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The Tennessee Repository serves for historical, academic, and cultural materials related to the state of Tennessee. This repository includes research studies, historical documents, and scholarly works that explore Tennessee's development, culture, and contributions to regional and national history.
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Item Open Access Tenn. Pub. Acts 327, An Act To Repeal The Charter Of The Town Of Waverly, In Humphreys county, And to Incorporate Said Town And Define Its Rights, Powers, etc., §10(General Publisher, 1899)Granted the town the authority to regulate the manufactories dangerous in causing or producing fires. Also allowed the town to prevent and suppress the sale of firearms and the carrying of concealed weapons.Item Open Access 1911 Tenn. Priv. Acts 1431, A Bill to Be Entitled "An Act to Amend the Charter of the City of Knoxville, Tenn. . . . ," ch. 498, § 45.(General Publisher, 1911)That no officer of Election or Commissioner of Election shall be in, at, or near any ballot box or voting precinct during any election or the canvassing of the returns armed with pistol, gun, or other deadly weapon[.]Item Open Access Claude Waller, Digest of the Ordinances of the City of Nashville, to Which are Prefixed the State Laws Incorporating, and Relating to, the City, with an Appendix Containing Various Grants and Franchises, at 364-65 (1893), Ordinances of the City of Nashville, § 738(General Publisher, 1893)Prohibited the carrying of a pistol, Bowie knife, dirk knife, slungshot, brass knucks, or other deadly weapon. Punishable by fine of $10-50 for a first offense and $50 for subsequent offenses.Item Open Access Claude Waller, Digest of the Ordinances of the City of Nashville, to Which are Prefixed the State Laws Incorporating, and Relating to, the City, with an Appendix Containing Various Grants and Franchises Page 346-347, Image 354-355, § 652 (1893)(General Publisher, 1893)If any person or persons shall fire any gun or pistol, cast, throw or fire any squib, rocket, cracker, or other combustible fire-works within the limits of the corporation, every such person, for every such offense, shall forfeit and pay the sum of five dollarsItem Open Access William K. McAlister (Editor), Ordinances of the City of Nashville, to Which are Prefixed the State Laws Chartering and Relating to the City, with an Appendix, 340–41 (1881), ch. 108, § 1(General Publisher, 1881)Prohibited the carrying of pistol, Bowie knife, dirk, slungshot, brass knuckles, or other deadly weapon. Punishable by fine of $10-50 for a first offense and $50 for subsequent offenses.Item Open Access NASHVILLE, TN, ORDINANCES, pt. 3, tit. 12, ch. 108, §§ 1-6 at 340, 340-41 (Marshall & Bruce 1881).(General Publisher, 1873)That every person found carrying a pistol, bowie-knife, dirk-knife, slung-shot, brass knucks or other deadly weapon, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction of such first offense, shall be fined form ten to fifty dollars, at the discretion of the court, but upon conviction of every such subsequent offense, shall be fined fifty dollars; Provided, however, that no ordinary pocket knife and common walking-canes shall be construed to be deadly weapons.Item Open Access 1931 Tenn. Priv. Acts 1089, vol. 2, An Act to Be Entitled, "An Act to Incorporate the City of Murfreesboro in Rutherford County, Tennessee . . . ," ch. 429, art. 3, § 4, pt. 46.(General Publisher, 1931)To regulate, restrain, and prevent the carrying on of manufactories dangerous in causing or producing fires; and to regulate and suppress the sale of firearms, and to prevent and suppress the selling, carrying, using or firing of pistols, rifles, guns, bowie knives, dirks, firearms, or other deadly weapons.Item Open Access 1929 Tenn. Priv. Acts 2018, vol. 2, An Act to Amend . . . an Act Entitled an Act to Incorporate the Town of Lebanon in the County of Wilson, State of Tennessee . . . , ch. 685, art. 2, § 1, pt. 38.(General Publisher, 1929)[T]o regulate or prevent the discharging, firing, shooting, or carrying of guns, pistols and fireworks in the City.Item Open Access 1925 Tenn. Priv. Acts 298, vol. 1, An Act to Create and Incorporate the City of Brownsville, in Haywood County, Tennessee . . . , ch. 92, § 25, pt. 21.(General Publisher, 1925)To regulate the storage and transportation of illuminating oil and gunpowder and other high explosives, and to regulate and prohibit the use of firearms.Item Open Access Laws regulating what groups may act as military organizations, Ch. 400, §§ 91-92, in, Acts of the State of Tennessee (1909).(General Publisher, 1909)"Sec. 91. Be it further enacted, That no body of men, except the organized militia, the troops of the United States, and organizations of Confederate veterans, Grand Army of the Republic, and Spanish-American War veterans, shall maintain an armory or associate together at any time as a company or organization for drill or parade with firearms, and the latter organization can have such privileges only with the consent of the Governor of this State; provided, that associations wholly composed of soldiers honorably discharged from the service of the United States may parade in public with arms upon the reception of any organizations of soldiers returning from said service and for escort duty at the burial of deceased soldiers, with the written permission of the Mayor and Aldermen of the city or the Sheriff of the county. Students in educational institutions where military science is a prescribed part of the course of instruction may, with the consent of the Governor, drill and parade with firearms in public.
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