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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 This community includes research studies, historical documents, and scholarly works that explore Alabama's development, culture, and contributions to regional and national history.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 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 J. M. Falkner, The Code of Ordinances of the City Council of Montgomery [Alabama] (1879), § 428(General Publisher, 1879)Prohibited carrying of a concealed Bowie knife, pistol, air gun, slungshot, brass knuckles, or other deadly or dangerous weapon. Punishable by a fine of $1-100.Item Open Access Wade Keyes, The Code of Alabama, 1876: with References to the Decisions of the Supreme Court of the State upon the Construction of the Statutes; and in Which the General and Permanent Acts of the Session of 1876-7 have been Incorporated (1877) Page 989 § 4809(General Publisher, 1877)Indictments of concealed carry are sufficiently charged as concealed carry of a pistol, other firearm, Bowie-knife, or other knife or instrument of like description. Also required the defendant to bear the burden of proving a "legal excuse."Item Open Access Wade Keyes, The Code of Alabama, 1876: with References to the Decisions of the Supreme Court of the State upon the Construction of the Statutes; and in Which the General and Permanent Acts of the Session of 1876-7 have been Incorporated (1877) Page 882 § 4109(General Publisher, 1877)Prohibited concealed carry of a Bowie knife, any other knife or instrument of like kind or description, pistol, firearms of any other kind of description, or air gun. Violators fined not less than fifty nor more than three hundred dollars or imprisoned in county jail, or sentenced to hard labor not more than six months.Item Open Access Wade Keyes, The Code of Alabama, 1876, ch. 3, § 4109(General Publisher, 1877)Prohibited the concealed carrying of any Bowie knife, or any other knife of like kind or description, pistol, air gun, slungshot, brass knuckles, or other deadly or dangerous weapon, unless the person was threatened with, or had good reason to apprehend, an attack, or “while traveling, or setting out on a journey.” Punishable by fine of $50-300 and imprisonment of not more than 6 months.Item Open Access Wade Keyes, The Code of Alabama, 1876 : with References to the Decisions of the Supreme Court of the State upon the Construction of the Statutes; and in Which the General and Permenent Acts of the Session of 1876-7 have been Incorporated (1877) Page 901 § 4229(General Publisher, 1877)Prohibited discharging a gun or any other kind of fire-arms along or across any public road. Violators fined not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars.Item Open Access Wade Keyes, The Code of Alabama, 1876, ch. 6, § 4230(General Publisher, 1876)Prohibited the sale, giving, or lending of any pistol, Bowie knife, or “like knife” to any boy under the age of 18.Item Open Access Wade Keyes, The Code of Alabama, 1876, ch. 3, § 4809(General Publisher, 1876)Prohibited the concealed carrying of any Bowie knife, or any other knife of like kind or description, pistol, air gun, slungshot, brass knuckles, or other deadly or dangerous weapon, unless the person was threatened with, or had good reason to apprehend, an attack, or “while traveling, or setting out on a journey.” Punishable by fine of $50-300 and imprisonment of not more than 6 months.Item Open Access Wade Keyes, The Code of Alabama, 1876 : with References to the Decisions of the Supreme Court of the State upon the Construction of the Statutes; and in Which the General and Permanent Acts of the Session of 1876-7 have been Incorporated (1877) Page 914 § 4315(General Publisher, 1876)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 imprisoned not less than two nor more than twenty years.Item Open Access Wade Keyes (Editor), Code of Alabama 1876 882 (1877), ch. 3, § 4109(General Publisher, 1876)Prohibited the carrying of a Bowie knife, pistol, or air gun, or any other weapon of “like kind or description,” unless threatened with or having good cause to fear an attack or while traveling or setting out on a journey. Punishable by a fine of $50-300 and imprisonment or hard labor for no more than 6 months.