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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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    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.
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    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.
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    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
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    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 such
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    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.
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    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.
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    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 explosives
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    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 dollars
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    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 hire
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    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.
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    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.