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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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    1827 N.H. Laws 231-32
    (1827)
    Required local tax collectors to collect assessed taxes, and provide advance notice before seizing property for nonpayment, and authorized distraint and public auction of a delinquent taxpayer’s goods after specified notice periods and procedures if taxes remain unpaid.
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    A Municipal Register of the City of Concord 39 (1857)
    (1853)
    Prohibited the discharge of firearms in the city on the first day of the week
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    1824 N.H. Laws 191-92
    (1824)
    An Act to Establish a System of Police in the Town of Portsmouth, and for Other Purposes, ch. 34, § 4: That if any person or persons shall within the compact part of the town of Portsmouth, that is to say, within one mile of the courthouse, fire or discharge any cannon, gun, pistol or other fire arms, or beat any drum, (except by command of a military officer, having authority therefor) or fire or discharge any rockets, squibs, crackers, or any preparation of gunpowder, (except by the permission of the police officers, or of a major part of them first had in writing) . . . every such person, for every such act shall be taken and deemed to be an offender against the police of Portsmouth, and shall be liable to the penalties hereinafter expressed.
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    1820 N.H. Laws 907
    (1820)
    An Act to Provide for the Appointment of Inspectors and Regulating the Manufacture of Gunpowder, ch. 24, §§ 1-9: Authorized the creation of "inspector of gunpowder" for public powder magazines and powder manufactories. Required gun powder manufactured in the state to be composed of certain qty/quality of materials. Authorized inspection of gunpowder. Bans sale of gunpowder not up to standards.
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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).
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    1811 N.H. Laws 74
    (1811)
    An Act To Regulate The Keeping And Selling, And Transporting of Gunpowder, chap. 61, §5: Banned sale or offer for sale of gunpowder in the night time, between sunsetting and sunrising; banned also dealing out any gunpowder at night.
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    1856 N.H. Laws 1781-82
    (1856)
    Ch. 1870: Resolved that possession of Bowie-knives and revolvers was necessary for the right to freedom of speech, due to attacks on abolitionists in the South.
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    1820 N.H. Laws 861
    (1820)
    An Act for Forming, Arranging and Regulating the Militia, § 44, art. 15: If any non-commissioned officer or private shall come on to any parade with his musket, rifle, or pistol loaded with powder and ball, slugs or shot, he shall for such offence forfeit not less than two nor more than ten dollars[.]
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    1867 N.H. Gen. Stat. 206
    (1854)
    Ch. 98, §§ 1-4: Provided the board of firewards the ability to regulate the import/export of Gunpowder. Also prohibited the storage of gunpowder in quantities exceeding 25 pounds