on the day of election, or places of muster or other public duty, or to any other public assembly. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not les than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars with forfeiture of the weapon on first offense. Further offenses may also be imprisoned not more than ninety days.Item Open Access Tex. Act of April 12, 1871, Art. 320(General Publisher, 1871)Expands the places where carrying a weapon may be prohibited to include "places where persons are assembled for amusement [... including] any circus, show, or public exhibition of any kind [...]" - however, the law makes an exception "as may be required or permitted by law." Gun shows are permitted by law under CA Penal Code § 27300 et seq. The restrictions on general public carry may be overbroad and thus invalid in light of the Bruen decision.Item Open Access Tex. Act of Apr. 12, 1871, as codified in Tex. Penal Code (1879). Art. 163.(General Publisher, 1871)Prohibited the carrying of a concealed or open gun, pistol, Bowie knife, or other dangerous weapon within a half mile of a polling site on an election day. Also prohibited generally carrying a pistol, dirk, dagger, slungshot, sword cane, spear, brass knuckles, Bowie knife, or other kind of knife used for offense or defense. Punishable by fine and forfeiture of the weapon.Item Open Access 1871 Tex. Laws 25, ch. 34, § 3(General Publisher, 1871)Prohibited carry of pistol, other firearm, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, sword-cane, spear, brass knuckles, Bowie-knife, any other knife for offense or defense in public assemblies for education or amusement, ball rooms, social parties, elections, locatons for muster. Violators guilty of a misdmemeanor punishable by fine no less than fifty but not more than five hundred dollars and forfeiture of the weapon. Subsequent violations shall also be jailed for no more than ninety days.Item Open Access 2 A DIGEST OF THE LAWS OF TEXAS: CONTAINING THE LAWS IN FORCE, AND THE REPEALED LAWS ON WHICH RIGHTS REST, FROM 1754 TO 1874, at 1323 (George W. Paschal ed., 4th ed. 1874). Art. 6511(General Publisher, 1870)Prohibited the carry of any bowie-knife, dirk, butcher-knife, or fire-arms, including any six-shooter, gun, or pistol into any church, religious assembly, any school-room or other place where persons are assembled for educational, literary, or sceintific 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 or days of any election, where any portion of the people of this state are collected to vote at any election, or to any other place where people may be assembled to muster, or to perform any other public duty, or any other public assembly.