An Act to Prohibit the Sale to Any Person Under Sixteen Years of Age of Deadly Weapons, Gunpowder, and Explosive Substances, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, no. 124, § 1, 1881 Pa. Laws 111, 111–112 (Lane S. Hart).
“No. 124.
AN ACT
To prohibit the sale to any person under sixteen years of age of deadly weapons, gunpowder and explosive substances, in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That any person, who shall knowingly and willfully sell or cause to be sold, to any person under sixteen years of age, any cannon, revolver, pistol or other such deadly weapon, or who shall knowingly and willfully sell or cause to be sold to any such minor, any imitation or toy cannon, revolver or pistol so made, constructed or arranged as to be capable of being loaded with gunpowder or other explosive substance, cartridges, shot, slugs or balls, and being exploded, fired off and discharged, and thereby become a dangerous or deadly weapon, or who shall knowingly and willfully sell or cause to be sold to any such minor any cartridge, gunpowder or other dangerous and explosive substance, shall, in every such case, be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding three hundred dollars .
APPROVED—The 10th day of June, A. D. 1881.
HENRY M. HOYT.”
Laws of the General Assembly of the State of Pennsylvania, Passed at the Session of 1881, in the One Hundred and Fifth Year of Independence, Together with a Proclamation by the Governor, Declaring that He Has Filed Certain Bills in the Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth with His Objections Thereto, and a List of Charters of Corporations Organized Under [the] General Corporation Act of April 29, 1874, and the Supplements Thereto (Harrisburg, PA: Lane S. Hart, State Printer, 1881), 111–12. Act Number 124—An Act to Prohibit the Sale to Any Person Under Sixteen Years of Age of Deadly Weapons, Gunpowder, and Explosive Substances, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, § 1. Approved June 10, 1881.