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1899 Tenn. Session Laws 780

, | | 1899

Provided however, That it shall be lawful for any person to hunt quail or partridges in said counties with a gun, between the first day of November and the first day of January of each year. But it is further provided, that it shall not be lawful to hu...

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1890 Okla. Laws 495, art. 47

, , , | | 1890 Sec. 1. It shall be unlawful for any person in the Territory of Oklahoma to carry concealed on or about his person, saddle, or saddle bags, any pistol, revolver, bowie knife, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, sword cane, spear, metal knuckles, or any other kind o...

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1 Statutes of Ohio & Northwestern Territory 106 (Salmon P. Chase ed., 1833)

, | | 1790 SEC. 4. Be it enacted, That if any person shall presume to discharge or fire, or cause to be discharged or fired, any gun or other fire-arms at any mark or object, or upon any pretence whatever, unless he or she shall at the same time be with such gun or ...

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1936 Ariz. Sess. Laws 204, Game and Fish Preservation, § 1543.

| | 1936

It shall be unlawful for any person to take into the field or forest, or to have in his possession, while hunting wild animals or birds, any device designed to silence, muffle or minimize the report of any firearm, whether separated from or attached to...

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1933 Haw. Sess. Laws 38, An Act Regulating the Sale, Transfer, and Possession of Firearms and Ammunition, § 5.

, | | 1933

Any person who has procured a hunting license under the provisions of Sections 2028-2032, inclusive, of the Revised Laws of Hawaii 1925, as amended, shall, while actually engaged in hunting or while going to or from the place of hunting, be authorized ...

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1931 Colo. Sess. Laws 399, To Prohibit the Use of Aircraft to Hunt, Take, Pursue . . . Water Fowl . . . To Prohibit the Discharge of Firearms Therefrom . . ., ch. 97, § 2.

| | 1931

It shall be unlawful to discharge any gun, rifle, pistol, shot gun, or other firearm from any aircraft, airplane or airship while the same is in motion, with the intent or purpose to take, capture, kill or attempt to kill, capture or possess any migrat...

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1925 N.C. Sess. Laws 530, Pub. Local Laws, An Act to Protect Game and Fish in Transylvania County, ch. 460, § 4.

| | 1925

It shall be unlawful to trap for bear or to run or hunt deer with dogs or to use while hunting any gun having a “Maxim silencer” or any other device thereon that will muffle the report of such gun, nor shall any gun be used that does not pr...

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1924 Ga. Laws 283, An Act for the Protection of Game Birds in the County of Bartow, § 2.

| | 1924

. . . That any person who shall hunt, kill, or attempt to kill, any game bird or animal within the county limits of the County of Bartow, State of Georgia, by and with the use of an automatic, or repeating shot-gun, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, an...

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1923 Vt. Acts and Resolves 127, An Act to Prohibit the Use of Machine Guns and Automatic Rifles in Hunting, § 1.

| | 1923

A person engaged in hunting for game who uses, carries, or has in his possession a machine gun of any kind or description, or an automatic rifle of military type with a magazine capacity of over six cartridges, shall be fined not more than five hundred...

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1923 Pa. Laws 386, Unlawful Methods of Hunting

| | 1923

. . . It is unlawful to hunt for, or catch or take or kill or wound, or attempt to catch or take or kill or wound, game of any kind, excepting raccoons, through the use of what is commonly known as an automatic gun or an automatic firearm of any kind, ...

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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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1921 Fla. Laws 307, An Act to Protect the Birds and Wild Life of the County of Orange and State of Florida and to Prevent the Hunting of Same During the Closed Season, ch. 8781, § 2.

| | 1921

That any person carrying a gun in the woods, field, or on the water such as is generally used for hunting game or having in his or her possession such gun in the woods, fields, or in the water of Orange County during the closed season as prescribed by ...

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1921 N.M. Laws 57-58, An Act Providing for the Protection of Game and Fish and for Their Use and Development for Public Recreation and Food Supply . . . and Repealing Certain Other Provisions of Existing Laws, ch. 35, § 16.

| | 1921 No game shall be pursued, taken, wounded or killed in the night, or with a steel or hard pointed bullet or with any weapon other than an ordinary shoulder gun or pistol, and the use of high powered rifles in hunting and taking migratory game birds is here...

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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 Kan. Sess. Laws 294, §§ 4, 6.

| | 1921

§ 4. . . . No person shall use ferrets or employ any smoke gun or other device for forcing smoke or any asphyxiating or deadly gas or liquid into the holes, dens, runways or houses of any fur bearing animals . . . . § 6. . . . [N]o bird be pu...

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1920 N.J. Laws 67, An Act to Amend an Act Entitled, “An Act for the Protection of Certain Kinds of Birds, Game and Fish, to Regulate Their Method of Capture, and Provide Open and Close Seasons for Such Capture and Possession,” ch. 31, § 9.

| | 1920

It shall be unlawful to use in hunting fowl or animals of any kind any shotgun or rifle holding more than two cartridges at one time, or that may be fired more than twice without reloading, or to use any silencer on any gun rifle or firearm when huntin...

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1919 Me. Laws 235, Swivel, pivot and set gun added to prohibited devices; penalty for violation increased to $100 and costs and imprisonment for sixty days for possession, ch. 196, § 25

| | 1919

No person shall have in possession at any time when he is upon the wild lands, water or highways, or in the woods or fields of the state, or in any camp, lodge, or place of resort for hunters or fishermen, or in its immediate vicinity, any jacklight or...

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1919 Tex. Gen. Laws 297-98, An Act to Preserve, Propagate, Distribute, and Protect the Wild Game, Wild Birds, Wild Fowl of the State . . . , ch. 157, § 42.

| | 1919

It shall be unlawful for any citizen of this State to hunt outside of the county of his residence with a gun without first having procured from the Game, Fish and Oyster Commissioner or one of his deputies or from the County Clerk of the County in whic...

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