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1850* Laws of Beloit College, ch. 4, § 2.

, | , | 1850

"...Therefore, no student shall be allowed to have in his room, spirituous, vinous or malt liquor; to play at cards, dice, or any similar game; to use or keep upon the College premises, fire-arms, or gunpowder; to attend assemblies for dancing or theat...

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Ch. 6—Miscellaneous Ordinances, Art. 7—Fire Arms, Fire Works And Cannons, §§ 258-261 in The Municipal Code of Berlin (1890).

| | 1890

         "Sec. 258. Any person who shall fire or discharge any gun, pistol, fowling piece, or other fire arm, within the limits of the City of Berlin except in the necessary defense of his person or property, shall pay a fine of not less than one ...

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Chapter 6—Miscellaneous Ordinances, Article 26—Concealed Weapons, §§ 483-468 in The Municipal Code of Berlin (1890).

, , | | 1890

        "Sec. 483. It shall be unlawful for any person, within the limits of the City of Berlin, to carry or wear under his clothes, or concealed about his person, any pistol, colt or slung shot, cross knuckles, or knuckles of lead, brass or other ...

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How Firearms May Be Used and what Quantity of Gun Powder May Be Kept, Ordinances of the City of Kenosha, Ordinance no. 8, §1 & §5 (1858).

, | | 1858

"Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the common council of the city of Kenosha: That no person shall fire or discharge any cannon, rifle, gun, pistol, or fire arms of any description, or fire, explode, or set off any squib, cracker, or other thing containing pow...

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Charles H. Hamilton, ed., The General Ordinances of the City of Milwaukee to January 1, 1896: With Amendments Thereto and an Appendix (Milwaukee, WI: E. Keough, 1896), pp.692-93, Sec. 25

| | 1896

Chapter XX. Misdemeanors.

Section 25.  It shall be unlawful for any person except policemen, regular or special, or any officer authorized to serve process, to carry or wear concealed about his person, any pistol or colt, slung-shot, ...

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1872 Wis. Sess. Laws 17, ch. 7, § 1, An Act to prohibit and prevent the carrying of concealed weapons.

| | 1872

SECTION 1. If any person shall go armed with a concealed dirk, dagger, sword, pistol, or pistols, revolver, slung-shot, brass knuckles, or other offensive and dangerous weapon, he shall, on conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and s...

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1931-1933 Wis. Sess. Laws 778, An Act . . . Relating to the Sale, Possession, Transportation and Use of Machine Guns and Other Weapons in Certain Cases, and Providing a Penalty, ch. 359, § 1.

| | 1933

No person shall sell, possess, use or transport any machine gun or other full automatic firearm, nor shall any person sell, possess, use or transport any bomb, hand grenade, projectile, shell or other container of any kind or character into which tear ...

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1931-1933 Wis. Sess. Laws 245-47, An Act . . .Relating to Machine Guns and to Make Uniform the Law with Reference Thereto, ch. 76, § 1, pt. 164.01 to 164.06.

| | 1933

164.01 Definitions (a) “Machine gun” applies to and includes a weapon of any description by whatever name known from which more than two shots or bullets may be discharged by a single function of the firing device. . . 164.02 Use of Machine...

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1928-1929 Wis. Sess. Laws 157, An Act to Create . . . the Statutes, Relating to Machine Guns and Providing a Penalty, ch. 132, § 1.

| | 1929

Any person who shall own, use or have in his possession a machine gun shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a term the minimum of which shall be one year and the maximum fifteen years. Nothing in this section shall be construed as p...

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Wisconsin Statutes 1927 9th Edition Vol. 1, Pages 1244 to 2455 Page 2285, Image 1042 (Madison, 1898) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1925

Use of Firearms, etc., Near Park, etc. § 340.61. Any person who shall discharge or cause the discharge of any missile from any firearm, slung shot, bow and arrow or other weapon, within forty rods of any public park, square or enclosure owned or c...

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1921 Wis. Sess. Laws 870, An Act . . . Relating to Wild Animals,ch. 530, § 1.

| | 1921

(29.22)(1) No person shall hunt game with any means other than the use of a gun held at arm’s length and discharged from the shoulder; or place, spread or set any net, pitfall, spring gun, pivot gun, swivel gun, or other similar contrivance for t...

