1887

Sam Kimble Revised Ordinances of the City of Manhattan and Rules of the Council Page 49-50, Image 51-52 (1887) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

Kansas

Ordinances of Manhattan, KS; Offenses Against the Public Peace, Health and Safety, Toy Pistols, §13. Any person who shall give, trade, loan or otherwise furnish any pistol, revolver, or toy pistol by which cartridges or caps may be exploded, or any dirk, bowie-knife sling shot or toy known as “rubber sling shot” or other dangerous weapon, to any minor or to any person of notoriously unsound mind, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall upon conviction before the Police Judge be fined not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars. § 14. Having Possession of the …
Possession by, Use of, and Sales to Minors and Others Deemed Irresponsible

1887

Geoffrey Andrew Holmes, Compiled Ordinances of the City of Council Bluffs, and Containing the Statutes Applicable to Cities of the First-Class, Organized under the Laws of Iowa Page 168-169, Image 171-172 (1887) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

Iowa

Ordinances, City of Council Bluffs, Shooting Gallery, § 5. No person shall carry on or take part in carrying on any pistol gallery or shooting gallery without license therefor from said city, and the charge for such license shall be ten dollars per month, or fifty dollars per annum. §6. No licensee or his employee, or any person in charge of any pin alley, ball alley, pistol gallery or shooting gallery, shall at any time, without gain or profit, permit or allow any minor to be or remain in or about the same to play thereat, under penalty of the …
Registration and Taxation

1887

1887 Fla. Laws 164-165, An Act to Establish the Municipality of Jacksonville Provide for its Government and Prescribe it’s jurisdiction and powers, chap. 3775, § 4.

Florida

The Mayor and City Council shall within the limitations of this act have power by ordinance to . . . regulate and license the sale of firearms and suppress the carrying of concealed weapons.
Carrying Weapons

1887

A Revised Edition of Acts of Assembly and Ordinances Relating to the Borough of Gettysburg, Together with a Brief History of the Town from Its Foundation to the Present Time, 1887. Revised Edition Page 62-63, Image 63-64 (1887) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

Pennsylvania

Ordinances of the City of Gettysburg, Keeping Powder or Gun Cotton for Sale, § 9. That no person shall keep or have in their possession or cause to be kept within said borough, rock or gun powder, gun or explosive cotton, or other combustible matter likely to prove dangerous, unless the same is preserved carefully and without danger to the citizens in a safe magazine constructed and used solely for that purpose and at a distance of at least 500 feet from any dwelling, and the person offending against this section shall, upon conviction before the burgess or any Justice …
Storage

1887

1887 Fla. Laws 164-165, An Act to Establish the Municipality of Jacksonville Provide for its Government and Prescribe its Jurisdiction and Powers, chap. 3775, § 4.

Florida

The Mayor and City Council shall within the limitations of this act have power by ordinance to . . . regulate the storage of gun-powder, tar, pitch, resin, saltpetre, gun cotton, coat oil, and other combustible, explosive and inflammable material . . . .
Storage

1887

George P. Brown, The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Marquette. The Laws Relating to the Board of Water and Fire Commissioners, the Board of Light and Power Commissioners, School District Number One, and the Peter White Public Library, Also Miscellaneous Provisions Page 213, Image 246 (1898) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

Michigan

Carrying of Concealed Weapons. That it shall be unlawful for any person, except officers of the peace and night-watches legitimately employed as such, to go armed with a dirk, dagger, sword, pistol, air-gun, stiletto, metallic knuckes, pocket-billie, sand-bag, skull-cracker, slung-shot, razor, or other offensive and dangerous weapon or instrument concealed upon his person.
Carrying Weapons

1887

Chester H. Krum, Reviser, The Revised Ordinance City of St. Louis. No. 17188. Approved April 7, 1893 Page 885, Image 894 (1895) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

Missouri

Ordinances of the City of St. Louis. Minors – Conditions of Sale to, of Ammunition. – No person shall sell to any child under the age of sixteen years, without the written consent of the parents or guardian of such child, any cartridge of 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

1887

Robert C. Brickell, Commissioner, The Code of Alabama, Adopted by Act of the General Assembly Approved February 28, 1887; with Such Statutes Passed at the Session of 1886-87, as are Required to Be Incorporated Therein by Act Approved February 21, 1887; and with Citations of the Decisions of the Supreme Court of the State Construing the Statutes Page 93, Image 103 (Vol. 2, 1887) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

Alabama

Storing Gunpowder in Town Limits, § 4093. Storing Gunpowder in city or town. – Any person who keeps on hand, at any one time, within the limits of any incorporated city or town, for sale or for use, more than fifty pounds of gunpowder, must, on conviction, be fined not less than one hundred dollars.
Storage

1887

Ordinances of the Council of the City of Dallas and Annual Reports of City Officers from October 1st, 1886 to June 25th, 1888 Page 80, Image 80 (1888) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

