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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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    Charter and Revised Ordinances of the City of Hallowell, with Boundaries of the Wards 39 (1871)
    (1871)
    § 32: No person shall fire or discharge any gun or pistol from the top or window of any house or other building, or in any highway, public square, common or cemetery in the city.
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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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    Ordinance no. 16, §§ 10 & 14, in Saco, The Charter and Ordinances of the City (1867).
    (1867)
    No person shall fire any rocket, squib or cracker, or other thing formed of gun powder, or other explosive substance, in whole or in part, nor make any bonfire of tar barrels, or any other substances, nor, except in the performance of some duty authorized by law, discharge any field piece, gun, or other fire-arm, in or upon any street or way of the city, without permission of the mayor and aldermen