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Item Open Access 1854 Wash. Sess. Laws 80, An Act Relative to Crimes and Punishments, and Proceedings in Criminal Cases, ch. 2, § 30.(General Publisher, 1854)Prohibited exhibiting, in a rude, angry, or threatening manner, a pistol, Bowie knife, or other dangerous weapon. Punishable by imprisonment up to 1 year and a fine up to $500.Item Open Access 1859 Wash. Sess. Laws 109, ch. 2, § 30(General Publisher, 1859)Prohibited exhibiting, in a rude, angry, or threatening manner, a pistol, Bowie knife, or other dangerous weapon. Punishable by imprisonment up to 1 year and a fine up to $500.Item Open Access 1862 Terr. of Wash. Stat. 284, ch. 2, § 30(General Publisher, 1862)Prohibited displaying any pistol, Bowie-knife, or other dangerous weapon to a crowd of two or more pesons in a rude, angry, or threatening manner.Item Open Access 1869 Wash. Sess. Laws 203–04, ch. 2, § 32(General Publisher, 1869)Prohibited exhibiting, in a rude, angry, or threatening manner, a pistol, Bowie knife, or other dangerous weapon. Punishable by imprisonment up to 1 year and a fine up to $500.Item Open Access 2 Ballinger’s Annotated Codes and Statutes of Washington: Showing All Statutes in Force, Including the Session Laws of 1897, at 1956, §§ 7082-7083 (1897)(General Publisher, 1897)7082: Every person who shall, in a manner likely to cause terror to the people, exhibit or flourish, in the streets of an incorporated cit or an unincorporated town, any dangerous weapon shall be guilty of a misdemeanor[.] 7083: Every person who shall, in a rude, angry, or threatening manner, in a crowd of two. or more persons, exhibit any pistol, bowie knife, or other dangeous weapon, shall, on conviction, be senteced to imprisonment not exceeding one year and a fine of less than $500.Item Open Access Albert R Heilig, Ordinances of the City of Tacoma, Washington Page, at 334, Ordinance no. 134, § 1 (1892)(General Publisher, 1892)All persons (except police officers as aforesaid) who shall draw, exhibit or attempt to use any deadly weapon upon, to or against another person, in said city with intent to do bodily injury to such person; and All persons (except peace officers as aforesaid and persons practicing at target shooting in a shooting gallery duly licensed) who shall, within the city limits, fire off or discharge any gun, pistol or fire arm of any kind, or bomb, shall be deemed and are disorderly persons, and guilty of a misdemeanor.Item Open Access An Ordinance Relating to Offenses and Disorderly Conduct and Repealing Ordinances no. 152, 178, & 471, Olympia City Council, Ordinance no. 523, § 3 (Washington, 1891).(General Publisher, 1891)That any person who shall draw, exhibit or attempt to use any pistol, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, cross-knuckles or knuckles of brass, lead or other metal, or other deadly or dangerous weapon, upon, to or against any person or persons in said city of Olympia, shall upon conviction thereof before a police justice of said city, be fined in any sum not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars, and in default of the payment thereof, shall be committed to the city Jail until such fine and costs are paid, not to exceed sixty days.Item Open Access An Ordinance Relating to Offenses and Disorderly Conduct, Olympia City Council, Ordinance No. 152, § 2 (Washington, 1882).(General Publisher, 1882)That any persons who shall draw exhibit or attempt to use any deadly weapon within the corporate limits of the City of Olympia, upon, to or against another person, shall be liable to a fine of not more than fifty nor less than twenty-five dollars.Item Open Access Ch. 249, Subchapter 8—Crimes against the Public Peace, §§ 307-308—Aiming or Discharging Firearms & Use of Firearms by Minor, in Session Laws of the State of Washington Eleventh Session (1909).(General Publisher, 1909)Every person who shall aim any gun, pistol, revolver or other firearm, whether loaded or not, at or towards any human being, or who shall wilfully discharge any firearm, air gun or other weapon, or throw any deadly missile in a public place, or in any place where any person might be endangered thereby, although no injury result, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.No minor under the age of fourteen years shall handle or have in his possession or under his control, except while accompanied by or under the immediate charge of his parent or guardian, any firearm of any kind for hunting or target practice or for other purposes. Every person violating any of the foregoing provisions, or aiding or knowingly permitting any such minor to violate the same, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor."Item Open Access Ordinance no. 11—An Ordinance Concerning Offenses and Disorderly Conduct, § 7, Ilwaco Town Council (1891) (Washington).(General Publisher, 1891)Any person or persons who shall draw any species of firearms or any dirk, dagger or knife or any other dangerous or deadly weapon upon the person of another within the corporate limits of the Town of Ilwaco, shall upon conviction thereof before the Police Court be fined not less than Twenty ($20) dollars nor more than One Hundred ($100)2 dollars or by imprisonment in the Town jail not less than Ten (10) days nor more than Twentyy (20) days or both at the discretion of the Court...Item Open Access Ordinance No. 520, § 2, Vancouver City Council, (1910) (Vancouver, Washington).(General Publisher, 1910)Any person or persons who shall draw any species of fire arms or any dagger, dirk or knife or any other deadly or dangerous weapon upon the person of another or shall conceal upon his person any of the above weapons or any dangerous weapon, excepting a peace officer in the discharge of his official duties, within the limits of the City of Vancouver, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor."Item Open Access Richard A. Ballinger (Editor), Ballinger’s Annotated Codes and Statutes of Washington, Showing All Statutes in Force, Including the Session Laws of 1897, at 1956, § 7082 (Vol. 2, 1897)(General Publisher, 1881)Prohibited exhibiting a dangerous weapon in a manner likely to cause terror. Punishable by fine up to $25.Item Open Access William Lair Hill, Ballinger’s Annotated Codes and Statutes of Washington, Showing All Statutes in Force, Including the Session Laws of 1897, at 1956 (Vol. 2, 1897)(General Publisher, 1881)Prohibited exhibiting a dangerous weapon in a manner likely to cause terror. Punishable by fine up to $25.