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Georgia

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Georgia. It supports research on the state’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from the colonial and territorial periods through statehood to the present.

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Oliver H. Prince, Digest of the Laws of the State of Georgia 407, 409 (1822)
(1806)
Required "All male white inhabitants ... from the age of eighteen to forty-five years ... to appear and work upon the several roads, creeks, causeways, water- passages, and bridges" and to "carry with him one good and sufficient gun or pair of pistols, and at least nine cartridges to fit the same, or twelve loads of powder and ball, or buck shot."
19 The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia 348-49 (Pt. 2, 1911)
(1791)
Required males between 16 and 50 to serve in the militia and provide their own arms. The arms requirement was "one rifle musket, fowling- piece or fusee fit for action, with a cartridge box or powder-horn answerable for that purpose with six cartridges or powder and lead equal thereto and three flints."
18 The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia 117-18 (1910)
(1755)
Requirement that "any Slave" have a ticket to use a firearm that must be renewed every month, subject to seizure.
18 The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia 190 (1910)
(1756)
"And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that it shall not be Lawful for any of the said Acadians to have or use any fire Arms or other Offensive Weapons otherwise than in his Masters Plantation or immediately under his Inspection on any Occasion, Account or pretence whatsoever."
1882-83 Ga. Laws 48-49
(1883)
Prohibited the concealed carrying of any "pistol, dirk, sword in a cane, spear, Bowie-knife, or any other kind of knives manufactured and sold for the purpose of offense and defense."
1886 Ga. Laws 26, 28
(1886)
Ch. 101: Required disclosure of guns, pistols, Bowie knives, and "such articles" for property tax purposes.
1886 Ga. Laws 17
(1886)
Ch. 54: Imposed $100 occupational tax on dealers of pistols, revolvers, dirks, Bowie knives, and "pistol or revolver cartridges."
1884 Ga. Laws 30
(1884)
Ch. 457: Required disclosure of guns, pistols, Bowie knives, and "such articles" for property tax purposes.
1884-85 Ga. Laws 85
(1885)
Permission to Drill for Troops Other than Volunteer Forces, etc., Title 7, § 17: Prohibited any body men other than the state volunteer forces, US troops, or police to associate themselves as a military company, or to drill or parade, without a license of the governor. The license may be revoked at any time. Violators fined not exceeding ten dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding six months, or both at the discretion of the court.
1888 Ga. Laws 22
(1888)
Ch. 123, § 2, pt. 17: Imposed $25 occupational tax on dealers of pistols, revolvers, dirks, or Bowie knives.
1884-85 Ga. Laws 23
(1884)
Ch. 52, § 2, pt. 18: Imposed $100 occupational tax on dealers of pistols, revolvers, dirks, or Bowie knives.
1882-83 Ga. Laws 48, reprinted in 6 Park's Annotated Code of the State of Georgia 232 (1915)
(1882)
§ 347 (§ 341) : Prohibited carrying concealed any kind of metal knucks, pistol, dirk, sword in a cane, spear, bowie-knife or any other kind of knives manufactured and sold for the purpose of offense and defense. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor.
1880-81 Ga. Laws 154
(1880)
An Act to make Penal the Intentional Pointing, or Aiming of Fire-arms at Another, whether Loaded or Unloaded, § 1: Prohibited pointing a gun or pistol, loaded or unloaded, at another. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor.
1878-79 Ga. Laws 142
(1879)
An Act for the Protection of Birds and Game in the County of Bibb, § 1: Prohibited hunting between April 1 and October 1 in the County of Bibb
1880 Ga. Laws 151, reprinted in 6 Park's Annotated Code of the State of Georgia 236 (1915)
(1880)
§ 349 (§343): Prohibited pointing a gun or pistol, loaded or unloaded, at another. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor.
1882-83 Ga. Laws 37
(1882)
Ch. 18: Imposed $25 occupational tax on dealers of pistols, revolvers, dirks, or Bowie knives.
1882 Ga. Laws 131
(1882)
An Act to Prevent the Discharge of Fire-arms on the Public Highways of this State and within Fifty Yards of the Same; to make such an act a Misdemeanor, and Prescribe a Punishment Therefor, § 1: Prohibited wantonly discharging a gun or pistol between the "dark and daylight" on any of the public highways or within fifty yards of such public highways.
Ga. Cont. of 1877, art. I, § 22
(1877)
Declared the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, but the legislature shall have the right to regulate the manner in which arms are borne.
1882 Ga. Code 1181-82
(1882)
Part V, Title I, Division IX, § 4528: Prohibited carrying any dirk, bowie knife, pistol, revolver, or any other deadly weapon in courts of justice, election grounds and precincts, places of public worship, and at any other public gathering. Part V, Title I, Division IX, § 4528(a): Any person who shall point a weapon at another shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
1873 Ga. Code 826
(1873)
§ 4580: Prohibited hunting any kind of game with gun or dogs, or both, on the day of the Sabbath. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor.
1876 Ga. Laws 112
(1876)
Ch. 128: Prohibited the transfer of any pistol, dirk, Bowie knife, or sword cane to a minor.
1873 Ga. Code 817-18
(1870)
