New Hampshire
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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.
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Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 1941 N.H. Laws 48-49(1941)Ch. 46, § 15: No organization, society, club, post, order, league or other combination of persons, or civil group, or any members thereof, are authorized to assume any semblance of military organization or character by bearing or possessing rifles, pistols, sabres, clubs, or military weapons of any kind, or wearing a military uniform of any kind.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 weekItem 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 representationItem 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.Item type:Item, 1923 N.H. Laws 138-141(1923)Provided that sections 1-13 of the act should not apply to antique pistols or revolvers used as suchItem type:Item, 1917 N.H. Laws 727-30(1917)An Act for the Regulation of the Sale and Use of Explosives and Firearms, ch. 185, § 2: No such licensed person shall sell or deliver firearms to any person not a citizen of the United States, unless he shall have legally declared his intention of becoming a citizen, or any such explosive material or compound to any person, except upon presentation of a permit such as is hereinafter provided for, nor unless satisfied that the same is to be used for a lawful purpose.Item type:Item, 1915 N.H. Laws 180-81(1915)An Act to Revise and Amend the Fish and Game Laws, ch. 133, pt. 2, § 18: Prohibited the setting of a spring gun. Punished by a fine of $50-500.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 1907 N.H. Laws 142(1907)An Act Relating to the Committing of Burglary with Explosives, ch. 146, §§ 1-4: Provided that any person who breaks and enters a building with gunpowder, nitroglycerine, dynamite, or other explosives and commits burglary will be deemed guilty of burglary with explosivesItem type:Item, 1891 N.H. Pub. Stat. 713(1883)Ch. 265, § 4: If any person shall have in his possession a toy pistol, toy revolver, or other toy firearms, for the explosion of percussion caps or blank cartridges, with intent to sell the same, or shall sell, or offer to sell or to give away the same, he shall be fined not more than fifty dollarsItem type:Item, 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).Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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[.]Item type:Item, 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 poundsItem type:Item, 1913 N.H. Laws 639(1913)An Act to Regulate the Transportation of Dynamite, Gunpowder and Explosives, ch. 128, § 1: It shall be unlawful to transport, carry, or convey from one place in this state to another place in this state, any dynamite, gunpowder, or other explosive on any vessel or vehicle of any description operated by a common carrier, which vessel or vehicle is carrying passengers for hireItem type:Item, 1891 N.H. Pub. Stat. 332(1891)Ch. 117, § 7: Regulated the sale of gunpowder less than twenty-five pounds and sales in the night with a fine of not more than five dollars.Item type:Item, 1905 N.H. Laws 515(1905)An Act to Prohibit the Use of Swivel and Punt Guns, ch. 98, § 1: IF any person shall, at any time, within this state, hunt, pursue, shoot at, or kill any game bird, as defined by section 34 of chapter 79 of the laws of 1901, with any punt gun swivel gun, or other gun not fired from the shoulder, or of larger bore than ten gauge, he shall be fined not more than ten dollars for each offense and shall forfeit all guns and implements with which the offense was committed.