1883

1883 R.I. Pub. Laws 157, An Act In Amendment Of And in Addition To Chapter 92 Of The Public Statutes “Of Fire-arms and Fire-works”, § 1

Rhode Island

§ 1. No person shall sell to any child under the age of fifteen years, without the written consent of a parent or guardian of such child, any cartridge or fixed ammunition of which any fulminate is a component part, or any gun, pistol or other mechanical contrivance arranged for the explosion of such cartridge or of any fulminate.
Possession by, Use of, and Sales to Minors and Others Deemed Irresponsible

1883

1883 Wash. Sess. Laws 139-40, An Act to Incorporate the City of Whatcom, ch. 2, § 8.

Washington

The city of Whatcom shall have the power to prevent injury or annoyance from anything dangerous, offensive, or unhealthy . . . to regulate and prohibit the carrying of deadly weapons in a concealed manner; to regulate and prohibit the use of guns, pistols and firearms, fire-crackers, bombs and detonating works of all descriptions[.]
Carrying Weapons

1883

1883 Ind. Acts 1712, Pointing or Aiming Firearms a Misdemeanor, chap. 87, § 6678.

Indiana

. . . [I]t shall be unlawful for any person over the age of ten years, with or without malice, purposely to point or aim any pistol, gun, revolver, or other firearm, either loaded or empty, at or toward any other person, and any person so offending shall be guilty of an unlawful act, and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than five hundred dollars.
Brandishing

1883

1883 Wash. Sess. Laws 302, An Act to Incorporate the City of Snohomish, ch. 6, § 29, pt. 15.

Washington

[The city has power] [T]o regulate and prohibit the carrying of deadly weapons in a concealed manner; to regulate and prohibit the use of guns, pistols, and fire-arms, fire crackers, bombs and detonating works of all descriptions[.]
Carrying Weapons

1883

1883 Wis. Sess. Laws 290

Wisconsin

Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any minor, within this state, to go armed with any pistol or revolver, and it shall be the duty of all sheriffs, constables, or other public police officers, to take from any minor, any pistol or revolver, found in his possession. Section 2. It shall be unlawful for any dealer in pistols or revolvers, or any other person, to sell, loan, or give any pistol or revolver to any minor in this state. Section 3. It shall be unlawful for any person in a state of intoxication, to go armed with any pistol …
Possession by, Use of, and Sales to Minors and Others Deemed Irresponsible

1883

1883 Wis. Sess. Laws 315, vol. 2, An Act to Revise, Consolidate and Amend the Charter of the City Of Wausau, ch. 151, tit. 5, § 38.

Wisconsin

The powers conferred upon the said council to provide for the abatement or removal of nuisances, shall not bar or hinder suits, prosecutions or proceedings in the courts according of law. Depots, houses or buildings of any kind, wherein more than twenty-five pounds of gun powder are deposited, stored or kept at any one time . . . within the limits of said city are hereby declared and shall be deemed public or common nuisances.
Storage

1883

1883 Wash. Sess. Laws 102 An Act for the Protection of Fish and Game, § 12.

Washington

Every person who shall use any sink box on any lake or river, or other waters in Washington Territory, for the purpose of shooting ducks or geese or other water fowls therefrom, or who shall use any batteries or swivel or pivot gun on boats, canvas, rafts or other device at any time, for the purpose of killing any water fowl within the limits of Washington Territory, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Hunting

1883

1883 Wis. Sess. Laws 369-70, vol. 2, An Act to Revise, Consolidate and Amend the City Charter of the City of Fond du Lac, ch. 152, ch. [sic] 6, § 8, pt. 16.

Wisconsin

To prevent and prohibit the manufacture, keeping or storing of nitro-glycerine, and to regulate the keeping and storing of gunpowder, gun cotton, burning fluids, coal oils and other dangerous explosive materials, in said city, and to provide for the inspection of illuminating oils and fluids.
Storage

1883

1883 Mo. Laws 76, An Act To Amend Section 1274, Article 2, Chapter 24 Of The Revised Statutes Of Missouri, Entitled “Of Crimes And Criminal Procedure,” § 1.

Missouri

If any person shall carry concealed, upon or about his person, any deadly or dangerous weapon, or shall go into any church or place where people have assembled for religious worship, or into any school room or place where people are assembled for educational, literary or social purposes, or to any election precinct on any election day, or into any court room during the sitting of court, or into any other public assemblage of persons met for any lawful purpose other than for militia drill or meetings called under the militia law of this state, having upon or about his …
Carrying Weapons Sensitive Places and Times Possession by, Use of, and Sales to Minors and Others Deemed Irresponsible

1883

1883 Wis. Sess. Laws 713, vol. 2, An Act to Revise, Consolidate and Amend the Charter of the City of Oshkosh, the Act Incorporating the City, and the Several Acts Amendatory Thereof, ch. 6, § 3, pt. 56.

