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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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    1888 Ga. Laws 261
    (1888)
    Ch. 103: Required disclosure of guns, pistols, Bowie knives, and "such articles" for property tax purposes.
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    1889 Ga. Laws 993
    (1889)
    Ch. 640: Required disclosure of guns, pistols, Bowie knives, and "such articles" for property tax purposes.
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    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."
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    1886 Ga. Laws 26, 28
    (1886)
    Ch. 101: Required disclosure of guns, pistols, Bowie knives, and "such articles" for property tax purposes.
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    1886 Ga. Laws 17
    (1886)
    Ch. 54: Imposed $100 occupational tax on dealers of pistols, revolvers, dirks, Bowie knives, and "pistol or revolver cartridges."
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    1884 Ga. Laws 30
    (1884)
    Ch. 457: Required disclosure of guns, pistols, Bowie knives, and "such articles" for property tax purposes.
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    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.
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    1888 Ga. Laws 22
    (1888)
    Ch. 123, § 2, pt. 17: Imposed $25 occupational tax on dealers of pistols, revolvers, dirks, or Bowie knives.
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    1884-85 Ga. Laws 23
    (1884)
    Ch. 52, § 2, pt. 18: Imposed $100 occupational tax on dealers of pistols, revolvers, dirks, or Bowie knives.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    1882-83 Ga. Laws 37
    (1882)
    Ch. 18: Imposed $25 occupational tax on dealers of pistols, revolvers, dirks, or Bowie knives.
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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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    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.