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Acts of the General Assembly and Ordinances of the Trustees, for the Organization and Government of the University of North Carolina, Laws for the Government of the University, at 15 Chapter V (1838)

, | , | 1838

CHAPTER V. Of the Moral and Religious conduct of the Students, and their conduct towards the Faculty. . . .

13. No Student shall keep a dog, or fire arms, or gunpowder. He shall not carry, keep, or own at the College, a sword, dirk, sword-cane,...

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Haywood, A Manual of the Laws of North-Carolina pt. 2 at 40 (1814) (N.C. constable oath).

| | 1814 You shall swear that you will well and truly serve the State of North Carolina in the office of a constable, you shall see and cause the peace of the State to be well and duly preserved and kept according to your power, you shall arrest all such persons a...

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1925 N.C. Sess. Laws 530, Pub. Local Laws, An Act to Protect Game and Fish in Transylvania County, ch. 460, § 4.

| | 1925

It shall be unlawful to trap for bear or to run or hunt deer with dogs or to use while hunting any gun having a “Maxim silencer” or any other device thereon that will muffle the report of such gun, nor shall any gun be used that does not pr...

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1921 N.C. Sess. Laws 105, Pub. Laws, An Act Defining the Crime of Burglary with Explosives and Providing the Punishment Therefor, ch. 5, §§ 1-2.

| | 1921

§ 1. 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, gunpo...

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1921 N.C. Sess. Laws 54, Pub. Laws Extra Sess., An Act to Protect Animals and Game in Parks and Game Reservations in Either Private or Public Parks or Places, ch. 6, § 3.

| | 1921

That any person who shall carry a pistol, revolver, or gun in any park or reservation such as is described in section one of this act, without having first obtained the written permission of the owner or manager of said park or reservation, shall be gu...

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1919 N.C. Sess. Laws 397-99, Pub. Laws, An Act to Regulate the Sale of Concealed Weapons in North Carolina, ch. 197, §§1, 5.

| | 1919

§ 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation in this State to sell, give away or dispose of, or to purchase or receive, at any place within the State from any other place within or without the State, without a license or per...

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1917 N.C. Sess. Laws 309, Pub. Local Laws, An Act to Regulate the Hunting of Quail in Harnett County, ch. 209, § 1.

| | 1917

That the open season for hunting quail shall be from the first day of December to the fifteenth day of January following each succeeding year, and that it shall be unlawful to kill quail with any gun or guns that shoot over two times before reloading, ...

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1917 N.C. Sess. Laws 134, Pub. Laws, An Act to Amend Section 3708 of the Revisal of North Carolina of 1905, Relating to Carrying Concealed Weapons, ch. 76, § 1.

| | 1917

If anyone except on his own premises shall carry concealed about his person any pistol or gun, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more...

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1913 N.C. Sess. Laws 57, Pub. Laws, An Act to Prevent the Use of Firearms by Children, ch. 32 § 1.

| | 1913

That any person being the parent or guardian of, or standing in loco parentis to, any child under the age of twelve years who shall knowlingly permit such child to have the possession or custody of, or use in any manner whatever, any gun, pistol, or ot...

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1911 N.C. Sess. Laws 735-36, Priv. Laws, An Act to Incorporate the Washington Branch Baptist Church in the County of Greene, ch. 293, § 4.

| | 1911

That it shall be a misdemeanor for any person to use loud, profane or indecent language, fire off a gun or pistol in hearing distance of those assembled for or engaged in divine worship, or otherwise disturb and annoy those assembled for or engaged in ...

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1909 N.C. Sess. Laws 777, Priv. Laws, An Act for a New Charter for the City of Southport, North Carolina, ch. 345, § 23, pt. 14.

| | 1909

[O]n dealers in pistols, guns, dirks, bowie knives, sling shots, brass or metal knuckles or other like deadly weapons, in addition to all other taxes, a license tax not exceeding fifty dollars; on dealers in firecrackers, Roman candles, skyrockets, toy...

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1905 N.C. Sess. Laws 488, Priv. Laws, An Act to Amend the Charter of the Town of Magnolia, in Duplin County, ch. 174, § 60.

| | 1905

That the board of commissioners of said town shall have power to pass ordinances for the protection of the persons and property of the citizens of the same, and to that end may pass an ordinance making it unlawful to discharge any gun, pistol, or other...

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1905 N.C. Sess. Laws 547, Priv. Laws, An Act to Amend the Charter of the Town of Pine Bluff, in Moore County, ch. 188, § 6.

| | 1905

That the commissioners of said town shall have authority to pass all necessary by-laws and ordinances for the proper government of the town, and to enforce the same by means of suitable fines and penalties. Among the powers specifically conferred upon ...

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1903 N.C. Sess. Laws 154, An Act Supplemental to an Act. . . Relating to Hunting and Fishing in Currituck County, ch. 136, § 3.

| | 1903

And it shall be unlawful for any persons or persons, either before or after they have put out decoys in the waters of Currituck Sound, to sail or row or propel a boat in any way after wild fowls in the waters of said sound for the purpose of forcing th...

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1901 N.C. Sess. Laws 160, Pub. Laws, An Act to Prohibit Shooting Guns and Pistols in the Town of Roper in Washington County, §§ 1, 2.

| | 1901

§ 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person wantonly, or in sport to shoot or discharge any gun or pistol in, or within two hundred yards or any street in, or any public road leading out of the town of Roper, in the county of Washington, for a d...

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1899 N.C. Sess. Laws 250, Pub. Laws, An Act to Prohibit Shooting Guns or Pistols in the Towns of Sparta, Alleghany County, and Jefferson, Ashe County, ch. 120, § 1.

| | 1899

That it shall be unlawful for any person wantonly or in sport to shoot or discharge any gun or pistol in or within one hundred yards of any street in any public road leading out of the towns of Sparta in Alleghany county and Jefferson in Ashe county fo...

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Regulations and Ordinances, Together with a Statement of the Various Acts, Ordinances and Resolutions Concerning the Town of Salem, N.C., from 1856 to 1896 Page 5, Image 6 (1896) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1896

[Ordinances of Salem, North Carolina, Ordinances Concerning Fire, § 7. No person shall fire a gun or pistol for the purpose of sport or amusement, nor shoot or discharge any sling shot, or other projectile unless by written consent of the Mayor. F...

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1893 N.C. Sess. Laws 468–69

| | 1893

Section 1: That it shall be unlawful for any person, corporation or firm knowingly to sell or offer for sale, give or in any way dispose of to a minor any pistol or pistol cartridge, brass knucks, bowie-knife, dirk, loaded cane, or sling shot. Sec. 2. ...

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1893 N.C. Sess. Laws 348, Priv. Laws, An Act to Incorporate Vestibule Church (Colored) in Cleveland County, ch. 221, § 5.

| | 1893

That it shall be a misdemeanor for any one while a congregation is assembled at the church for any social, religious, political or educational purposes, or while any such congregation is breaking and leaving, to fire any gun or pistol, to throw anythin...

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1879 N.C. Sess. Laws 231, An Act to Make the Carrying of Concealed Weapons a Misdemeanor, ch. 127, §§1, 2, 4.

| | 1879

§ 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person in this state, except when upon his own premises, to carry concealed about his person any pistol, bowie-knife, dirk, dagger, slungshot, loaded cane, brass, iron or metallic knuckes or other deadly weap...

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