Wisconsin

To regulate or prohibit the carrying or wearing by any person under his clothes, or concealed about his person, any pistol or colt, or slung shot, or cross knuckles or knuckles of lead, brass, or other metal or bowie knife, dirk knife, or dirk or dagger, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon; and to provide for the confiscation or sale of such weapon.
Carrying Weapons

1883

The Penal Code of the State of New York. In Force December 1, 1882, as Amended by Laws of 1882 and 1883 with Notes of Decisions and a Full Index Vol. 6 Page 98, Image 104 (1883) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

New York

Discharging Firearms in Public Places, § 468. A person, who willfully discharges any species of firearms, air-gun, or other weapon, or throws any deadly missile in any public place, or in any place where there is any person to be endangered thereby, although no injury to any person shall ensue, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Firing Weapons

1883

1883 Wis. Sess. Laws 986, 990, vol. 2, An Act to Incorporate the City of Sturgeon Bay, ch 341, § 52, pt. 40, 83.

Wisconsin

pt. 40: To prevent bonfires and the use of firearms and fireworks in the city or in any place or part thereof which may be dangerous to the city or any property therein, or annoying to the citizens thereof. pt. 83: To prohibit and prevent the carrying by any person of any pistol, bowie-knife, dirk, dagger or other concealed and dangerous weapon, except as authorized by law.
Carrying Weapons

1883

1883 Wis. Sess. Law 1034, An Act to Incorporate the City of Nicolet, ch. 351, § 32, pt. 45.

Wisconsin

To regulate and prohibit the carrying or wearing by any person, under his clothes, or concealed about his person, of any pistol, sling-shot, or knuckles, bowie-knife, dirk knife, or dirk or dagger, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon, and to provide for the confiscation or sale of such weapon.
Carrying Weapons

1883

William Martin Chase, The Public Statutes of the State of New Hampshire, To which are Prefixed the Constitutions of the United States and State of New Hampshire with a Glossary and Digested Index Page 713, Image 732 (1891) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

New Hampshire

Offenses Against Minors. § 4. If any person shall have in his possession a toy pistol, toy revolver, or other toy firearms, for the explosion of percussion caps or blank cartridges, with intent to sell the same, or shall sell, or offer to sell or to give away the same, he shall be fined not more than fifty dollars; and he shall be liable for all damages resulting from the use of the toy pistol, revolver, or other firearms by him sold or given away, to be recovered in an action on the case.
Dangerous or Unusual Weapons Possession by, Use of, and Sales to Minors and Others Deemed Irresponsible

1883

1883 Wis. Sess. Laws 370, vol. 2, And Act to Revise, Consolidate and Amend the City Charter of the City of Fond Du Lac, ch. 6, § 8, pt. 17.

Wisconsin

To prohibit, restrain or regulate the discharge of fire-arms and the explosion of gunpowder and guncotton, and the firing of firecrackers and fireworks of any kind within the city.
Firing Weapons

1883

1883 Tenn. Pub. Acts 17, A Bill to Be Entitled An Act to Prevent the Sale, Loan or Gift of Pistol Cartridges in This State, ch. 13.

Tennessee

[I]t shall be unlawful for any person or persons to buy or sell or give away any pistol cartridges in this state. . . [A]ny person or persons violating this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined not less than twenty-five or more than one hundred dollars. . . [P]rovided, however, that nothing in this act shall be construed to interfere with the sale of cartridges for rifle guns or shot guns, or cartridges for army or navy pistols.
Dangerous or Unusual Weapons

1883

Lewis M. Switzler, General Ordinances of the Town of Columbia, Boone County, Missouri, Revised, Published and Promulgated by Authority of the Board of Trustees of Said Town, in the Year 1883. To Which are Prefaced the General and Special Acts of the Legislature Concerning Said Town; Also, the Constitutional Provisions and Various General Laws, and References to Laws, Affecting Municipal Corporations in the State of Missouri Page 79, Image 80 (1883) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

Missouri

§ 128. Any person who shall be guilty of carrying concealed about his person any pistol, dirk, bowie knife, or other weapon, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not less than five dollars for every such offence.
Carrying Weapons

