Georgia
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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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Item type:Item, A Compilation of the Acts of the Legislature Incorporating the City of Macon, Georgia 45-46 (S. Rose & Co. 1862)(1862)Required gunpowder to be stored in a public magazine, limited retail storage, authorized seizure of improperly stored powder, established a bonded magazine keeper, set storage fees, and required recordkeeping, inspections, and public auction of unclaimed powder to recover fees.Item type:Item, A Compilation of the Acts of the Legislature Incorporating the City of Macon, Georgia 47 (S. Rose & Co. 1862)(1862)Nuisances § 5: It shall not be lawful for any person to fire a gun, pistol, or any other fire arms, within§three hundred yards of any house, except in cases of military parade; nor shall any person burn rockets, crackers, or any kind of fire works within the limits of the city. Any person so offending shall be fined in§a sum not exceeding twenty dollars."Item type:Item, 1875 Ga. Laws 189(1875)An Act to Prevent the Shooting or Firing of Guns or Pistols in the Village of Vineville, in the County of Bibb, ch. 181, § 1: Prohibited the discharge, firing, shooting of any gun or pistol within three hundred yards of any public road through the village of Vineville.Item type:Item, 1888 Ga. Laws 261(1888)Ch. 103: Required disclosure of guns, pistols, Bowie knives, and "such articles" for property tax purposes.Item type:Item, A Compilation of the Acts of the Legislature Incorporating the City of Macon, Georgia 60 (S. Rose & Co. 1862)(1862)Ordinance Against Carrying Deadly Weapons: That any white person who shall violate the Statutes of the State of Georgia now in force, relative to carrying about his or her person any deadly weapon mentioned in said Statutes, within the limits of the City of Macon, shall, for each offence, on proof thereof before the Mayor of said city, be fined by said Mayor in a sum of not less than fifty, nor more than one hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the common Jail of Bibb county or the Guard House of said city, for any period not exceeding one month, or both fined and imprisoned as aforesaid, in the discretion of the Mayor. And any slave or free person of color who shall carry about his or her person any deadly weapon of any description-such as are manufactured for purposes of offence or defence-within the limits of said city, shall be punished by whipping and imprisonment in the Guard House of said city, at the discretion of the Mayor-the whipping not to exceed seventy-five lashes, and the imprisonment not to exceed thirty days."Item type:Item, 1866 Ga. Laws 27-28(1866)An Act to Authorize the Justices of the Inferior Courts of Camden, Glynn and Effingham Counties to Levy a Special Tax for County Purposes, and to regulate the same, §§ 3-4: Allowed these three counties to collect a tax of one dollar per gun or pistol, musket, or rifle over the number of three owned or kept on any plantation.Item type:Item, 1889 Ga. Laws 993(1889)Ch. 640: Required disclosure of guns, pistols, Bowie knives, and "such articles" for property tax purposes.Item type:Item, The Code of the City of Atlanta 163-64 (William T. Newman ed., 1879)(1879)Ch. 42-Powder, §§ 459-464: Prohibited merchants from keep more than one keg of powder at a time in any house. Powder shall be kept in a tin can. Violators fined not exceeding one hundred dollars or imprisoned not exceeding thirty days.Item type:Item, The Code of the City of Atlanta 164 (William T. Newman ed., 1879)(1879)Prohibited storing more than one keg of gunpowder in any building (except public warehouses), requiring it to be kept in a tin container. Selling gunpowder required an annual city license, approval by the General Council, support from three neighboring residents, and a $1,000 bond. The Council could deny licenses to unqualified applicants, and licensed sellers had to display a sign stating they were licensed to sell powder. Violations carried fines and possible imprisonment. The ordinance also prohibited firing rockets, firecrackers, or other fireworks within city limits without the Mayor's written permission.Item type:Item, 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."Item type:Item, 1886 Ga. Laws 26, 28(1886)Ch. 101: Required disclosure of guns, pistols, Bowie knives, and "such articles" for property tax purposes.Item type:Item, 1886 Ga. Laws 17(1886)Ch. 54: Imposed $100 occupational tax on dealers of pistols, revolvers, dirks, Bowie knives, and "pistol or revolver cartridges."Item type:Item, 1884 Ga. Laws 30(1884)Ch. 457: Required disclosure of guns, pistols, Bowie knives, and "such articles" for property tax purposes.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 1888 Ga. Laws 22(1888)Ch. 123, § 2, pt. 17: Imposed $25 occupational tax on dealers of pistols, revolvers, dirks, or Bowie knives.Item type:Item, 1884-85 Ga. Laws 23(1884)Ch. 52, § 2, pt. 18: Imposed $100 occupational tax on dealers of pistols, revolvers, dirks, or Bowie knives.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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 BibbItem type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 1882-83 Ga. Laws 37(1882)Ch. 18: Imposed $25 occupational tax on dealers of pistols, revolvers, dirks, or Bowie knives.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 1876 Ga. Laws 112(1876)Ch. 128: Prohibited the transfer of any pistol, dirk, Bowie knife, or sword cane to a minor.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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."Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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 misdemeanorItem type:Item, 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.