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Prohibited selling arms or ammunition to hostile Indians. The law also prohibited Indians from hunting on U.S. lands.
License required to sell knuckles, pistols, and .45 caliber rifles.
Persons who give arms to "incautious person[s]" are to ensure the arm is "perfectly innoxious."
Instituted a $2 tax on all pistols or revolvers posessed for private purposes (not sale), and a $3 tax for...
This law instituted arms licensing for former slaves.
Barred Blacks from service in the militia and prohibited their possession of arms unless they own a farm, and their...
Prohibited free Blacks from owning firearms or "any warlike instrument." Likewise prohibited the sale of arms to free Blacks.
Eliminated the ability for free Blacks to obtain licenses to carry bowie knives or firearms; instituted a ban on public...
Prohibited anyone other than the owner to give a slave or free person of color any gun, pistol, Bowie knife,...
Law prohibited the discharge of guns and pistols in streets, public areas, and near doors of any building. The discharge...
