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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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    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."
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.