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West Virginia

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to West Virginia. It supports research on the state’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from Virginia statehood partition (1863) to the present, with relevant antecedents in pre-1863 Virginia.

  • Legal sources: statutes and session laws, administrative code, attorney general opinions, appellate decisions, and select municipal ordinances.
  • Historical materials: newspapers, photographs, maps, catalogs, frontier, Civil War, mining and industrial records, law-enforcement collections, and oral histories tied to West Virginia 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,
    1909 W. Va. Acts 59
    (1909)
    Ch. 2, art. 4, § 7: [T]o regulate or prohibit the keeping of gun powder and other combustible or dangerous articles[.]
  • Item type:Item,
    W.Va. Acts 14, 24.
    (1899)
    Act of Feb 16, 1899, ch. 4, § 28: To regulate the keeping of gun powder and other inflammable or dangerous substances; to provide for the regular building of houses or other structures
  • Item type:Item,
    1901 W. Va. Acts 314, 320-21
    (1901)
    Act of Jan. 24, 1901, ch. 144, § 18: To regulate the keeping of gun powder and other inflammable or dangerous substances; to provide in or near the city places of burial of the dead, and to regulate the interment therein