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The Military Code of Utah, ch. 53, § 53, 1894 Utah Laws 64, 76-77. 

| | 1894

        "SEC. 53. It shall not be lawful for any body of men whatever, other than the regular organized vol­unteer militia of this Territory, and the troops of the United States, to associate themselves togeth...

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Offenses Against the Peace of the City, Ch. 6, § 182, The Revised Ordinances of Provo City, (1877).

| | 1877

"Sec. 182. Every person who shall wear, or carry upon his person any pistol, or other firearm, slungshot, false knuckles, bowie knife, dagger or any other dangerous or deadly weapon, is guilty of an offense, and liable to a fine in any sum not exceedin...

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The Revised Ordinances of Salt Lake City, Utah, Chapter XXVI, Misdemeanors, p. 283 Sec. 14 (1888)

| | 1888

Dangerous and Concealed Weapons. 

SEC. 14. Any person who shall carry any slingshot, or any concealed deadly weapon , without the permission of the mayor first had and obtained, shall, upon conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty d...

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An Act in relation to Crimes and Punishment, Ch. XXII, Title II, Sec. 14, in Acts, Resolutions and Memorials Passed at the Several Annual Sessions of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah 31 (Henry McEwan 1866).

| | 1865

"SEC. 14. If such oflender, at the timeof stuch robbery, is armed with a dangerous weapon, with intent, if resisted, to kill or maim the person robbed; or if, being so armed, he wound or strike the person robbed; or if lie have :lny conffederates aidin...

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An Act in relation to Crimes and Punishment, Ch. XXII, Title III, Sec. 48, in Acts, Resolutions and Memorials Passed at the Several Annual Sessions of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah 54 (Henry McEwan 1866).

| | 1865

"Sec. 48. If such offender, at the time of committing such burglary, is armed with a dangerous weapon, or so arm himself after having entered such dwelling house, or actually assault any person being lawfully therein; or have any confeder-ates present ...

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An Act in relation to Crimes and Punishment, Ch. XXII, Title VII, Sec. 102, in Acts, Resolutions and Memorials Passed at the Several Annual Sessions of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah 59 (Henry McEwan 1866).

| | 1865

"SEC. 102. If any person maliciously injure, deface or destroy any building or fixture attached thereto, or wilfully and maliciously injure, destroy or secrete any goods, chattels or valuable paper of another, or maliciously, prepare any dead fall, or ...

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An Ordinance Prohibiting the Sale of Arms, Ammunition, or Spiritous Liquors to the Indians, in Acts, Resolutions and Memorials Passed at the Several Annual Sessions of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah 63 (Henry McEwan 1866).

| | 1850

"Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the General Assembly of the State of Deseret: That if any person shall hereafter trade or give any guns, rifies,pistols or any other deadly weap- ons, ammunition or spirituous liquors to any Indian, without having a license, ...

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1917 Utah Laws 278, An Act . . . Forbidding the Ownership or Possession of Fire Arms or Other Deadly Weapon by an Unnaturalized Foreign Born Person within the State of Utah, ch. 95, § 1.

, | | 1917

It shall be unlawful for any unnaturalized foreign born person, to hunt, capture or kill any wild bird or animal, either game or otherwise, of any description, excepting in defense of the person, and it shall be unlawful for any such unnaturalized fore...

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1907 Utah Laws 50-51, An Act . . . Relating to Burglary in the First, Second and Third Degrees, Defining the Same, and the Penalties Therefor, ch. 52, § 1.

| | 1907

Every person who, in the night time, forcibly breaks and enters, or without force enters an open door, window or other aperture of any house, room, apartment . . . with intent to commit larceny or any felony by the use of nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gun...

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1905 Utah Laws 60, An Act to Prohibit the Salen of Firearms to Minors and the Carrying of Firearms by Minors, and Prescribing Penalties for Violation Thereof, ch. 52, §§ 1-2.

| | 1905

§ 1. Selling or giving firearms to minors under fourteen. Any person who sells, gives or disposes of, or offers to sell, give or dispose of any pistol, gun, target gun, or other firearm, to any person under the age of fourteen years, is guilty of ...

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1905 Utah Laws 197, An Act for the Protection of Fish, Game, and Birds . . . , ch. 118, § 30.

, , | | 1905

It shall be unlawful for any non-resident person or for resident who is not a citizen of the United States to kill any game, animals, birds or fish in this State, without first having procured the license to do so hereinafter provided for. Any non-resi...

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Act of March 17, 1903, ch. 116, § 24, Utah Laws 152, 155.

| | 1903

"24. Unlawful gun. It shall be unlawful and a misdemeanor for any person to use any gun larger than ten gauge while hunting for fowl or birds."

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1901 Utah Laws 76, An Act Relating to the Marketing of Explosives, Inflammable Substances or Dangerous Acids, Chemicals and Compounds for Storage or Transportation, and Providing Penalties for the Violation of This Act, ch. 77, § 1.

| | 1901

Penalty for delivering dangerous explosive for storage or transportation. That every person who knowingly leave with or delivers to another, or to any express or railway company or other common carrier, or to any warehouse or storehouse any package con...

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1901 Utah Laws 97-98, An Act Defining an Infernal Machine, and Prescribing Penalties for the Construction or Contrivance of the Same, or Having Such Machine in Possession, or Delivering Such Machine to Any Person . . . , ch. 96, §§ 1-3.

| | 1901

§ 1. Infernal machine defined. That an infernal machine is any box, package, contrivance or apparatus, containing or arranged with an explosive or acid or poisonous or inflammable substance, chemical, or compound, or knife, or loaded pistol or gun...

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1901 Utah Laws 139: 60.

| | 1901

To regulate or prevent the storage of gunpowder, tar, pitch, resin, coal oil, benzene, turpentine, nitroglycerine, petroleum, or any of the products thereof, and other combustible or explosive material, and the use of lights in stables, shops and other...

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Act of March 9, 1899, ch. 26, § 24, Utah Laws 38, 42-43.

| | 1898

CHAPTER 26.

FISH AND GAME.

AN ACT for the Protection of Fish, Game and Birds; for Appointment of State and County...

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1888 Utah Laws 166, An Act to Establish a Uniform System of County Governments, ch. 50, § 19, pt. 31.

| | 1888

To adopt such rules and regulations within their respective counties, except within municipal corporations, with regard to the keeping and storing of every kind of gun powder, [H]ercules powder, giant powder, or other combustible material, as the safet...

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Ordinances of Ogden City, Utah. To Which are Prefixed a List of the City Governments from 1869 to 1881, the Charter of the City and Amendments Page 98, Image 98 (1881) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1881

Ordinances [of the City of Ogden, Utah], § 38. Any person discharging any gun or pistol within the limits of the city, between the hours of sunset and sunrise, or on the Sabbath day (except in case of necessary defense of self, family or property,...

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Revised Ordinances and Resolutions of the City Council of Salt Lake City, in the Territory of Utah, with Congressional and Territorial Laws on Townsites and Great Salt Lake City Charter, and Amendments Page 161-162, Image 196-197 (1875) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1875

Ordinances of Salt Lake City, Relating to Gunpowder, Gun Cotton and Nitro-Glycerine, § 1. Be it ordained, by the City Council of Salt Lake City, that it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to keep, sell or give away, gunpowder, gun-cotto...

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