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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.
  • Research outputs: technical reports, academic studies, training manuals, and curated datasets relevant to the state.

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    The Revised Ordinances of the City of Portland 22 (1848)
    (1848)
    §§ 1-2: No person not licensed to keep and sell gunpowder shall keep or have in his shop, store, dwelling house or other tenement, at any one time, a larger quantity of gunpowder than one pound. § 2. No person licensed to keep and sell gunpowder shall have or keep in his store, shop, dwelling house or in any other tenement or place whatever at any one time, a larger quantity of gunpowder then twenty-five pounds.
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    Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 12, ch. 169, § 16 (1840)
    (1840)
    Required any person going armed with any dirk, dagger, sword, pistol, or other offensive and dangerous weapon to post a surety once a complaint was filed, having cause to fear an injury or breach of the peace. Surety not to exceed one year with appeals provided.