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Item Open Access 1 Fed. Reg. 668, 674, National Park Service Rules and Regulations (1936) § 8(General Publisher, 1936)Prohibited firearms, explosives, traps, seines, and nets within the parks and monuments under federal control.Item Open Access 1 William B. Webb The Laws of the Corporation of the of Washington Digested and Arranged under Appropriate in Accordance with a Joint Resolution of the City 418 (1868), Act of Nov. 18, 1858.(General Publisher, 1858)It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to carry or have concealed about their persons any deadly or dangerous weapons, such as dagger, pistol, bowie knife, dirk knife, or dirk, colt, slungshot, or brass or other metal knuckles within the City of WashingtonItem Open Access §14, 14 Stat. 176 (1866)(General Publisher, 1868)Reaffirmed that freedmen were entited to “full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings concerning personal liberty [and] personal security . . . including the constitutional right to keep and bear arms.”Item Open Access 1899 U.S. Stat. 1270, ch. 429, sec. 117(General Publisher, 1899)Prohibited concealed carry of any revolver, pistol, other firearm, or knife, dirk, dagger, slung shot, metal knuckles, or any instrument which could inflict injury.Item Open Access 27 Stat. 116–17, ch. 159 (July 13, 1892).(General Publisher, 1892)Prohibited concealed carry of deadly or dangerous weapons in the District of Columbia such as daggers, air-guns, pistols, Bowie-knives, dirk-knives, dirks, blackjacks, razors, razor blades, sword-canes, slung-shots, brass knuckles, other metal knuckles. Also banned the sale of deadly weapons to minors. Vendors were required to be licensed.Item Open Access Act of May 8, 1792, 1 Stat. 271(General Publisher, 1792)The first Miltiia Act, used by Congress to mandate who must be enrolled within the militia.Item Open Access An Act To Control The Possession, Sale, Transfer And Use Of Pistols And Other Dangerous Weapons In The District Of Columbia, To Provide Penalties, To Prescribe Rules Of Evidence, And For Other Purposes, 47 Stat. 650 (1932), ch. 465, §§ 1, 8(General Publisher, 1932)Prohibited being armed with or having readily available any pistol or other firearm while committing a violent crime. In addition to being punished for the crime, will also be punished with imprisonment (various terms depending on the number of previous convictions). Additionally, Prohibited people convicted of violent crimes from owning or possessing a pistol. Prohibited carrying a concealed deadly or dangerous weapon. Regulates the sale and transfer of pistols.Item Open Access An Act to Prevent the Carrying of Concealed Weapons, Aug. 10, 1871, reprinted in Laws of the District of Columbia: 1871-1872, Part II, 33 (1872) (Dist. of Col., An Act to Prevent the Carrying of Concealed Weapons, 1871, ch. XXV)(General Publisher, 1871)Prohibited the carrying or having concealed “any deadly or dangerous weapons, such as daggers, air-guns, pistols, Bowie knives, dirk-knives, or dirks, razors, razor-blades, sword-canes, slungshots, or brass or other metal knuckles.” Punishable by forfeiture of the weapon and a fine of $20-50.Item Open Access An Act To Prohibit the Manufacture, Distribution, Storage, Use, and Possession in Time of War of Explosives, Proving Regulations for the Safe Manufacture, Distribution, Storage, Use, and Possession of the Same, and for Other Purposes, 40 Stat. 385 (1917), ch. 83(General Publisher, 1917)During war, prohibited the manufacture, distribution, storage, use, possession of powder, explosives, blasting supplies, or ingredients thereof in such a manner detrimental to the public safety.Item Open Access An Ordinance Prohibiting the Carrying of Firearms, Ordinances of the Corporation of Georgetown (1859).(General Publisher, 1859)it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to have about their persons any concealed deadly or dangerous weapons, such as daggers, pistols, bowie-knives, dirk-knives, colt, slung-shots, or brass or other metallic knuckles, within the limits of this CorporationItem Open Access An Ordinance to prevent shooting with guns, or other fire-arms. Georgetown, D.C. (1801).(General Publisher, 1801)[I]t shall not be lawful for any person to shoot with any gun, or other fire-arm, within any of the inhabited parts of Georgetown or its additions; and if any person shall, contrary to this ordinance, shoot any gun or other fire-arm, such person shall forfeit and pay five dollars for every offence, to be recovered as other fines are now by law recoverable, the one half to the use of the Corporation, and the other half to the use of the informer.Item Open Access Civil Rights Act of 1866 CHAP. XXXI.—An Act to protect all Persons in the United States in their Civil Rights, and furnish the Means of their Vindication.(General Publisher, 1866)Guaranteed "full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property, as is enjoyed by white citizens. Used by the Court to show language virtually identical to the Freedman's Bureau Act and covered the same rights.Item Open Access Civil Rights Act of 1871(General Publisher, 1871)Discussion of the law and amendments in Congress used by the Court in DC v Heller to further instruct on the "well-known consitutional provision guaranteeing the right of the citizen to 'keep and bear arms,' and provides that whoever shall take away, by force or violence, r by threats and intimidation, the arms and weapons which any person may have for his defense, shall be deemed guilty of larceny of the same."Item Open Access Cong. Globe, 39th Cong., 1st Sess., at 908-909(General Publisher, 1866)Decree by Generel D.E. Sickles pre-empting South Carolina's Black Codes: Guaranteed the constitutional rights of all loyal and well-disposed inhabitants to bear arms will not be infringed. Did not construe to sanction carrying concealed weapons, or the carrying of weapons by disorderly persons, vagrants, or disturbers of the peace.Item Open Access E. Wayne Carp's To Starve The Army At Pleasure: Continental Army Administration and American Political Culture, 1775-1783 (1984) at 66-67.(General Publisher, 1776)George Washington ordered the quartermaster general to stamp all Continental Army tools with the insignia "CXIII" to limit embezzlement of military equipment.Item Open Access Federal Firearms Act, 52 Stat. 1250-51 (1938)(General Publisher, 1938)Prohibited any person who has been convicted of a “crime of violence or is a fug[a]tive from justice” from receiving “any firearm or ammunition” which has been shipped in interstate commerce.Item Open Access Freedmen's Bureau Act on July 16, 1866, §14(General Publisher, 1866)Declared that full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings concerning personal liberty, security, acquisition, enjoyment, and disposition of estate, including the right to bear arms, shall be secured and enjoyed by all citizens.Without respect to race, color, or previous status as a slave.Item Open Access Letter from George Washington to Henry Knox (Nov. 30, 1780), in The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources 1745-1799 (John C. Fitzpatrick, ed.)(General Publisher, 1780)An order to repair and prove old arms before delivery.Item Open Access National Firearms Act (1934) 48 Stat. 1236(General Publisher, 1934)Heavily regulated the use of Machine Guns, Short Barrel Shotguns, Short Barrel Rifles, Suppressors, etc. Also established a $200 tax stamp for registration purposes.Item Open Access “Ordinances of the Corporation of Georgetown, 1801, October 24th, Sect. 2”, The Black Code of the District of Columbia in Force September 1st, 1848 50 (New York, 1848)(General Publisher, 1801)Prohibited “any servant or slave” from shooting any gun or other firearms.