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An Act in Relation to Public Arms, ch. 21, §§ 1-2, 1875 N.C. Pub. Laws 18, 18.

| | 1874

"AN ACT IN RELATION TO PUBLIC ARMS.

 

    SECTION 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That the auditor of the State is hereby authorized a...

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Military Parades by Unauthorized Bodies Prohibited, § 88 of Chapter 165—An Act to Provide a Military Code for the State of North Dakota in Laws Passed at the Eleventh Session of the Legislative Assembly Of The State Of North Dakota (1909).

| | 1909

"Sec. 88. Military parades by unauthorized bodies prohibited.] No body of men, other than the regularly organized corps of the national guard and militia and the troops of the United States, shall associate themselves together as a military company or ...

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1923 N.D. Laws 379, 380-82

| | 1923

Sec. 10. SALES REGULATED. No person shall sell, deliver, or otherwise transfer a pistol or revolver to a person who he has reasonable cause to believe either is an unnaturalized foreign born person or has been convicted of a felony against the person o...

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1931 N. D. Laws 305-06, An Act to Prohibit the Possession, Sale and Use of Machine Guns, Sub-Machine Guns, or Automatic Rifles and Defining the Same . . . , ch. 178, §§ 1-2.

| | 1931

§ 1. The term “machine gun, sub-machine gun or automatic rifle” as used in this act shall be construed to mean a weapon mechanism or instrument not requiring the trigger be pressed for each shot and having a reservoir, belt or other me...

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1925 N.D. Laws 216–17, Pistols and Revolvers, ch. 174, § 2.

| | 1925

§ 2 Committing Crime When Armed. If any person shall commit, or attempt to commit, a crime when armed with a pistol or revolver, and has no permit to carry the same, he may be punished by imprisonment for not more than ten years, in addition to th...

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1923 N.D. Laws 380, Pistols and Revolvers, ch. 266, § 6.

| | 1923

Sec. 6. Carrying Pistol Concealed. No person shall carry a pistol or revolver concealed in any vehicle or in any package, satchel, grip, suit case or carry in any way or upon his person, except in his dwelling house or place of business, without a lice...

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1923 N.D. Laws 380, Pistols and Revolvers, ch. 266, § 5.

| | 1923

Sec. 5. Aliens and Criminals Must Not Possess Arms. No unnaturalized foreign-born person and no person who has been convicted of a felony against the person or property of another or against the Government of the United States or of any State or subdiv...

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1923 N.D. Laws 380, Pistols and Revolvers, ch. 266, § 2.

| | 1923

Sec. 2. Commiting Crime When Armed. If any person shall commit or attempt to commit a crime when armed with a pistol or revolver, and having no permit to carry the same, he shall be in addition to the punishment provided for the crime, be punished by i...

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1923 N.D. Laws 381, Pistols and Revolvers, ch. 266, § 9.

| | 1923

Sec. 9. Selling to Minors. Any person or persons who shall sell, barter, hire, lend or give to any minor under the age of eighteen years any pistol or revolver shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall upon conviction thereof be fined not less...

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1923 N.D. Laws 380–81, Pistols and Revolvers, ch. 266, § 8.

, | | 1923

Sec. 8. Issue of Licenses to Carry. The justice of a court of record, the chief of police of a city or town and the sheriff of a county, or persons authorized by any of them shall upon the application of any person having a bonafide residence or place ...

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1921 N.D. Laws 173, An Act to Prohibit Intoxicating Liquors and Beverages and Property Intended for Manufacture of Same; Prohibiting the Transportation of Liquor . . . , ch. 97, § 13.

| | 1921

Provided, however, that if the evidence in such case convinces the court that the person convicted of transporting intoxicating liquors in violation of this Act, was in charge of and used any wagon, buggy, automobile, water or aircraft, or other vehicl...

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1919 N.D. Laws 173, § 8.

| | 1919

Section 51 . . . is hereby amended . . . Any person traveling in any manner in any part of this state off the public highway, outside the immediate bounds of the inhabited parts of any village, town or city in possession of any kind of a shot gun, with...

