1894 — Virginia — Minimum Age

1893–94 Va. L. chap. 366, pp. 425-26

Summary

Forbade selling pistols, dirks, and bowie knives to minors.

Statutory Text

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That chapter one hundred and fifty-two of the acts of eighteen hundred and eighty nine and eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled an act to prevent selling or furnishing cigarettes or tobacco in any form, or pistols, dirks or bowie-knives to minors under sixteen years of age, approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1. That if any person sell, barter, give or furnish, or cause to be sold, bartered, given or furniphed to any minor under sixteon years of age, cigarettes or tobacco in any form, 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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Title 1894 — Virginia — Minimum Age
Conduct Transfer & Sale
Instrument Edged Weapons, Firearms
Jurisdiction VA
Date 1894