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 This community includes research studies, historical documents, and scholarly works that explore Alabama's development, culture, and contributions to regional and national history.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 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 ACTS OF THE FIFTH BIENNIAL SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF ALABAMA, HELD IN THE CITY OF MONTGOMERY, COMMENCING ON THE SECOND MONDAY IN NOVEMBER, 1855, at 17 (1856).(General Publisher, 1856)Anyone who shall sell or give or lend to male minors a Bowie knife, or knife or instrument of like kind, or air gun or pistol shall be fined not less than three hundred dollars, but not more than one thousand dollars.Item Open Access 1856 Ala. Acts 17, To Amend the Criminal Law, § 1(General Publisher, 1856)That anyone who shall sell or give or lend, to any male minor, a bowie knife, or knife or instrument of the like kind or description, by whatever name called, or air gun or pistol, shall, on conviction be fined not less than three hundred, nor more than one thousand dollars.Item Open Access Ala. Code §3274 (1852)(General Publisher, 1852)Prohibited the concealed carry of a pistol, or any other firearms, while not being theatened or having good reason to believe attack is imminent. §3273 also prohibited the conceal carry of Bowie-knives, other similar knives, and air guns. Violators fined not less than fifty, but no more than three hundred dollars.Item Open Access 1851-52 Ala. 3, ch. 1(General Publisher, 1851)Tax of $2 on “every bowie knife or revolving pistol.”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 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.Item Open Access 1841 Ala. Acts 148 - 49, Of Miscellaneous Offences, ch. 7, § 4(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.