Texas

An Ordinance Prohibiting and Punishing the Unlawful Carrying of Arms, § 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Dallas, that if any person in the City of Dallas shall carry on or about his person, saddle, or in his saddle-bags, any pistol, dirk, dagger, slungshot, sword- cane, spear, or knuckles made of any metal or hard substance, bowie knife, or any other kind of knife manufactured or sold for purposes of offense or defense, he shall be punished by fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than two hundred dollars and shall be confined …
Carrying Weapons

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

Robert C. Brickell, Commissioner, The Code of Alabama, Adopted by Act of the General Assembly Approved February 28, 1887; with Such Statutes Passed at the Session of 1886-87, as are Required to Be Incorporated Therein by Act Approved February 21, 1887; and with Citations of the Decisions of the Supreme Court of the State Construing the Statutes Page 93, Image 103 (Vol, 2, 1887) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

Alabama

Article VII, Using Fire-arms in public places and selling weapons to minors, § 4094. Using fire-arms while fighting in public place. — Any person, who, while fighting in the streets of any city or town, or at a militia muster, or at any public place, whether public in itself, or made public at the time by an assemblage of persons, uses, or attempts to use, except in self-defense, any kind of fire-arms, must, on conviction, be fined not less than two hundred, nor more than five hundred dollars, and may also be imprisoned in the county jail, or sentenced to …
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

1887

Geoffrey Andrew Holmes, Compiled Ordinances of the City of Council Bluffs, and Containing the Statutes Applicable to Cities of the First-Class, Organized under the Laws of Iowa Page 206-207, Image 209-210 (1887) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

Iowa

Carrying Concealed Weapons Prohibited, § 105. It shall be unlawful for any person to carry under his clothes or concealed about his person, or found in his possession, any pistol or firearms, slungshot, brass knuckles, or knuckles of lead, brass or other metal or material , or any sand bag, air guns of any description, dagger, bowie knife, or instrument for cutting, stabbing or striking, or other dangerous or deadly weapon, instrument or device; provided that this section shall not be construed to prohibit any officer of the United States, or of any State, or any peace officer, from wearing …
Carrying Weapons

1887

Thomas D. Davis, The Code of the City of Lynchburg, Va., Containing the Charter of 1880, with the Amendments of 1884, 1886 and 1887, and the General Ordinances in Force July 1st, 1887, Also a Digest of Acts of Assembly and of Ordinances Affecting the Rights and Interests of the City of Lynchburg and its Citizens, Together with a Brief Sketch, Historical and Statistical Page 117, Image 128 (1887) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

Virginia

[Ordinances of Lynchburg,] Public Safety, § 19. No person shall carry gunpowder, blasting powder, dynamite or other explosives on a vehicle in any part of the city unless the same shall be secured in kegs, boxes, or canisters, so that no part thereof can fall out or escape.
Transportation

1887

The Code of Virginia: With the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States; and the Constitution of Virginia Page 897, Image 913 (1887) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

Virginia

Offences Against the Peace, § 3780. Carrying Concealed Weapons, How Punished. Forfeiture and Sale of Weapons. If any person carry about his person, hid from common observation, any pistol, dirk, bowie-knife, razor, slung-shot, or any weapon of the like kind, he shall be fined not less than twenty nor more than one hundred dollars, and such pistol, dirk, bowie-knife, razor, slung-shot, or any weapon of the like kind, shall be forfeited to the commonwealth and may be seized by an officer as forfeited; and upon the conviction of the offender the same shall be sold and the proceeds accounted for …
Carrying Weapons

1887

Richard Z. Johnson, The Revised Statutes of Idaho Territory: Enacted at the Fourteenth Session of the Legislative Assembly: In Force June 1, 1887 Page 729, Image 733 (1887) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

Idaho

Chapter VI, Assaults with Intent to Commit Other Felony, Assaulting and Intimidation, § 6706. If any person assaults and beats another with a cowhide, stick, or whip, having at the time in his possession, a pistol or other deadly weapon, with intent to intimidate and prevent the person assaulted from defending himself, such person is punishable by imprisonment in the Territorial prison not less than one nor more than four years.
Sentence Enhancement for Use of Weapon

1887

Thomas D. Davis, The Code of the City of Lynchburg, Va., Containing the Charter of 1880, with the Amendments of 1884, 1886 and 1887, and the General Ordinances in Force July 1st, 1887, Also a Digest of Acts of Assembly and of Ordinances Affecting the Rights and Interests of the City of Lynchburg and its Citizens, Together with a Brief Sketch, Historical and Statistical Page 116, Image 127 (1887) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

Virginia

[Ordinances of Lynchburg, Public Safety,] Revised Ordinance, § 14. No person shall set off any fireworks or explode any popcrackers within the city limits. No person shall discharge any gun, pistol or other fire-arm within the city limits. No person shall, without the written consent of the Mayor, fire a cannon in the city, nor shall any cannon be fired within one hundred yards of any dwelling-house without the consent of the owner or occupant of such house. For violations of this section, the penalty shall be not less than one dollar nor more than ten dollars for each offence.
Firing Weapons

