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New Hampshire

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to New Hampshire. It supports research on the state’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from the colonial and provincial periods through statehood to the present.

  • Legal sources: statutes and session laws, administrative rules, attorney general opinions, appellate decisions, and select municipal ordinances.
  • Historical materials: newspapers, photographs, maps, catalogs, militia and manufacturing records (e.g., armsmaking and machine-tool industries), and oral histories tied to New Hampshire people and places.
  • Research outputs: technical reports, academic studies, training manuals, and curated datasets relevant to the state.

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    1793 N.H. Laws 464-65
    (1793)
    An Act to Prevent the Keeping of Large Quantities of Gun-Powder in Private Houses in Portsmouth, and for Appointing a Keeper of the Magazine Belonging to Said Town: That if any person or persons, shall keep in any dwelling-house, store or other building on land, within the limits of said Portsmouth, except the magazine aforesaid, more than ten pounds of gun-powder at any one time, which ten pounds shall be kept in a tin canister, properly secured for the purpose, such person or persons shall forfeit the powder so kept to the firewards of said Portsmouth to be laid out by them in purchasing such utensils as they may judge proper for the extinguishing of the fire;
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    1825 N.H. Laws 73-4
    (1825)
    An Act to Regulate the Keeping and Selling, and Transporting of Gunpowder, § 2: Requiring storage of less than 75 pounds of gunpowder in tin cannister or other noncombustible vessel(s).