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Item Open Access 1858 Neb. Laws 69, ch.1, § 135(General Publisher, 1858)Prohibited the carrying of a pistol, gun, knife, dirk, bludgeon or other offensive weapon with the intent to assault a person. Punishable by fine up to $100.Item Open Access 1867 Neb. Laws 68, An Act to Incorporate Nebraska City, § 25.(General Publisher, 1867)The city council shall regulate the keeping and sale of gun-powder within the city[.]Item Open Access 1869 Neb. Laws 53, An Act To Incorporate Cities Of The First Class In The State Of Nebraska, §47(General Publisher, 1869)Allowed the city council to license vendors of gunpowder.Item Open Access Discharging Firearms & Carrying Concealed Weapons, Ch. 28, § 6, in Revised Ordinances of the City of Omaha (1872)(General Publisher, 1872)If any person shall carry any concealed weapon or weapons, or have concealed upon or about his or her person any revolver, pistol, slung shot, bowie knife, or other deadly weapon or instrument, such person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding twenty dollars.Item Open Access Discharging Firearms & Carrying Concealed Weapons, Ch. 28, § 5, in Revised Ordinances of the City of Omaha (1872)(General Publisher, 1872)If any person shall unnecessarily discharge any fire-arms, or shoot off any fire-crackers, or other fire-works, or shall light or throw any fire-ball or crackers, in said city [i.e., Omaha], without permission of the Mayor, such person so doing, shall, on conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not exceeding twenty dollars.Item Open Access Gilbert B. Colfield, Laws, Ordinances and Rules of Nebraska City, Otoe County, Nebraska, at 36, Ordinance No. 7, An Ordinance Prohibiting the Carrying of Fire Arms and Concealed Weapons, § 1 (1872)(General Publisher, 1873)That it shall be, and it is hereby declared to be unlawful for any person to carry, openly or concealed, any musket, rifle, shot gun, pistol, sabre, sword, bowie knife, dirk, sword cane, billy slung shot, brass or other metallic knuckles, or any other dangerous or deadly weapons, within the corporate limits of Nebraska CityItem Open Access 1873 Neb. Laws 724, ch. 58, § 25(General Publisher, 1873)Prohibited the conceal carry of a pistol, Bowie-knife, dirk, or any other dangerous weapon. First offense punished with a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than thirty days. Second offense fined not exceeding five hundred dollars, or jailed not exceeding three months, or both.Item Open Access Ordinance No. 51: An Ordinance to Establish a Criminal Code, THE GLOBE JOURNAL, Jun. 5, 1880, at 2 (Falls City, Nebraska) § 6(General Publisher, 1880)It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to maliciously or wilfully disturb the peace by loud or unusual noises, or by tumultuous and officious carriage, or by menacing or threatening, or traducing, or assaulting, or striking, or wounding, or challenging to fight, or fighting another or others, or by quarrelling or rioting, or discharging fire-arms, or by ringing bells or beating upon or otherwise producing loud and disagreeable noises from metalic or other substances...Item Open Access Ordinance No. 51: An Ordinance to Establish a Criminal Code, THE GLOBE JOURNAL, Jun. 5, 1880, at 2 (Falls City, Nebraska) § 11(General Publisher, 1880)Whoever shall carry a weapon, or weapons, concealed on or about his person, such as a pistol, bowie knife, dirk, or any other dangerous weapon, shall be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisoned in jail not more than thirty daysItem Open Access 1881 Neb. Comp. Stat. 666, pt. 3, ch. 5, § 25(General Publisher, 1881)Prohibited the carry of Bowie-knives, dirks, or any other dangerous weapon. First offense punishable by fine not exceeding one hundredd dollars or imprisonment not less than thirty days. Second offense punished by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or imprisoned not exceeding three months or both.Item Open Access 1887 Neb. Laws 502-03, ch. 50, §§ 54-55(General Publisher, 1887)It shall not be lawful for any body of men whatever, other