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Maine

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Maine. It supports research on the state’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from the colonial and district-of-Massachusetts periods 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, maritime, forestry, and manufacturing records, and oral histories tied to Maine people and places.
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    Me. Const. of 1819, art. I, § 16
    (1819)
    Provided that every citizen has a right to keep and bear arms for the common defense, and the right shall never be questioned.
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    Ordinances of the City of Portland 23-24 (1833)
    (1832)
    § 41: Be it further ordained, That if any person shall fire or discharge any gun or pistol from the top or window of any house or other building, or in or upon any of the streets, wharves, lanes, alleys, or public squares, or in any yard or garden within the city, the same being loaded with ball or shot or with powder only , every person so offending, shall, for each offence, forfeit and pay one dollar.
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    Laws of Waterville College, Maine 11 (1832)
    (1832)
    Banned students from keeping firearms or any deadly weapon whatsoever on campus; also banned bring gunpowder on campus.
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    1821 Me. Laws 55
    (1821)
    § 7: Be it further enacted, That if any person shall voluntarily engage in a duel, with rapier, a small sword, back sword, pistol, or other dangerous weapon, to the hazard of life, when no homicide shall ensue thereon; and if any person shall, by word, message, or in any other manner, challenge another to fight in a duel, as aforesaid, when no duel shall be fought thereon, every such offender, and every person who shall be knowingly a second, agent or abettor in such duel or challenge, upon due conviction of either of said offences in the Supreme Judicial Court, shall be punished as a felonious assaulter;
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    Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 12, ch. 16, § 73 (1840)
    (1837)
    Prohibited the enrollment of idiots, lunatics, common drunkards, vagabonds, paupers, nor any person convicted of any infamous crime, and anyone else besides white, abled bodied, male citizens into any office of the militia.
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    Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 12, ch. 169, § 16 (1840)
    (1821)
    Prohibited going armed with any dirk, dagger, sword, pistol, or other offensive and dangerous weapon without reasonable cause to fear assault on oneself, their family, or property. Violators required to give sureties not exceeding one year.
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    1821 Me. Laws 98
    (1821)
    An Act for the Prevention of Damage by Fire, and the Safe Keeping of Gun Powder, chap. 25, § 1: Prohibited any person from possessing any gunpowder, in any quantity, unless permitted by local rules and regulations.
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    1821 Me. Laws 685-86
    (1821)
    §3, Act to Provide for the Proof of Fire Arms: Required the governor to appoint inspectors of firearms who would prove barrels of new or unused firearms. Punishable by fine of $10.
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    Me Rev. Stat. tit. 12, ch. 164, § 4 (1841)
    (1834)
    If any person shall carry on the business of manufacturing gun powder, or of mixing or grinding the composition therefor, in any building within eighty rods from any valuable building, erected at the time when such business may be commenced the building, in which such business may be carried on as aforesaid, shall be deemed a public nuisance; and such person shall be liable to be prosecuted and indicted accordingly.
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    1821 Me. Laws 352-53
    (1821)
    ch. 76, § 1 (1821): to cause to be staid and arrested, all affrayers, rioters, disturbers or breakers of the peace, and such as shall ride or go armed offensively, to the fear or terror of the good citizens of this State, or such others as may utter any menaces or threatening speeches;
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    Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 12, ch. 159, § 5 (1840)
    (1821)
    Prohibited being armed with clubs or other weapons while in a group of twelve or more and "unlawfully, routously, riotously, or tumutluously assembled."
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    1821 Me. Laws 98-99
    (1821)
    Ch. 25, § 5: An Act for the Prevention of Damage by Fire, and the Safe Keeping of Gun Powder: Authorized local "selectmen" to search for gun powder, which they may have reason to suppose to be concealed or kept, contrary to the rules and regulations which shall be established in such town, according to the provisions of this Act, first having obtained a search warrant therefor according to law.