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Act of May 31, 1919, ch. 261, §§ 1-2, Wis. Sess. Laws 281, 281-82.

, | | 1919

"CHAPTER 261.

AN ACT to create subdivision (13a) of section 776 of the statutes, relating to powers of town meetings.

The people of the State of Wisco...

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1917 Wis. Sess. Laws 1243-44, An Act to Repeal Sections . . . to Create a New Chapter to Be Numbered 29 . . . Relating to Wild Animals, and the Regulation of the Enjoyment, Disposition and Conservation Thereof, Prescribing Penalties, and Creating a Conservation Fund, ch. 668, § 3, pt. 29.57 (4).

| | 1917

(4) Absolute Protection. No owner of lands embraced within any such wild life refuge, and no other person whatever, shall hunt or trap within the boundaries of any wild life refuge, state park, or state fish hatchery lands; nor have in his possession o...

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1913 Wis. Sess. Laws 655, An Act. . . Relating to the Hunting and Shipping of Birds and Deer, ch. 578, § 1.

| | 1913

. . . and it shall also be unlawful for any person carrying or being in possession of a gun to run or use a pointer or setter dog or dogs in the field, or upon lands frequented by or upon which game birds may be found between the first day of August an...

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1911 Wis. Sess. Laws 92, An Act to Create Section 4410m of the Statutes, Relating to Burglary with Explosives, ch. 89, § 1.

| | 1911

§ 1. . . Section 4410m. 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 nitroglycerine, dy...

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1911 Wis. Sess. Laws 227-28, An Act . . . Relating to the Regulation of the Manufacture and Storage of Gunpowder and Black Blasting Powder, and Providing a Penalty, ch. 223, § 1.

| | 1911

§ 1. . . § 4393a-1. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to manufacture gunpowder or black blasting powder in any quantity whatsoever within the corporate limits of any city or village or within one hundred rods of any oc...

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Charter and Ordinances of the City of Superior; Also Harbor Act, Municipal Court Act, Rules of the Common Council and Board of Education Page 390, Image 481 (1896) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1896

Ordinances of the City of Superior, Carrying Concealed Weapons, § 18. It shall be unlawful for any person, other than a policeman or other officer authorized to maintain the peace or to serve process, to carry or wear any pistol, sling-shot, knuck...

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Charter and Ordinances of the City of La Crosse, with the Rules of the Common Council. Page 177, Image 180 (La Crosse, 1888) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1888

Ordinances of the City of La Crosse, An Ordinance to Provide for the Government and Good Order of the City of La Crosse, for the suppression of vice and immorality, and the prevention of Crime. City Ordinances. § 19. It shall be unlawful for any p...

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Charter and Ordinances of the City of La Crosse, with the Rules of the Common Council Page 176, Image 179 (1888) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1888

An Ordinance to Provide for the Government and Good Order of the City of La Crosse, for the suppression of vice and immorality, and the prevention of Crime,] § 15. It shall be unlawful for any person other than a policeman or other officer authori...

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Charter and Ordinances of the City of La Crosse, with the Rules of the Common Council Page 202, Image 205 (1888) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1888

An Ordinance in Relation to the Discharge of Firearms and firecrackers and to the use and exhibition of fireworks, § 1. No person shall fire or discharge any cannon, gun, fowling piece, pistol or firearms of any description, or fire, explode or se...

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Charter and Ordinances of the City of La Crosse, with the Rules of the Common Council Page 25-26, Image 28-89 (1888) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1888

The common council has power. . . Pt. 36. To regulate or prohibit the carrying or wearing by any person, any pistol, slung-shot, knuckles, bowie knife, dirk or any other dangerous weapon, and to provide for the confiscation and sale of such weapons.Read More

Charter and Ordinances of the City of La Crosse, with the Rules of the Common Council Page 239-242, Image 242-245 (1888) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1888

Ordinances of La Crosse, An Ordinance to Provide for Licensing Vendors of Gunpowder and Other Explosive Substances and to Regulate the Storing, Keeping and Conveying of all Dangerous and Explosive Materials and Substances within the City of La Crosse, ...

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