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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 §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 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 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 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 The Compiled Statutes in Force in the District of Columbia including the Acts of the Second Session of the Congress 1887-'89, William Stone Albert & Benjamin G. comps., 178 1894 (Act of July 20, 1871)(General Publisher, 1871)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 daggers, air-guns, pistols, bowie-knives, dirk- knives, or dirks, razors, razor-blades, sword-canes, slung-shots, or brass or other metal knuckles, within the District of Columbia;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 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 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 Washington