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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.
  • Research outputs: technical reports, academic studies, training manuals, and curated datasets relevant to the state.

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    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."
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    2 Backgrounds of Selective Service, Part 4: Georgia Enactments 60-61 (1947)
    (1765)
    Required anyone obliged to bear arms under militia service to refuse to fire his gun not exceeding six times each muster day, or shall refuse to do his duty, obey the lawful commands of his officer, or being drunk at the time of muster. Violators fined up to ten shillings Sterling.