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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.

  • Legal sources: statutes and session laws, administrative code, attorney general opinions, appellate decisions, and select municipal ordinances.
  • Historical materials: newspapers, photographs, maps, catalogs, manufacturing, militia, and agricultural records, and oral histories tied to Georgia people and places.
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    1910 Ga. Laws 137
    (1910)
    Shooting at Houses, Prohibited, § 1: Prohibited shooting at, toward, or into any occupied dwelling house with any gun, pistol, rifle, or any other deadly firearm.
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    1905 Ga. Laws 86
    (1905)
    Rocking or Shooting at or in Cars, § 1: Prohibited throwing rocks or other missiles at, towards, or into any passenger train on a railroad. Also Prohibited shooting any gun, pistol, or firearms of any kind towards or into any such car or while in any such car/ Violators imprisoned one to five years
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    1897 Ga. Laws 96-97
    (1897)
    An Act to make it Unlawful for any Person to Fire any Pistol, Gun or other Firearm on any Excursion Train or at any Picnic, Except in his or her Defense, and to Prescribe a Penalty for Violating Same, and for other Purposes, § 1: Prohibited discharging any pistol, gun, or other firearm while on any excursion train or at any picnic.
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    3 Ga. Code 147 (1896)
    (1892)
    § 511: Prohibited throwing rocks or other missiles at, towards, or into a passenger train on a railroad. Also prohibited shooting any gun, pistol, or firearms of any kind at, towards, or into any such car. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor.
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    1898 Ga. Laws 107-08
    (1898)
    An Act to Make it Unlawful for any Person to Wilfully and Wantonly Fire Off or Discharge any Loaded Gun or Pistol on Sunday, Except in Defense of Person or Property, § 1: Prohibited wilfully or wantonly firing off or discharging any loaded gun or pistol on Sunday.
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    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.
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    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.
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    18 The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia 294-95 (1910)
    (1759)
    unlawful to fire "any great gun or shall arm in the town or harbour of Savannah after Sun Set without leave or permission from the Governor." Margin note says "small arm."