Section 4527 prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, dirk, sword in a cane, spear, Bowie knife, or any other kind of knives manufactured and sold for the purpose of offense or defense. Section 4528 prohibited the carrying of any dirk, Bowie knife, pistol, or other deadly weapon to a court, election site, precinct, place of worship, or other public gathering site. Punishable by fine of $20-50 or imprisonment for 10-20 days.
Ga. Const. of 1868, art. I, § 14
(1868)
Provided that a well-regulated militia was necessary to the security of a free people, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. However, the legislature has the power to prescribe by law the manner in which arms may be worn.
1870 Ga. Laws 421
(1870)
Title XVI, no. 285, § 1 : Prohibiting carrying "any dirk, bowie-knife, pistol or revolver, or any kind of deadly weapon, to any court of justice, or any election ground or precinct, or any place of public worship, or any other public gathering in this State, except militia muster-grounds."
1867 Ga. Code 873
(1866)
§ 4443: Prohibited deliberately challenging or accepting a duel with a sword, pistol, or other deadly weapon. Violators fined not less than five hundred dollars and imprisoned for any time not exceeding six months.
1861 Ga. Code 858
(1861)
§4413: Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, dirk, sword-cane, spear, Bowie-knife, or any other kids of knives manufactured for offense or defense. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor
Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia Passed in Milledgeville at an Annual Session in November and December 1837, at 90-91 (1838)
(1837)
§§ 1-4: Prohibited any merchant, or "any other person or persons whatsoever," to sell, offer to sell, keep, or have on their person or elsewhere any Bowie knife or "any other kind of knives, manufactured and sold for the purpose of wearing, or carrying the same as arms of offence or defence," pistols, swords, sword canes, or spears. Exempted "such pistols as are known as horseman's pistols" from these restrictions. Punishable by a fine of up to $100-500 for the first offense and $500-1,000 for subsequent offenses.
1845 Ga. Laws 832
(1833)
Art. I, Sec. I, Pt. 41: Prohibition for "any free person of colour" to own, use, or carry any firearms.
1847 Ga. Laws 138
(1847)
An Act To Incorporate The Evergreen Cemetery Company Of Bonaventure, § 5: Prohibited shooting or discharging any gun or other firearms within the cemetery limits. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor.
The Minutes of the Senate Academicus of the State of Georgia, 1799-1842, at 86 (1810)
(1842)
Banning students from keeping any gun, pistol, Dagger, Dirk sword cane or any other offensive weapon on campus. Also banned students from possessing them out of the college in any case whatsoever.
1851-52 Ga. Acts 269
(1852)
No. 165: Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, dirk, sword in a cane, spear, Bowie knife, or any other kind of knives manufactured and sold for the purpose of offense or defense.
1860 Ga. Laws 56
(1860)
No. 63, § 1: Prohibited the sale or furnishing of any gun, pistol, Bowie knife, slungshot, sword cane, or other weapon to a "slave or free person of color." Punishable by fine up to $500 and imprisonment up to 6 months.
1837 Ga. Laws 619
(1831)
Required gun powder over five pounds to be transported with marks indicating the containers hold gunpowder. Violators shall have gunpowder seized and forfeited.
19 The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia 291, 296 (1911)
(1773)
"That every Person liable llable to ap to appear and bear arms at any Exercise Muster or Training hereby appointed Pursuant to the directions of this Act Shall constantly keep and bring with them to Such Muster Exercise or Training one Gun or Musket fit for Service one Catridge Box with at least Nine Catridges filled with Good Gun owder and Ball that shall fit his Piece a horn or Flask containing at least aQuarter of a Pound of Gun Powder a shot Pouch with half a pound of Bulletts..."
19 The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia 137-39 (1911)
(1770)
Required every white male inhabitant attending church or other places of divine worship to carry a gun or pair of pistols. Arms are required to be in good order and fit for service, along with at least six charges of gun-powder and ball. Violators fined ten shillings for each violation.
1777 Ga. Const. arts. 33-34
(1777)
Granted the governor title of captains general and commander-in-chief over all militia, military, and naval forces belonging to the state of Georgia. Also specified that commissions continue during good behavior.
1845 Ga. Laws 763
(1790)
Prohibited deer-hunting by fire-light and a gun not within one's own enclosure. Violators shall be fined not exceeding five pounds.
1821 Ga. Laws 593
(1816)
Div. 9, § 4: Prohibited challenging another, or accepting any such challenge, to duel with a sword, pistol, or other deadly weapon. Violators fined a sum of five hundred dollars and imprisoned at hard labour not less than three months nor more than one year.
1821 Ga. Laws 599
(1816)
Div. 10, § 19: Prohibited the carrying of any pistol, hanger, cutlass, bludgeon, or other offensive weapon with the intent to assault a person. Punishable by imprisonment with hard labor for a period of time to be determined by a jury.
19 The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia 104, 108 (Pt. 2, 1911)
(1778)
"every person liable to appear and bear Arms at any Muster, exercise or training hereby appointed , pursuant to the directions of this Act, shall constantly keep and bring with him, to such training , exercising or Muster, one good Gun, Bayonet, hanger , sword or hatchet , a Cartouch Box, twelve Cartridges a powder horn and half pound of Powder , with at least twenty four pounds of Lead, a Worm , pricker and four Flints each,"

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