1867 — Memphis, Tennessee — Minimum Age

William H. Bridges, Digest of the Charters and Ordinances of the City of Memphis, from 1826 to 1867, Inclusive: Together with the Acts of the Legislature Relating to the City, with an Appendix 50 (1867)

Summary

Prohibited selling pistols and dangerous knives to minors except for hunting or travel.

Statutory Text

4864. Any person who sells, loans or gives to any minor a pistol, bowie-knife, dirk, Arkansas toothpick, hunter’s knife, or like dangerous weapon, except a gun for hunting or weapon for defense in traveling, is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars, and imprisoned in the county jail at the discretion of the court.

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Title 1867 — Memphis, Tennessee — Minimum Age
Conduct Transfer & Sale
Instrument Edged Weapons, Firearms
Jurisdiction TN
Date 1867