1887

M.J. Sullivan, The Revised Ordinance of the City of St. Louis, 1887. To Which are Prefixed the Constitution of the United States, Constitution of the State of Missouri, a Digest of Acts of the General Assembly Relating to the City, the Scheme for the Separation of the Governments of the City and County of St. Louis and the Charter of the City Page 689-690, Image 698-699 (1887) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

Missouri

Revised Ordinances [of the City of St. Louis], Gunpowder, § 688. Not exceeding five pounds of gunpowder shall be allowed to be kept by any person or persons in any store, dwelling, building, or other place within the city, except that retailers or venders of gunpowder in small quantities may for that purpose keep any quantity not exceeding thirty pounds; provided, that the same shall also be kept in tin or metal canisters or stone jars, with good and closely fitted and well secured covers thereon; provided, also, that those parties now having magazines within the limits of the city …
Storage

1887

1887 Mich. Pub. Acts 144, An Act to Prevent The Carrying Of Concealed Weapons, And To Provide Punishment Therefor, § 1.

Michigan

It shall be unlawful for any person, except officers of the peace and night-watches legitimately employed as such, to go armed with a dirk, dagger, sword, pistol, air gun, stiletto, metallic knuckles, pocket-billie, sand-bag, skull-cracker, slung-shot, razor, or other offensive and dangerous weapon or instrument concealed upon his person.
Carrying Weapons

1887

Charles H. Price, The Compiled Laws of the Territory of Dakota, A. D. 1887. Comprising the Codes and General Statutes in Force at the Conclusion of the Seventeenth Session of the Legislative Assembly Page 523, Image 545 (1887) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources. (An Entry for this statute exists for both North and South Dakota because it was passed during the territorial period.)

South Dakota

Political Code. § 2372. If any person shall kill or shoot any wild duck, goose or brant with any swivel gun, or any kind of gun except such as is commonly shot from the shoulder, or shall use medicated or poisoned food to capture or kill any of the birds named in this act, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined twenty-five dollars for each offense, and shall stand committed to the county jail for thirty days unless such fine and the costs of prosecution are sooner paid.
Hunting

1887

O. P. Ergenbright, Revised Ordinances of the City of Independence, Kansas: Together with the Amended Laws Governing Cities of the Second Class and Standing Rules of the City Council Page 162, Image 157 (1887) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

Kansas

Weapons, § 27. Any person who in this city shall draw any pistol or other weapon in a hostile manner, or shall make any demonstration or threat of using such weapon on or against any person; or any person who shall carry or have on his or her person, in a concealed manner, any pistol, dirk, bowie-knife, revolver, slung-shot, billy, brass, lead, or iron knuckles, or any deadly weapon, within this city, shall be fined not less than five dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars: Provided, that this ordinance shall not be so construed as to prohibit officers of …
Carrying Weapons

1887

1887 Mich. Pub. Acts 251, Local Acts, An Act To Incorporate The City Of Marshall . . . , ch. 18, § 11, pt. 7.

Michigan

To direct the location of all buildings for storing gunpowder or other combustible or explosive substances; to make regulations concerning the buying, carrying, selling, keeping and using gunpowder, fire-crackers or fire-works, or other combustible, inflammable [sic], explosive or dangerous articles; the exhibition of fire-works and the discharge of cannon and fire-arms; and the use and [sic] kind of lamps or lights to be used in barns, stables and all buildings usually regarded as extra hazardous on account of fire, and to regulate, prevent and restrain the making of bonfires in the streets, lanes, alleys and public places[.]
Firing Weapons

1888

Josiah A.Patterson Campbell, The Revised Code of the Statute Laws of the State of Mississippi: With References to Decisions of the High Court of Errors and Appeals, and of the Supreme Court, Applicable to the Statutes Page 775, Image 775 (1880) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

Mississippi

[Crimes and Misdemeanors, §2983. If any person assaults and beats another with a cowhide, whip or stick, having at the time in his possession a pistol or other deadly weapon, with intent to intimidate the person assaulted, and prevent him from defending himself, he shall on conviction be imprisoned in the penitentiary not longer than ten years.]
Sentence Enhancement for Use of Weapon

1888

1888 Utah Laws 166, An Act to Establish a Uniform System of County Governments, ch. 50, § 19, pt. 31.

Utah

To adopt such rules and regulations within their respective counties, except within municipal corporations, with regard to the keeping and storing of every kind of gun powder, [H]ercules powder, giant powder, or other combustible material, as the safety and protection of the lives and property of individuals may require.
Storage

1888

An Ordinance in Revision of the Ordinances of the City of DeSoto, Jefferson Co., State of Missouri, and for the Government of Said City Page 52, Image 59 (1888) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

Missouri

[Ordinances of the City of DeSoto,] § 217. Whenever there shall be found upon the person of anyone who has been found guilty of a breach of the peace, or of conduct calculated to provoke a breach of the peace, any slung shot, pistol, or knuckles of lead, brass, or other metal, or when upon trial, evidence shall be adduced proving that such weapons were in the possession, or on the person of anyone, while in the act or commission of the act aforesaid, such person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
Sentence Enhancement for Use of Weapon