1864

1864 Mont. Laws 355, An Act to Prevent the Carrying of Concealed Deadly Weapons in the Cities and Towns of This Territory, § 1.

Montana

If any person shall within any city, town, or village in this territory, whether the same is incorporated or not, carry concealed upon his or her person any pistol, bowie-knife, dagger, or other deadly weapon, shall, on conviction thereof before any justice of the peace of the proper county, be fined in any sum not less than twenty five dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars.
Carrying Weapons

1872

Laws, Memorials, and Resolutions, of the Territory of Montana, Passed at the Seventh Session of the Legislative Assembly, Begun at Virginia City, Monday, December 4, 1871, and Concluded January 12, 1872. To Which Are Prefixed the Constitution of the United States, and the Acts Organizing the Territory Page 279, Image 297 (1872) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

Montana

[Laws] of Montana Territory, § 59. If any person shall assault and beat another with a cowhide, stick, or whip, having at the time in his possession a pistol or other deadly weapon, with an attempt to intimidate and prevent the person assaulted from defending himself, such person shall, on conviction thereof, be imprisoned in the territorial prison not less than one nor more than ten years.
Sentence Enhancement for Use of Weapon

1873

1873 Mont. Laws 46, An Act to Prevent Parties from Shooting within the Limits of Towns and Private Enclosures, § 1.

Montana

That it shall be unlawful for any person to fire any gun, pistol or any fire-arm, of whatever description, within the limits of any town, city, or village in this territory, or within the limits of any private enclosure which shall contain a dwelling house.
Firing Weapons

1879

1879 Mont. Laws 359, Offences against the Lives and Persons of Individuals, ch. 4, § 23.

Montana

If any person shall, by previous appointment or agreement, fight a duel with a rifle, shot-gun, pistol, bowie-knife, dirk, small-sword, back-sword, or other dangerous weapon, and in so doing shall kill his antagonist, or any person or persons, or shall inflict such wound as that the party or parties injured shall die thereof within one year thereafter, every such offender shall be deemed guilty of murder in the first degree, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished accordingly [death by hanging].
Dueling

1885

1885 Mont. Laws 74, Deadly Weapons, An Act to Amend § 62 of Chapter IV of the Fourth Division of the Revised Statutes, § 62-63.

Montana

Every person in this territory having, carrying, or procuring from another person, any dirk, dirk-knife, sword, sword-cane, pistol, gun, or other deadly weapon, who shall in the presence of one or more persons, draw or exhibit any of said deadly weapons in a rude or angry or threatening manner, not in necessary self defense, or who shall in any manner unlawfully use the same in any fight or quarrel, the person or persons so offending, upon conviction thereof in any criminal court in any county in this territory shall be fined in any sum not less than ten dollars nor …
Brandishing

1887

1887 Mont. Laws 549, Criminal Laws, Offences against Public Morality, Health, and Police, ch. 10, § 174.

Montana

[I]f any person shall have upon him or her any pistol, gun, knife, dirk-knife, bludgeon, or other offensive weapon, with intent to assault any person, every such person, on conviction, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail not more than three months.
Sentence Enhancement for Use of Weapon

1887

1887 Mont. Laws 68, Extraordinary Session, An Act to Amend an Act Entitled An Act Concerning the Storage of Gunpowder, § 2.

Montana

No person, company, or corporation shall store, deposit or keep within the limits of any city, town or village, gunpowder, nitroglycerine, guncotton, dynamite, and other dangerous or powerful explosives exceeding fifty pounds, and no magazine or storehouse where such explosives are stored or kept, shall hereafter be located nearer than one-half mile from such city, town or village; Provided, That this act shall not be construed to prevent the keeping of a reasonable supply of powder in any safe place at a mine.
Storage

1888

Compiled Statutes of Montana, Enacted at the Regular Session of the Fifteenth Legislative Assembly of Montana Embracing the Laws of a General and Permanent Nature, in Force at the Expiration of the Fifteenth Regular Session of the Legislative Assembly. Also Special Laws Enacted at Said Session, to Which are Prefixed the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States and Amendments Thereto, Provisions of the Revised Statutes of the United States Common to All Territories, and Those Particularly Relating to Montana, and Session Laws of the United States Relating to Montana Enacted Subsequent to the Revision Page 513, Image 525 (1888) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

Montana

An Act of March, 5, 1883, § 66. It shall be unlawful for any person within the limits of any city, town or village in this territory, to bear concealed upon his person any dirk, dagger, pistol, revolver, or other deadly weapon. Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars. This section shall not apply to peace officers in the discharge of their official duties.
Carrying Weapons