Articles – Arms DB

1860 — Georgia — Slave Arms Possession

1860 Ga. L. chap. 64, pp. 56-57

Prohibited anyone other than the owner to give a slave or free person of color any gun, pistol, Bowie knife,...

GA

1860

1860 — Lawrence, Kansas — Weapon Discharge

1860 Kan. L. p. 136-38

Allowed the city of Lawrence to restrict firing weapons within the city and regulate the storage of gunpowder.

KS

1860

1860 — Washington County, Maryland — Weapon Discharge

2 Henry C. Mackall, The Maryland Code: Public Local Laws 903 (1860)

Allowed the county to fine those who discharged a gun in town except on days when the militia was mustered...

MD

1860

1860 — Wesleyan Seminary, Michigan — College Firearm Prohibition

Eighteenth Annual Catalogue of the Officers and Students of the Albion Female College, and Wesleyan Seminary 32 (1860)

College prohibition on firearms, gunpowder, and deadly weapons.

MI

1860

1858 — Wilmington, North Carolina — Arms Taxation

1860 N.C. L. chap. 180, pp. 218–20.

Specified what arms may be taxed in Wilmington: pistols, dirks, bowie knives, and sword canes. Specified they must be worn...

NC

1860

1860 — Pennsylvania — Carry Restriction

9 John Purdon, A Digest of the Laws of Pennsylvania, From the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred to the Twenty-First Day of May, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-One 250 (1862)

Restricted carry without reasonable cause to fear injury or assault.

PA

1860

1860 — Salt Lake, Utah — Weapon Discharge

Joseph Lippman, The Revised Ordinances of Salt Lake City, Utah, Embracing All Ordinances of a General Nature in Force December 20, 1892, Together with the Charter of Salt Lake City, the Amendments Thereto, and Territorial Laws of a General Nature Applicable to Salt Lake City, and the Constitution of the United States 284 (1893)

Prohibited firing weapons in Salt Lake City without the proper infrastructure to protect other citizens.

UT

1860

1860 — Texas — Pistol Gallery Tax

5 Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen Gammel, The Laws of Texas, 1822-1897. Austin’s Colonization Law and Contract; Mexican Constitution of 1824; Federal Colonization Law; Colonization Laws of Coahuila and Texas; Colonization Law of State of Tamaulipas; Fredonian Declaration of Independence; Laws and Decrees, with Constitution of Coahuila and Texas; San Felipe Convention; Journals of the Consultation; Proceedings of the General Council; Goliad Declaration of Independence; Journals of the Convention at Washington; Ordinances and Decrees of the Consultation; Declaration of Independence; Constitution of the Republic; Laws, General and Special, of the Republic; Annexation Resolution of the United Sates; Ratification of the same by Texas; Constitution of the United States; Constitutions of the State of Texas, with All the Laws, General and Special passed thereunder, Including Ordinances, Decrees, and Resolutions, with the Constitution of the Confederate States and the Reconstruction Acts of Congress. 121 (1898)

Authorizes3 towns to tax pistol galleries.

TX

1860

1860 — Callaway, Missouri — Weapon Discharge

1860 Mo. L. p. 335

Reiterated cemetary weapon discharge ban.

MO

1860

Advanced Search

Filters

Search Results (9)

1860 — Georgia — Slave Arms Possession

1860 — Lawrence, Kansas — Weapon Discharge

1860 — Washington County, Maryland — Weapon Discharge

1860 — Wesleyan Seminary, Michigan — College Firearm Prohibition

1858 — Wilmington, North Carolina — Arms Taxation

1860 — Pennsylvania — Carry Restriction

1860 — Salt Lake, Utah — Weapon Discharge

1860 — Texas — Pistol Gallery Tax

1860 — Callaway, Missouri — Weapon Discharge