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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 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.Item Open Access 1907 Tenn. Pub. Acts 208, ch. 74, § 2, pt. 11.(General Publisher, 1907)[T]o regulate the discharging, firing, shooting, or carrying of guns, pistols, and fireworks in the town; to regulate or prohibit the selling within the limits of the town fireworks of any kind whatever.Item Open Access 1903 Tenn. Pub. Acts 376-77, ch. 169, § 6.(General Publisher, 1903)[N]o person or persons shall . . . for the purpose of taking or destroying birds or animals not protected by this Act, use any swivel or punt gun, or gun other than a gun held in the hands and fired from the shoulder, and of the gauge not larger than No. 8[.]Item Open Access 1901 Tenn. Pub. Acts. 406, An Act to Incorporate the Town of Carthage, in Smith County, Tennessee, and Conferring and Defining the Corporate Powers Thereof, ch. 186, § 10.(General Publisher, 1901)Be it further enacted, That the Council shall have power by ordinance to . . . regulate the storage of gunpowder and other explosives, and noisome or offensive substances. . .Item Open Access An Act to Incorporate the Town of Dresden, Tennessee, and to Define Its Rights and Powers, ch. 202, § 3, pt. 16, 1901 Tenn. Pub. Acts 435, 437.(General Publisher, 1901)To regulate and suppress the shooting of guns and pistols and other firearms in the corporate limits."