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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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  • Item type:Item,
    1905 N.D. Laws 103
    (1905)
    Ch. 62, art. 4, § 47, pt. 50: To regulate and prevent the storage of gunpowder, tar, pitch, resin, coal oil, benzine [sic], turpentine, hemp, cotton, nitroglycerine, petroleum or any of the products thereof, and other combustible or explosive material[.]
  • Item type:Item,
    1915 N.D. Laws 225
    (1915)
    Ch. 161, § 67: Prohibited noncitizens from owning or possessing any shotgun or rifle; violators subject to fine, imprisonment, confiscation of weapon.
  • Item type:Item,
    1901 N.D. Laws 133-34
    (1901)
    Ch. 70, § 1: Every person who either . . . 5. Shall at any time catch or kill any of the birds permitted to be killed by this act at any time in any other manner than by shooting them with a gun held at the shoulder by a person discharging the same; or 6. Shall at any time set, lay or prepare any traps, snare, net, bird line, medicated, drugged or poisoned food or grain, or swivel gun or any contrivance or device whatever with intent to catch, take, or kill any of the birds in this act mentioned, whether the same are caught or not . . . 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 violation of subdivisions 5 or 6 of this section[.]
  • Item type:Item,
    1919 N.D. Laws 173-74
    (1919)
    Ch. 134, § 8: Any person traveling in any manner in any part of this state off the public highway, outside the immediate bounds of the inhabited parts of any village, town or city in possession of any kind of a shot gun, with or without a dog or dogs commonly used or kept for the purposes of hunting any game birds mentioned in this Act, from the first day of July to the fifteenth day of September (both inclusive) each year, shall be presumed to have violated or attempted to so violate the provisions of this Act as to unlawful hunting, shooting or taking of game birds, as mentioned in this Act, the hunting, taking, or shooting of which is prohibited during said time.
  • Item type:Item,
    1915 N.D. Laws 96
    (1915)
    Ch. 83, §§ 1-3, 5: Prohibited the concealed carrying of any instrument or weapon usually known as a blackjack, slungshot, billy, sandclub, sandbag, bludgeon, metal knuckles, or any sharp or dangerous weapon, any gun, revolver, pistol, or "other dangerous fire arm," nitroglycerin, dynamite, or any other dangerous or violent explosive.
  • Item type:Item,
    1909 N.D. Laws 203
    (1909)
    Ch. 165, § 1: No body of men, other than the regularly organized corps of the national guard and militia and the troops of the United States, shall associate themselves together as a military company or organization, or parade in public with firearms in any city or town of this state.
  • Item type:Item,
    1907 N.D. Laws 179
    (1907)
    Ch. 124, § 1: Any person who with intent to commit any crime, breaks into or enters a building and commits or attempts to commit a crime by the use of nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gunpowder or any other high explosive, is guilty of a felony. Any violation of this act is punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary of this state for not less than twenty years, and not more than forty years.