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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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    Ordinances, ch. 1, tit. 1, § 3, THE BOTTINEAU PIONEER, Dec. 13, 1888, at 4 (Bottineau, North Dakota)
    (1888)
    Any person found armed within the corporate limits of the village of Bottineau with a dirk, dagger, sword, pistol or pistols, or other offensive or dangerous weapons, without reasonable cause to fear an assault or other injury or violence to his person or to his family or property, shall, upon conviction before said justice, be punished by a fine not exceeding ten dollars, or by imprisonment in the village jail not exceeding term of thirty days.
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    1883 Dakota Terr. Rev. Code 684
    (1883)
    Penal Code, § 457: Prohibited the concealed carry of any fire-arms or any sharp or dangerous weapon usually employed in attack or defense of the person. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor.
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    1899 N.D. Rev. Codes 1533-34, Penal Code, ch. 72, § 7, pt. 5.
    (1899)
    Every person who either . . . at any time kills or shoots any wild duck, goose, crane or brant with a swivel gun or other guns except such as is commonly shot from the shoulder, or in hunting such birds makes use of any artificial light or battery . . . Is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any justice of the peace of the county, is punishable by a fine of not exceeding ten dollars for each of the birds mentioned in subdivisions 1, 2, 3, or 4 of this section, so shot or killed or nest or eggs so destroyed[.]
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    1895 N.D. Rev. Codes 1299, Penal Code, ch. 43, § 7358
    (1895)
    Every person who willfully discharges any species of firearm, air gun or other weapon or throws any 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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    1895 N.D. Rev. Codes 1289, Penal Code, ch. 40, § 7290
    (1895)
    Every person who makes or keeps gunpowder, saltpeter, gun-cotton, nitroglycerine or dynamite or any compound of the same, or any fulminate or substance which is intended to be used by exploding or igniting the same, in order to produce a force to propel missiles or to rend apart substances, within any city, town or village, and any person who carries any of such explosives through the streets thereof, in any quantity or manner prohibited by law or by any ordinance, by law or regulation of said city, town or village, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
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    1895 N.D. Rev. Codes 1259, Penal Code, ch. 18, § 7094
    (1895)
    Setting Spring Gun, Trap or Device. Every person who sets any spring or other gun or trap or device operating by the firing or exploding of gunpowder or any other explosive, and leaves or permits the same to be left, except in the immediate presence of some competent person, shall be deemed to have committed a misdemeanor; and the killing of any person by the firing of a gun or other device so set shall be deemed to be manslaughter in the first degree.
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    1891 N.D. Laws 193-94
    (1891)
    Ch. 70, § 1: Prohibited the setting of any gun or gun trap to be discharged at certain animals.
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    1895 N.D. Rev. Codes 1293, Penal Code, ch. 40, §§ 7312-13
    (1895)
    Prohibited the carrying of any slungshot or similar weapon, and the concealed carrying of any firearm or any "sharp or dangerous weapon."