1883

1883 Ohio Laws 222, An Act to Prohibit the Sale of Toy Pistols in the State of Ohio, § 1.

Ohio

That it shall be unlawful for any firm, company or person in the state of Ohio, to sell or exhibit for sale any pistol manufactured out of any metallic or hard substance, commonly known as the “toy pistol”; to a minor under the age of fourteen years; any firm company or person violating the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars, or be imprisoned not less than ten days nor more than twenty days, or both, and shall be liable …
Possession by, Use of, and Sales to Minors and Others Deemed Irresponsible

1883

John Purdon, A Digest of the Laws of Pennsylvania: From the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred to the Sixth Day of July, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty-Three.11th Edition Page 423-424, Image 472-473 (Vol. 1, 1885) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

Pennsylvania

Crimes, Carrying and Sale of Explosives, § 113. Any person who shall knowingly and willfully sell or cause to be sold to any person under sixteen years of age, any cannon, revolver, pistol or other such deadly weapon, or who shall knowingly and willfully sell, or cause to be sold, to any such minor, any imitation or toy cannon, revolver or pistol so made, constructed or arranged as to be capable of being loaded with gunpowder or other explosive substance, cartridges, shot, slugs or balls and being exploded, fired off and discharged, and thereby become a dangerous or deadly weapon, …
Possession by, Use of, and Sales to Minors and Others Deemed Irresponsible

1883

1883 Mich. Pub. Acts 6, An Act To Amend . . . Acts Relating To The Protection Of Game, § 4.

Michigan

No person or persons shall at any time kill or attempt to kill, any wild duck or other wild fowl with or by means of a swivel or punt gun, or by means or use of any battery, sunken boat, or other device similar to a battery, or rob or destroy the nests of any wild duck or wild goose or brant, or in any manner kill or molest the same, at night or at any time, on their nesting places.
Hunting

1883

General Laws of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations to Which are Prefixed the Constitutions of the United States and of the State Page 372, Image 388 (1896) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

Rhode Island

Firearms and Fire-works. § 7. No person shall sell to any child under the age of fifteen years, without the written consent of a parent or guardian of such child, any cartridge or fixed ammunition of which any fulminate is a component part, or any gun, pistol or other mechanical contrivance arranged for the explosion of such cartridge or of any fulminate. § 8. Every person violating the provisions of the foregoing section shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than twenty dollars for each offence.
Possession by, Use of, and Sales to Minors and Others Deemed Irresponsible

1883

Revised Ordinances of the City of Danville Page 66, Image 133 (1883) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

Illinois

Ordinances of the City of Danville. Concealed Weapons. § 22. Whoever shall carry concealed upon or about his person any pistol, revolver, derringer, bowie-knife, dirk, slung-shot, metallic knuckles, or a razor, as a weapon, or any other deadly weapon of like character, capable or being concealed upon the person, or whoever shall in a threatening or boisterous manner, flourish or display the same, shall be fined not less than one dollar, nor more than one hundred dollars; and in addition to the said penalty shall, upon the order of the magistrate before whom such conviction is had, forfeits the weapon …
Brandishing

1883

1883 Mich. Pub. Acts 144, An Act To Prevent The Sale And Use Of Toy Pistols, § 1.

Michigan

That no person shall sell, give, or furnish to any child under the age of thirteen years, any cartridge of any form or material, or any pistol, gun, or other mechanical contrivance, specially arranged or designated for the explosion of the same.
Possession by, Use of, and Sales to Minors and Others Deemed Irresponsible

1883

Edward D. McLaughlin, The Revised Statutes and Codes of the State of Washington Page 1042, Image 1094 (1896) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

Washington

Sale of Toy Pistols to Children, It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to sell or offer for sale, any toy pistols within this state, and every person who shall sell, give, furnish, or cause to be furnished to any person under the age of sixteen years, any pistol, toy pistol or other pocket weapon, in which explosives may be used, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be fined in any sum not less than five, nor more than twenty-five dollars.
Possession by, Use of, and Sales to Minors and Others Deemed Irresponsible

1883

1883 Kan. Sess. Laws 159, An Act to Prevent Selling, Trading or Giving Deadly Weapons or Toy Pistols to Minors, and to Provide Punishment Therefor, ch. 106, §§ 1-2.

Kansas

§ 1. Any person who shall sell, trade, give, loan or otherwise furnish any pistol, revolver or toy pistol, by which cartridges or caps may be exploded, or any dirk, bowie-knife, brass knuckles, slung shot, or other dangerous weapons to any minor, or to any person of notoriously unsound mind, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction before any court of competent jurisdiction, be fined not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars. § 2. Any minor who shall have in his possession any pistol, revolver or toy pistol, by which cartridges may be …
Possession by, Use of, and Sales to Minors and Others Deemed Irresponsible