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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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  • Item type:Item,
    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
  • Item type:Item,
    The Charter: With Its Amendments and the General Ordinances of the City of Dover 32 (1870)
    (1870)
    Ch. 252, § 5: Prohibited the discharge of any cannon, gun, pistol, or other fire-arm.
  • Item type:Item,
    A Municipal Register of the City of Concord 74 (1868)
    (1868)
    No person shall discharge any gun or fire-arms within, on, or at, any bridge or building belonging to the city, or in any way damage the same, or any fence or other property belonging to the city, or write upon, cut out, or make any obscene image or representation
  • Item type:Item,
    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.