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North Dakota

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to North Dakota. It supports research on the state’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from the territorial period through statehood to the present.

  • Legal sources: statutes and session laws, administrative code, attorney general opinions, appellate decisions, and select municipal ordinances.
  • Historical materials: newspapers, photographs, maps, catalogs, fur trade and frontier records, railroad and homesteading archives, energy and agricultural collections, and oral histories tied to North Dakota people and places.
  • Research outputs: technical reports, academic studies, training manuals, and curated datasets relevant to the state.

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    1877 Dakota Terr. Rev. Codes 798
    (1877)
    Penal Code, ch. 39, § 495: Every person who willfully discharges any species of firearms, air-gun or other weapon, or throws any other missile in any public place, or in any place where there is any person to be endangered thereby, although no injury to any person shall ensue, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
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    1877 Dakota Terr. Rev. Codes 794, § 456
    (1877)
    Penal Code, ch. 38, § 456: Prohibited the carry of any slungshot or weapon of similar kind. Violators guilty of a felony.
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    1877 Dakota Terr. Rev. Codes 771
    (1877)
    Penal Code, ch. 23, § 294: Duel Defined. A duel is any combat, with deadly weapons, fought between two persons by previous agreement or upon a previous quarrel. § 295. Punishment for Fighting. Every person guilty of fighting any duel, although no death or wound ensues, is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding ten years.
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    1863 Dakota Terr. Sess. Laws 47, 49
    (1863)
    Ch. 4, §§ 9-10: Every person who shall break and enter any dwelling house in the night time, with intent to commit the crime of murder, rape, robbery, larceny, or any other felony, or after having entered with such intent, shall break any such dwelling house in the night time, any person being then lawfully therein, and the offender being armed with a dangerous weapon at the time of such breaking, or entering, or so arming himself in such house, or making an actual assault on any person lawfully therein, shall be punished by imprisonment in the territorial prison not more than twelve years, nor less than four years. Sec. 10. Every person who shall break and enter any dwelling house in the night time, with such intent as is mentioned in the last preceding section, or who, having entered with such intent, shall break such dwelling house in the night time, the offender not being armed or arming himself in such house with a dangerous weapon, nor making an assault upon any person then being therein, shall be punished by imprisonment in the territorial prison not more than five years, nor less than two years."
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    1863 Dakota Terr. Sess. Laws 93, 95-96
    (1863)
    Ch. 15, § 18: If any person shall go armed with a dirk, dagger, sword, pistol or pistols, or other offensive and dangerous weapon, without reasonable cause to fear an assault or other injury or violence to his person, or to his family or property, he may, on complaint of any other person having reasonable cause to fear an injury or breach of the peace, be required to find sureties for keeping the peace, for a term not exceeding six months, with the right of appealing as before provided."