than the regular organized volunteer militia of this state, and the troops of the United States to associate themselves together as a military company or organization, or to drill or to parade with arms in any city or town in this state without the license of the governor thereof which license may at any time be revokedItem Open Access W. J. Connell, The Revised Ordinances of the City of Omaha, Nebraska, Embracing All Ordinances of a General Nature in Force April 1, 1890, Together with the Charter for Metropolitan Cities, the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Nebraska, at 344, § 10 (1890)(General Publisher, 1890)Prohibited the carrying of a concealed pistol or revolver, colt, billy, slungshot, brass knuckles or knuckles of lead, dirk, dagger, or any knife resembling a Bowie knife, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon. Punishable by fine up to $100.Item Open Access 1893 Neb. Laws 393, ch. 47, § 3.(General Publisher, 1893)It shall also be unlawful for any person, at any time, by the aid or use of any swivel, punt gun, big gun (so called), or any other than the common shoulder gun; or by the aid or use of any punt boat, or sneak boat used for carrying such gun, to catch, kill, wound, or destroy, or to pursue after with intent to catch, kill, wound or destroy upon any of the waters, bays, rivers, marshes, mud flats, or any cover to which wild fowl resort within state of Nebraska, any wild goose, wood duck, teal, canvas-back, bluebill, or other wild duck, or to destroy or disturb the eggs of any of the birds above namedItem Open Access 1893 Neb. Cons. Stat. 1231, pt. 1, ch. 5, § 5604.(General Publisher, 1893)Prohibited the concealed carry of a pistol; Bowie-knife, dirk, or any other dangerous weapon. Vilators not fined on first offense exceeding one hundred dollars or imprisoned more than thirty days. Second offense not exceeding one hundred dollars or three months imprisonment.Item Open Access Neb. Laws 233, Statutes Relating To The government of The City of Lincoln, art. 25, § 17(General Publisher, 1895)Prohibited the ability to keep, sell, or give away gun powder or gun cotton without the signed permission of the Fire Chiefs and the City Clerk. Penalty of twenty-five dollars.Item Open Access LINCOLN, NEB., REVISED ORDINANCES, pt. 2, ch. 14, art. 26, §§ 1,3-4 (State Journal Company, Printers 1895).(General Publisher, 1895)No person, except an officer of the law in the discharge of his duty, shall fire or discharge any gun, pistol, fowling-piece, or other fire-arm, within the corporate limits of the city of Lincoln. Also prohibited the carry and discharge of toy guns.Item Open Access 1895 Neb. Laws 209–10, art. 16, § 1(General Publisher, 1895)Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, revolver, dirk, Bowie-knife, billy, sling-shot, metal knuckles, or other dangerous or deadly weapons.Item Open Access LINCOLN, NEB., REVISED ORDINANCES, pt. 2, ch. 14, art. 16, §§ 1-8 (State Journal Company, Printers 1895).(General Publisher, 1895)It shall be unlawful for any person within said city to carry about the person any concealed pistol, revolver, dirk, bowie knife, billy, sling-shot, metal knuckles, or other dangerous or deadly weapons of any kind, excepting only officers of the law in the discharge of their duties. Also granted the mayor the power to grant licensesItem Open Access LINCOLN, NEB., REVISED ORDINANCES, pt. 2, ch. 14, art. 26, § 8 (State Journal Company, Printers 1895).(General Publisher, 1895)Prohibited discharging any cannon or artillery in any street, avenue, alley, park, or place within the limits of the city. Violators fined twenty-five dollars.Item Open Access LINCOLN, NEB., REVISED ORDINANCES, pt. 2, ch. 14, art. 26, § 5 (State Journal Company, Printers 1895).(General Publisher, 1895)It shall be unlawful for any parent, guardian, or other person having the care and custody of any minor, to purchase for or give to any such minor or knowingly to permit any such minor to have any toy pistol, toy gun, or other toy arm or arms, or sling shot, out of which any leaden or other dangerous missiles may be discharged.