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 This community includes research studies, historical documents, and scholarly works that explore Alabama's development, culture, and contributions to regional and national history.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 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 John W.A. Sanford, The Code of the City of Montgomery, Prepared in Pursuance of an Order of the City Council of Montgomery (1861) Pages 7-9 § 6(General Publisher, 1837)Granted the mayor and aldermen the power and authority to assess, levy, and collect annual taxes on pistol galleries.Item Open Access Clement Comer Clay, Digest of the Laws of Alabama: Containing all the Statutes of a Public and General Nature, in Force at the Close of the Session of The General Assembly, in February, 1843. To Which are Prefixed, the Declaration of Independence; the Constitution of the United States; the Act to Enable the People of Alabama to Form a Constitution and State Government, &c.; and the Constitution of the State of Alabama Page 413 § 8(General Publisher, 1843)Prohibited fighting or discharging a firearm or air-gun in any city, town, or miltiia muster, or public assembly. Violators fined not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not exceeding six months, or both at the discretion of the judge.Item Open Access 1841 Ala. Laws 148–49,(General Publisher, 1841)Prohibited the concealed carrying of “a bowie knife, or knife or instrument of the like kind or description, by whatever name called, dirk or any other deadly weapon, pistol or any species of firearms, or air gun,” unless the person is threatened with an attack or is traveling or “setting out on a journey.” Punished by a fine of $50-100.Item Open Access 1837 Ala. Acts 7, §§ 1, 2(General Publisher, 1837)Imposed tax of $100 on any person selling, giving, or disposing of any Bowie knife or Arkansas toothpick. Failure to pay the tax was subject to penalty of perjury.Item Open Access Digest of the Laws of the State of Ala. 391-92 (1833), sec. 7(General Publisher, 1833)Prohibited any “slave” from keeping or carrying any gun or ammunition without permission from a justice of the peace.Item Open Access A Digest of the Laws of the State of Alabama: Containing all the Statutes of a Public and General Nature, in Force at the Close of the Session of the General Assembly, in January, 1833. To Which are Prefixed, the Declaration of Independence; the Constitution of the United States; the Act to Enable the People of Alabama to Form a Constitution and State Government, &c.; and the Constitution of the State of Alabama. With an Appendix, and a Copious Index Page 201, Fire Hunting § 1 (1822)(General Publisher, 1822)Prohibited hunting with fire at night-time. Punishable by a fine of fifty dollars. Only construed to "embrace persons hunting deer with a gun and fire at night."Item Open Access Ala. Const. art. I, § 23(General Publisher, 1819)Declared every citizen has a right to bear arms in defence of himself and the State.Item Open Access Clement Comer Clay, Digest of the Laws of Alabama: Containing all the Statutes of a Public and General Nature, in Force at the Close of the Session of The General Assembly, in February, 1843. To Which are Prefixed, the Declaration of Independence; the Constitution of the United States; the Act to Enable the People of Alabama to Form a Constitution and State Government, &c.; and the Constitution of the State of Alabama Page 416 § 31(General Publisher, 1843)Prohibited assault and battery of another with a cowhide, stick, or whip while in possession of a pistol or other deadly weapon with the intent to intimidate another to prevent the person from defending himself. Violators are imprisoned not less than two nor more than twenty years.