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Virginia

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Virginia. It supports research on the Commonwealth’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from the colonial 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, colonial and militia records, maritime and manufacturing archives, agricultural and law-enforcement collections, and oral histories tied to Virginia people and places.
  • Research outputs: technical reports, academic studies, training manuals, and curated datasets relevant to the Commonwealth.

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    Ordinances of the City of Norfolk 262 (1902) (enacted 1899).
    (1899)
    Ch. 62, § 561: No person shall discharge a fire arm or bring any dog in the park.
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    Ordinances of the City of Norfolk 60 (1894)
    (1894)
    Ch. 8, § 1: If any person carry about his person, hid from common observation, any pistol, dirk, bowie-knife, razor, slung-shot, or any weapon of the like kind, he shall be fined not less than twenty nor more than one hundred dollars, and such pistol, dirk, bowie knife, razor, slungshot, or any weapon of the like kind, may be seized by an officer
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    1898 Va. Code Supp. 377 (1898)
    (1895)
    Tit. 52, ch. 184, § 3780: Prohibited the carrying of a concealed pistol, dirk, Bowie knife, razor, slungshot, or any weapon of the like kind. Punishable by fine of $20-100 and forfeiture of the weapon.
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    Ordinances of the City of Norfolk 115-16 (1894)
    (1894)
    Ch. 33, § 1: No person shall keep, in any house or store, any quantity of gunpowder exceeding two kegs or vessels thereof, of the weight of twenty-five pounds each,
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    1889-90 Va. Acts 118
    (1890)
    Ch. 152, § 1: Banned the sale, barter, transfer, giving, or furnishing, or cause to be sold to any minor under sixteen pistols, dirks, Bowie knives. Violators fined not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars.