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Selling Liquors on Camp Grounds Prohibited, § 22 of Chapter 102—An Act to Revise, Amend, and Codify the Statutes Relative to the Militia in Acts and Resolutions Passed at the Regular Session of the Twenty-Sixth General Assembly of the State of Iowa (1896).

| | 1896

        "Sec. 22. Any person who shall trespass on the encampment grounds, or the camp grounds of the guard in active service, or interrupt, molest, or interfere with any member of the guard in the discharge of his duties, or sell any malt, spiritu...

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Unlawful for Other than Regularly Organized Militia to Organize, Title 8, Ch. 1, § 36, Revised and Annotated Code of Iowa, Vol. 1 (1880).

| | 1880

"Sec. 36. It shall not be lawful for any body of men whatever, other than the regularly organized volunteer militia of this state and the troops of the United States, to associate themselves together as a military company or organization, or to drill o...

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1913 Iowa Acts 307, ch. 297, § 2

| | 1913

§ 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, except as hereinafter provided, to go armed with and have concealed upon his person a dirk, dagger, sword, pis...

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An Act Defining Crime and Punishments, Ch. 49, Sec. 3, in Revised Statutes of the Territory of Iowa (Reprint 1911)

| | 1843

SEC. 3. That if any person shall, in the night season, break open and enter any mansion, house, shop, store or any other house or building whatever, boat or other water craft in which any person shall reside or dwell, and shall commit or attempt to com...

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An Act Defining Crime and Punishments, Ch. 49, Sec. 20, in Revised Statutes of the Territory of Iowa (Reprint 1911).

| | 1843

SEC. 20. If any person or persons, in this territory, shall make an assault with a deadly weapon, instrument, or other thing, with an intent to inflict upon the person of another, a bodily injury, where no considerable provocation ap- pears, or where t...

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An Act Defining Crime and Punishments, Ch. 49, Sec. 51, in Revised Statutes of the Territory of Iowa (Reprint 1911)

| | 1843

SEC. 51. If any person shall maliciously stab or shoot any other person, with intent to kill, wound or maim such person, every person so offending, upon conviction thereof, shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary, and kept at hard labor, not more than ...

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An Act Defining Crime and Punishments, Ch. 49, Sec. 72, in Revised Statutes of the Territory of Iowa (Reprint 1911)

, | | 1843

SEC. 72. If any person shall aid or assist a prisoner, lawfully committed or detained in any jail, for any offense against this territory, or who shall be lawfully confined by virue of any civil process, to make his or her escape from jail, though no e...

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1927 Iowa Acts 201, An Act to prohibit the Possession or Control of Machine Guns. . . ., §§ 1–2.

| | 1927

§ 1. No person, firm, partnership, or corporation shall knowingly have in his or its possession or under his or its control any machine gun which is capable of being fired from the shoulder or hip of a person, and by the recoil of such gun. §...

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1917 Iowa Acts 185, An Act . . . relating to burglary with explosives and to enact a substitute therefor, relating to burglary with explosives and electric burning, and gun, § 1.

| | 1917

. . . Any person who, with intent to commit crime breaks and enters, either by day or by night, any building, whether inhabited or not, and opens or attempts to open any vault, safe or other secure place by use of nitro-glycerine, dynamite, giant powde...

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1907 Iowa Acts 81, ch. 76, § V(e).

| | 1907

If there be kept, used or allowed on the within described premises benzine, benzole, dynamite, ether, fireworks, gasoline, Greek fire, gunpowder, exceeding twenty-five pounds in quantity, naptha, nitroglycerine, or other explosives, phosphorous, calciu...

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William H. Baily, The Revised Ordinances of Nineteen Hundred of the City of Des Moines, Iowa Page 89-90, Image 89-90 (1900) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1900

Ordinances City of Des Moines, Weapons, Concealed, § 209. It shall be unlawful for any person to carry under his clothes or concealed about his person, or found in his possession, any pistol or other firearms, slungshot, brass knuckles, or knuckle...

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Annotated Code of the State of Iowa Containing All the Laws of a General Nature Enacted by The Twenty-Sixth General Assembly at the Extra Session, Which Adjourned July 2, 1897 Page 1955, Image 787 (Vol. 1, 1897) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1897

§ 5004. Selling Firearms to Minors. No person shall knowingly sell, present or give any pistol, revolver or toy pistol to any minor. Any violation of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred d...

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Annotated Code of the State of Iowa Containing All the Laws of a General Nature Enacted by The Twenty-Sixth General Assembly at the Extra Session, Which Adjourned July 2, 1897 Page 1898, Image 730 (Vol. 1, 1897).

| | 1897

"Sec. 4775. Carrying concealed weapons. If any person carry upon his person any concealed weapon, or shall willfully draw and point a pistol, revolver or gun at another, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be fined not more than ...

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E. M. Sharon,Revised Ordinances of the City of Davenport, of 1893, Together with the Charter of Said City and Laws Amendatory Thereof: Also, a Reference to Judicial Decisions Page 165, Image 165 (1893) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1893

Ordinances of the City of Davenport, Misdemeanors. § 37. Any person who shall sell, or keep for sale, within the city of Davenport, any toy pistol or toy gun which is discharged by means of any fulminating or explosive cap, cartridge, or other exp...

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Geoffrey Andrew Holmes, Compiled Ordinances of the City of Council Bluffs, and Containing the Statutes Applicable to Cities of the First-Class, Organized under the Laws of Iowa Page 206-207, Image 209-210 (1887) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1887

Carrying Concealed Weapons Prohibited, § 105. It shall be unlawful for any person to carry under his clothes or concealed about his person, or found in his possession, any pistol or firearms, slungshot, brass knuckles, or knuckles of lead, brass o...

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Geoffrey Andrew Holmes, Compiled Ordinances of the City of Council Bluffs, and Containing the Statutes Applicable to Cities of the First-Class, Organized under the Laws of Iowa Page 168-169, Image 171-172 (1887) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1887

Ordinances, City of Council Bluffs, Shooting Gallery, § 5. No person shall carry on or take part in carrying on any pistol gallery or shooting gallery without license therefor from said city, and the charge for such license shall be ten dollars pe...

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1884 Iowa Acts 86.

| | 1884

Section 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly sell, present or give any pistol, revolver or toy pistol to any minor.

Sec. 2. Any violation of this act shall be punishable by a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than o...

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S. J. Quincy, Revised Ordinances of the City of Sioux City. Sioux City, Iowa Page 62, Image 62 (1882) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1882

Ordinances of the City of Sioux City, Iowa, § 4. No person shall, within the limits of the city, wear under his clothes, or concealed about his person, any pistol, revolver, slung-shot, cross-knuckles, knuckles of lead, brass or other metal, or an...

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