Alabama
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The Alabama Community serves as a repository for historical, academic, and cultural materials related to the state of Alabama. This community includes research studies, historical documents, and scholarly works that explore Alabama's development, culture, and contributions to regional and national history.
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Item Open Access Harry Toulmin, A Digest of the Laws of the State of Alabama . . . 627 (1823)(General Publisher, 1805)Prohibited any “slave” from keeping or carrying any gun, powder, shot, club, weapon, or ammunition.Item Open Access 1898-99 Ala. Laws 1046, ch. 549(General Publisher, 1899)Granted the town the authority to regulate, tax, and license dealers in Pistols, pistol cartridges, Bowie knives, and dirk knives. Licenses shall not exceed fifty dollars.Item Open Access 1878–1879 Ala. Laws 437, ch. 314, § 14(General Publisher, 1878)Authorized Uniontown to license dealers of pistols, Bowie knives, and dirk knives.Item Open Access Selma Code of the City, ch. 7, § 275 (1862)(General Publisher, 1862)Any person who carries concealed about his person a loaded pistol or other kind of firearm, a bowie knife, dagger, or knife of like kind, unless threatened with, or having reason to apprehend an attack, or being upon or about to start upon a journey, shall upon conviction be fined not less than ten dollars, one half of which goes to the informer, when collected.”Item Open Access Selma Code of the City, ch. 7, § 244(General Publisher, 1862)Any person who shall commit an assault or assault and battery with firearms or other deadly weapon, shall on conviction be fined not less than twenty-five dollars.”Item Open Access Alexander McKinstry, The Code of Ordinances of the City of Mobile, with the Charter, and an Appendix (1859) Page 118(General Publisher, 1859)Prohibited the discharge of any gun, pistol, fowling-piece, or fire-arm.Item Open Access 1848 Ala. Acts 121–22, An Act To Prevent the Storage of Gun-powder in Larger Quantities Than One Hundred Pounds Within the City of Mobile, § 1(General Publisher, 1848)Prohibited any person or persons from receiving, keeping, or storing in any building within three miles of the Mobile River or Bay, gun-powder, gun-cotton, or other explosive material in larger quantities than one hundred pounds.Item Open Access 1892 Ala. Laws 292, ch. 140(General Publisher, 1892)Approved the town of Demopolis to require licensing but also placed a maximum license fee of one hundred dollars on dealers of pistols, pistol cartridges, bowie knives, dirk knives.Gun shops, or gun repair shops capped at five dollars.Item Open Access 1890 Ala. Laws 1317, ch. 573(General Publisher, 1890)Approved the town of Decatur to require licensing but also placed a maximum license fee of one hundred dollars on dealers of pistols, pistol cartridges, bowie knives, dirk knives.Gun shops, or gun repair shops capped at ten dollars.Item Open Access 1894 Ala. Laws 616, ch. 345(General Publisher, 1894)Approved the town of Columbia to require licensing but also placed a maximum license fee of one hundred dollars on dealers of pistols, pistol cartridges, bowie knives, dirk knives.Gun shops, or gun repair shops capped at five dollars.