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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 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 Offenses Against Public Safety, Chapter 6, §§ 375-376(General Publisher, 1885)§375 prohibited discharging a gun, pistol, or other fire-arm within the corporate limits of Tuscaloosa. Violators fined not exceeding twenty-five dollars. §376 prohibited shooting gravel or other substance with a. gravel-shooter, sling-shot, or other implement of like kind within the city. Violators fined not exceeding five dollars.Item Open Access Offenses Against Public Safety, Chapter 6, § 420(General Publisher, 1885)Prohibited carrying concealed any brass knuckles, slung-shot, or other weapon of like kind, or carries a rifle, shot gun walking cane. Violators fined not exceeding one hundred dollars, and may be imprisoned, or put to hard labor not exceeding sixty days.Item Open Access Offenses Against Public Safety, Chapter 6, § 387(General Publisher, 1885)Prohibited keeping more than twenty-five pounds of gun powder or other explosive. Also prohibited sale of gun powder by artifical light.Item Open Access Offenses Against Public Safety, Chapter 6, § 380(General Publisher, 1885)Prohibited carrying concealed a Bowie-knife, any other knife of like kind, dirk, pistol, other fire-arms of like kind. Violators fined not exceeding fifty dollars and possibly sentenced to hard labor not exeeding sixty days.Item Open Access A Revised Code of Ordinances of the City of Tuscaloosa (1885) Using fire-arms while fighting in a public place, § 330(General Publisher, 1885)SEC. 636. Any minor having in his possession, or using any pistol of any kind described in section 635, shall, on conviction, be fined not less than one nor more than one hundred dollars.Item Open Access Penal Code, ch. 43, §§ 635-636 (forbidding "toy guns" for minors), MONTGOMERY, CODE OF ORDINANCES 213, 240 (1888 Brown Printing Co.) (Montgomery, Alabama).(General Publisher, 1888)Any person who shall sell, give or deliver to any minor any small pistol, or any pistol known as a toy pistol, in which powder and ball can be used, or a metallic cartridge containing a leaden ball, which can be exploded, shall, on conviction, be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars.Item Open Access Penal Code, ch. 43, §§ 549-550, MONTGOMERY, CODE OF ORDINANCES 213, 223-29 (1888 Brown Printing Co.) (Montgomery, Alabama).(General Publisher, 1888)Any person who carries or causes to be carried, any powder upon any vehicle, without having the same so arranged as effectually to cover up the packages or kegs, and guard them from public view and from accident from fire, must, on conviction, be fined not less than one nor more than one hundred dollars.Any person who receives or delivers any powder or matches concealed in any manner and purporting to be any other article or commodity, must, on conviction, be fined not less than one nor more than one hundred dollars.