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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 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 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 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 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 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 1897 Neb. Laws 162, ch. 14, § 24, pt. 38.(General Publisher, 1897)To . . . regulate and prevent the transportation of gun powder or other explosives or combustible articles, tar, pitch, rosin, coal, oil, benzine [sic], turpentine, hemp, cotton, nitroglycerine, dynamite, petroleum, or any other productions thereof and other materials of like nature[.]Item Open Access 1901 Neb. Laws 141, ch. 16, § 129, pt. 55.(General Publisher, 1901)to prevent use of fire arms, rockets, powder, fire works, or other dangerous and combustible material; carrying of concealed weapons; to arrest, punish, fine or set at work on streets or elsewhere vagrants and persons found without visible means of support, or legitimate business; to regulate and prevent the transportation of gun powderItem Open Access 1901 Neb. Laws 372, art. II, ch. 36, § 4, pt. 8.(General Publisher, 1901)No game shall be pursued, taken, wounded or killed in the night, nor with a steel or hard pointed bullet, nor with any weapon other than an ordinary shoulder gun or pistolItem Open Access 1901 Neb.Laws 154, ch. 17, § 33.(General Publisher, 1901)To regulate or prohibit the transportation and keeping of gun powder, oils or other combustible and explosive articles.Item Open Access 1907 Neb. Laws 498-99, ch. 165, § 1.(General Publisher, 1907)Any person who brakes [sic] and enters, either by day or by night, any building, whether inhabited or not, and opens or attempts to open any vault, safe or other secure place, by the use of nitroglycerine, dynamite, gunpowder, or any other explosive, with intent to steal or injure the property of another, shall be deemed guilty of burglary with explosives.Item Open Access 1929 Neb. Laws 673–74, ch. 190, §§ 1–2(General Publisher, 1929)Prohibited selling or otherwise disposing of a machine gun. Punishable by fine of $1,000-$10,000. Also Prohibited transporting or possessing a machine gun. Punishable by imprisonment for 1-10 years.Item Open Access Compiled Ordinances of the City of Fairfield, Clay County, Nebraska, at 34 (1899), Ordinance No. 20, An Ordinance to Prohibit the Carrying of Concealed Weapons and Fixing a Penalty for the violations of the same. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Council of the City of Fairfield, Nebraska: § 1(General Publisher, 1899)Prohibited the carrying of a concealed pistol, revolver, dirk, Bowie knife, billy, slingshot, metal knuckles, or other dangerous or deadly weapons. Punishable by forfeiture and “shall be so adjudged.”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 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 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 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 licenses