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TREASON ACT 1842 - SECT 2

Punishment for discharging or aiming firearms, or throwing or using any offensive matter or weapon, with intent to injure or alarm Her Majesty.

2. If any person shall wilfully discharge or attempt to discharge or point,
aim, or present at or near to the person of the Queen, any gun, pistol, or any
other description of fire-arms or of other arms whatsoever, whether the same
shall or shall not contain any explosive or destructive material, or shall
discharge or cause to be discharged, or attempt to discharge or cause to be
discharged, any explosive substance or material near to the person of the
Queen, or if any person shall wilfully strike or strike at, or attempt to
strike or to strike at, the person of the Queen, with any offensive weapon, or
in any other manner whatsoever, or if any person shall wilfully throw or
attempt to throw any substance, matter, or thing whatsoever at or upon the
person of the Queen, with intent in any of the cases aforesaid to injure the
person of the Queen, or with intent in any of the cases aforesaid to break the
public peace, or whereby the public peace may be endangered, or with intent in
any of the cases aforesaid to alarm Her Majesty, or if any person shall, near
to the person of the Queen, wilfully produce or have any gun, pistol, or any
other description of fire-arms or other arms whatsoever, or any explosive,
destructive, or dangerous matter or thing whatsoever, with intent to use the
same to injure the person of the Queen, or to alarm Her Majesty, every such
person so offending shall be guilty of a high misdemeanor, and being convicted
thereof in due course of law, shall be liable, at the discretion of the court
before which the said person shall be so convicted, to be transported beyond
the seas for the term of seven years, or to be imprisoned, ....

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