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Forbade the concealed carry of pistols, bowie knives, and other weapons even if not habitual. Previous statutes only restricted habitual concealed carry. Removed imprisonment as a punishment, and set a minimum fine of $15.
Statutory Text
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section seven of the criminal code, approved March fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, be amended and reenacted so as to read as follows:
§ 7. If a person carry about his person, hid from common observation, any pistol, dirk, bowie-knife, or any weapon of the like kind, he shall be fined not more than fifty dollars, nor less than fifteen dollars.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.
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Title
1881 — Virginia — Concealed Carry
Conduct
Public Possession & Carry
Instrument
Edged Weapons, Firearms
Jurisdiction
VA
Date
1881