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    1925 W. Va. Acts 30–31, ch. 3, § 7(b)
    (General Publisher, 1925)
    Prohibited publicly displaying for rent or sale any revolver, pistol, dirk, Bowie knife, slungshot, other dangerous weapon, machine gun, submachine gun, or high powered rifle. Requires dealers to keep a register. Prohibited selling, renting, giving, or lending any of these weapons to an unnaturalized person.
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    1925 W. Va. Acts 25–30, ch. 3, § 7 (a)
    (General Publisher, 1925)
    Prohibited unlicensed carrying of a pistol, dirk, Bowie knife, slungshot, razor, billy, metallic or other false knuckles, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon. Punishable by imprisonment for 6-12 months for the first offense, and for 1-5 years for subsequent offenses, and in either case, a fine of $50-200.
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    1915 W.Va. Acts 404, Reg. Sess., Municipal Charters, ch. 11, § 16, pt. 25.
    (General Publisher, 1915)
    To regulate the keeping, handling and transportation of explosives and dangerous combustibles within the municipality; and to regulate or prohibit the use of fire crackers, sky rockets, toy pistols, air rifles or guns, within the said municipality.
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    1909 W.Va. Acts 59, ch. 2, art. 4, § 7.
    (General Publisher, 1909)
    [T]o regulate or prohibit the keeping of gun powder and other combustible or dangerous articles[.]
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    1909 W.Va. Acts 479-80, ch. 60, § 19.
    (General Publisher, 1909)
    The carrying of any uncased gun in any of the fields or woods of this state, by any person not having the lawful right to hunt, pursue or kill game, birds or animals in such fields or woods shall, as to such person, other than the bona fide owner, or owners of such fields or woods, his or their child or children, tenant or tenants, lessee or lessees, be deemed prima facie evidence of a violation of this section
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    1905 W. Va. Acts 70, ch. 3, § 46.
    (General Publisher, 1905)
    The council shall have power to pass ordinances prohibiting the firing of guns, crackers, roman candles, sky-rockets, or any other fireworks, or the throwing of fire balls, or the firing of any other combination of gunpowder or other combustible or dangerous material within the city. . .
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    Act of Jan. 24, 1901, ch. 144, § 18, W.Va. Acts 314, 320-21.
    (General Publisher, 1901)
    to regulate the keeping of gun powder and other inflammable or dangerous substances; to provide in or near the city places of burial of the dead, and to regulate the interment therein…”
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    1901 W.Va. Acts 197, An Act to Amend and Re-Enact Sections Two and Thirteen of Chapter Sixty-Two of the Code of One Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety-Nine, ch. 89, § 1.
    (General Publisher, 1901)
    No person shall shoot in the public road at any time, nor when shooting on the lands of another shall discharge any firearms on any lawn, pleasure ground or orchard or other ground which is directly appurtenant to or within gunshot of an occupied dwelling house. The penalty for violating this section shall be a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars, or imprisonment not more than twenty days, or both, at the discretion of the court, and pay the cost of the prosecution.
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    Act of Feb 16, 1899, ch. 4, § 28, W.Va. Acts 14, 24.
    (General Publisher, 1899)
    to regulate the keeping of gun powder and other inflammable or dangerous substances; to provide for the regular building of houses or other structures
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    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 provided

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