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1915 N.D. Laws 225, An Act Relating to Game and Fish . . . , ch. 161, § 67.

, | | 1915

It shall be unlawful for any person who is not a citizen of the United States or who has not declared his intention to become such, to hunt, shoot, capture, take, kill, trap, snare or in any manner destroy, wound or maim any wild bird or animal . . . e...

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1915 N.D. Laws 96, An Act to Provide for the Punishment of Any Person Carrying Concealed Any Dangerous Weapons or Explosives, or Who Has the Same in His Possession, Custody or Control, unless Such Weapon or Explosive Is Carried in the Prosecution of a Legitimate and Lawful Purpose, ch. 83, §§ 1-3, 5.

, | | 1915

§ 1. Any person other than a public officer, who carries concealed in his clothes any instrument or weapon of the kind usually known as a black-jack, slung-shot, billy, sand club, sand bag, bludgeon, metal knuckles, or any sharp or dangerous weapo...

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1907 N.D. Laws 179, An Act Making It a Felony for Any Person Who with Intent to Commit Any Crime Breaks into or Enters a Building and Commits or Attempts to Commit a Crime by the Use of Nitroglycerine, Dynamite, Gunpowder or Any Other High Explosive, and Providing a Penalty Therefor, ch. 124, § 1.

| | 1907

Any person who with intent to commit any crime, breaks into or enters a building and commits or attempts to commit a crime by the use of nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gunpowder or any other high explosive, is guilty of a felony. Any violation of this act ...

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1901 N.D. Laws 133-34, An Act . . . Relating to Game and Fish, ch. 106, § 1, pts. 5, 6.

| | 1901

Every person who either . . . 5. Shall at any time catch or kill any of the birds permitted to be killed by this act at any time in any other manner than by shooting them with a gun held ot the shoulder by a person discharging the same; or 6. Shall at ...

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1899 N.D. Laws 124-25, An Act Relating to the Protection of Game and Fish, § 7, pt. 5.

| | 1899

Shooting or killing restricted, penalty: Every person who either . . . at any time kills or shoots any wild duck, goose, crane or brant with a swivel gun or other guns except such as is commonly shot from the shoulder, or in hunting such birds makes us...

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The Revised Codes of the State of North Dakota 1895 Together with the Constitution of the United States and of the State of North Dakota with the Amendments Thereto Page 1259, Image 1293 (1895) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1895

Setting Spring Gun, Trap or Device. Every person who sets any spring or other gun or trap or device operating by the firing or exploding of gunpowder or any other explosive, and leaves or permits the same to be left, except in the immediate presence of...

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The Revised Codes of the State of North Dakota 1895 Together with the Constitution of the United States and of the State of North Dakota with the Amendments Thereto Page 1299, Image 1333 (1895) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1895

[Unlawful Discharge of Firearms, § 7358. Every person who willfully discharges any species of firearm, air gun or other weapon or throws any missile in any public place or in any place where there is any person to be endangered thereby, although n...

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1895 N.D. Rev. Codes 1293, Penal Code, Crimes Against the Public Health and Safety, ch. 40, §§ 7312-13.

| | 1895

§ 7312. Carrying or using slung shot. Every person who carries upon his person, whether concealed or not, or uses or attempts to use against another, any instrument or weapon of the kind usually known as slung shot, or of any similar kind, is guil...

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The Revised Codes of the State of North Dakota 1895 Together with the Constitution of the United States and of the State of North Dakota with the Amendments Thereto Page 1289, Image 1323 (1895) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1895

Keeping Explosives, § 7290. Every person who makes or keeps gunpowder, saltpeter, gun-cotton, nitroglycerine or dynamite or any compound of the same, or any fulminate or substance which is intended to be used by exploding or igniting the same, in ...

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1891 N.D. Laws 193, An Act to Amend Sections 1 and 2 of Chapter 63 of the General Laws of 1883, ch. 70, § 1.

| | 1891

That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to kill, ensnare or trap in any form or manner, or by any device whatever, or for any purpose, any buffalo, elk, deer, antelope or mountain sheep between the 1st day of January and the 1st day of Sept...

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