Summary
Forbade selling pistols, dirks, and bowie knives to minors.
Statutory Text
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That if any person sell, barter, give or furnish or cause to be sold, bartered, given, or furnished to any minor under sixteen years of age cigarettes, or pistols, or dirks, or bowie-knives, having good cause to believe him or her to be a minor under sixteen years of age, said person shall be fined not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.
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Details
Title
1890 — Virginia — Minimum Age
Conduct
Transfer & Sale
Instrument
Edged Weapons, Firearms
Jurisdiction
VA
Date
1890