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An Act Defining Crimes, Regulating Criminal Procedure and for Other Purposes, ch. 73, § 97, in 1890 Wyo. Sess. Laws 127, 140.

| | 1890

"SEC. 97. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, barter or give to any other person under the age of twenty-one years any pistol, dirk or bowie-knife, slung-shot, knucks or other deadly weapon that can be wor...

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Act of Feb. 28, 1925, ch. 163, §§ 44-45, Wyo. Sess. Laws 251, 259 (Mills Company, 1925).

| | 1925

"Other Organizations Parading With Arms.
        Section 44. It shall not be lawful for any body of men whatso­ever, other than the regularly organized National Guard or the troops of the United States, to ...

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Other Organizations Parading With Arms, §§ 44-45, Ch. 163, Session Laws of the State of Wyoming (1925).

| | 1925

"Other Organizations Parading With Arms.
              Section 44. It shall not be lawful for any body of men whatso­ ever, other than the regularly organized National Guard or the troops of the United S...

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1925 Wyo. Sess. Laws 110, An Act Prohibiting Persons not Citizens of the United States, from Possessing, Wearing or Carrying any Dangerous or Deadly Weapon. . . , ch. 106, § 1.

| | 1925

Every person not being a citizen of the United States, who shall own, possess, wear or carry any dirk, pistol, shot gun, rifle, or other fire arm, bowie knife, dagger, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon, shall upon conviction thereof, be adjudged ...

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1921 Wyo. Sess. Laws 101, An Act Providing for the Protection, Propagation, Preservation, and Distribution of the Game Animals, Birds, and Fish of this State . . . , ch. 83, § 62.

| | 1921

It shall be unlawful for any person to take, kill, wound or destroy any of the game fish of this State by the use of any revolver, pistol, shot gun, rifle or fire arms of any kind or nature. Any person convicted of a violation of any of the provisions ...

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1921 Wyo. Sess. Laws 112-13, An Act Providing for the Protection, Propagation, Preservation, and Distribution of the Game Animals, Birds, and Fish of this State . . . , ch. 83, § 97.

| | 1921

It shall be unlawful for any person to take into the game fields or forests of this State, or have in possession while in the game fields or forests of this State, or to have in possession while out for the purpose of hunting the game animals or game b...

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1919 Wyo. Sess. Laws 17, An Act . . . Relating to the Storage of Explosives, ch. 17, § 1.

| | 1919

. . . It shall be unlawful for any person or company to store any gunpowder or any other explosive material at a less distance than one thousand feet from any house or habitation, when more than fifty pounds are at the same place; but it shall be unlaw...

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1915 Wyo. Sess. Laws 91, An Act Relating to the Preservation of the Game Animals, Game Birds, and Fish of the State of Wyoming . . . , ch. 91, § 13.

, , | | 1915

There is hereby created a special gun and fish license for aliens. No person, not a bona fide citizen of the United States, shall own or have in his possession, in the State of Wyoming, any gun, pistol or other firearm, or any fishing tackle, without f...

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1913 Wyo. Sess. Laws 165, An Act . . . Relating to the Duties of the State Game Warden, Assistant and Deputy Game Wardens, and the Preservation of the Game Animals and Game Birds and Fish of the State of Wyoming . . . , ch. 121, § 38.

, , | | 1913

That Section 20 . . . be . . . amended . . . § 20. Any person who is not a bona fide elector of this state, or the child or legal ward of a bona fide elector of this state, or a soldier or sailor who is a bona fide elector of the United States, an...

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Revised Ordinances and Charter of the City of Laramie, Wyo., with Constitutional Provisions and Legislative Enactments Governing the Same Page 200-201, Image 206-207 (1900) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1900

[Ordinances of Laramie, Gunpowder and Explosives, § 12. No person shall keep at his place of business or elsewhere within this city, a greater quantity of gunpowder, gun-cotton, nitro-glycerine, dynamite, giant powder or other explosives than twen...

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Revised Ordinances and Charter of the City of Laramie, Wyo., with Constitutional Provisions and Legislative Enactments Governing the Same Page 89, Image 95 (900) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1900

City of Laramie. Sling Shots. § 3. Hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person in the City of Laramie to keep, carry or bear upon the person any sling, catapult, spring or air gun, or nigger shooter, used for the hurling of missiles or stones, a...

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1899 Wyo. Sess. Laws 32-33, An Act for the Better Protection of the Game and Fish of this State . . . , ch. 19, § 14.

, , | | 1899

Any person who is a bona fide citizen of the State of Wyoming shall, upon payment of one dollar to any Justice of the Peace of the county in which he resides, be entitled to receive from said Justice of the Peace, a gun license, which license shall per...

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A. McMicken, City Attorney, The Revised Ordinances of the City of Rawlins, Carbon County, Wyoming Page 96-97, Image 97-98 (1893) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1893

Revised Ordinances of the City of Rawlins, [Precautionary Regulations,] § 13. That no person shall keep at his place of business or elsewhere within the city a greater quantity of gun powder or gun cotton than fifty pounds at one time, and the sam...

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A. McMicken, City Attorney, The Revised Ordinances of the City of Rawlins, Carbon County, Wyoming Page 131-132; Image 132-133 (1893) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1893

Revised Ordinances of the City of Rawlins, Article VII, Carrying Firearms and Lethal Weapons, § 1. It shall be unlawful for any person in said city to keep or bear upon the person any pistol, revolver, knife, slungshot, bludgeon or other lethal we...

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A. McMicken, The Revised Ordinances of the City of Rawlins, Carbon County, Wyoming Page 115-116, Image 116-117 (1893) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1893

[Ordinances of the] City of Rawlins, Article II, Protection of Persons and Property, § 1. If any person shall within this city fire or discharge any cannon, gun, fowling piece, pistol or firearms of any description, or fire, explode, or set off an...

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1884 Wyo. Sess. Laws 114, An Act to Amend Sections of an Act Entitled “An Act to Preserve the Public Peace by Preventing the Display of Knives and Other Deadly Weapons in the Presence of One or More Persons . . . , ch. 67, § 1.

| | 1884

Whoever shall, in the presence of one or more persons, exhibit any kind of fire-arms, bowie-knife, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, or other deadly weapon, in a rude, angry or threatening manner not necessary to the defense of his person, family or property, ...

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1879 Wyo. Sess. Laws 97, An Act to Prevent the Use of Firearms from Railroad Cars, and Provide for the Punishment Thereof, ch. 43, § 1.

| | 1879

It shall be unlawful for any person in this territory to fire any rifle, revolver, or other fire arm of any description whatever, from any window, door, or other part of any railroad car or train, engine or tender, or along the line of railroad during ...

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