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 This community includes research studies, historical documents, and scholarly works that explore Alabama's development, culture, and contributions to regional and national history.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 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 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.