1639

1639 Va. Acts 226, Acts of January 6th, 1639, Act X, available at https://archive.org/details/statutesatlargeb01virg

Virginia

All persons except negroes to be provided with arms and ammunition or be fined at pleasure of the Governor and Council.
Race and Slavery Based

1792

Collection of All Such Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, of a Public and Permanent Nature, as Are Now in Force; with a New and Complete Index. To Which are Prefixed the Declaration of Rights, and Constitution, or Form of Government Page 187, Image 195 (1803) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

Virginia

[An Act to Reduce into one, the Several Acts Concerning Slaves, Free Negroes, and Mulattoes (1792),] § 8. No negro or mulatto whatsoever shall keep or carry any gun, powder, shot, club, or other weapon whatsoever, offensive or defensive, but all and every gun, weapon, and ammunition found in the possession or custody of any negro or mulatto, may be seized by any person, and upon due proof thereof made before any Justice of the Peace of the County or Corporation where such seizure shall be, shall by his order be forfeited to the seizor for his own use ; …
Race and Slavery Based

1805

1805 Va. Acts 51, An Act Concerning Free Negroes and Mulatoes

Virginia

That no free negro or mulato shall be suffered to keep or carry any firelock of any kind… without first obtaining a license from the court…
Race and Slavery Based

1806

1806 Va. Acts 51, ch. 94

Virginia

Required every “free negro or mulatto” to first obtain a license before carrying or keeping “any fire-lock of any kind, any military weapon, or any powder or lead.”
Registration and Taxation Race and Slavery Based
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