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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.

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    The Charter, Amendments, and Acts of the Legislature Relating to the Municipal Court, and the Ordinances of the City of Lewiston, Together with the Boundaries of the Several Wards, Regulations Respecting Gunpowder, and an Abstract of the Laws Relating to the Powers and Duties of Cities and Towns 43 (1873)
    (1873)
    §§ 1-3: No person shall keep or have in any shop, store, dwelling house or tenement, in the city of Lewiston, at any one time a larger quantity of gun-powder than one pound, unless he is licensed by the mayor and aldermen to keep and sell gunpowder, or except as hereinafter provided. § 2. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to sell any gunpowder which may at the time be within said city, in any quantity, by wholesale or retail, without having first obtained from the mayor and aldermen a license to sell gunpowder, and every license shall be written or printed, and duly signed by the mayor, on a paper upon which shall be written or printed a copy of the rules and regulations established by the city relative to keeping, selling and transporting gunpowder within said city; and every such license shall be in force one year from the date thereof, unless revoked by the mayor and aldermen; but such license may, prior to its expiration, be renewed by an endorsement thereon by the mayor, for the further term of one year, and so from year to year, provided, always, that it may at any time be rescinded or revoked by the mayor and aldermen, for good and sufficient reasons. § 3. Every person who shall receive a license to sell gunpowder, as aforesaid, shall pay for the same to the treasurer of the city the sum of three dollars, and for each renewal of the same, the sum of one dollar.
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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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    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
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    A.G. Davis, Charter and Ordinances, and Rules and Orders of the City Council 52 (1874)
    (1874)
    § 4: No person shall haul unto, or lay at any wharf in the city, any vessel having on board more than twenty-five pounds of gun-powder, nor discharge or receive on board exceeding that quantity, without having first obtained from the Mayor a permit therefor, designating the wharf at which said powder may be landed or received on board.
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    An Act Concerning the Militia § 171, in Acts and Resolves Passed by the Forty-Fourth Legislature of the State of Maine 280 (1865).
    (1865)
    It shall not be lawful for any body of men whatsoever, other than the regularly organized corps of the militia, the troops of the United States, to associate themselves together as a military company or organization, or to parade in public with arms, in any city or town of this state, without the license of the governor therefor, which may at any time be revoked; nor shall it be lawful for any city or town to raise or appropriate any money toward arming, equipping, uniforming, or in any way supporting or sustaining or providing drill rooms or armories for any such bodies of men."
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    Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 2, ch. 26, § 24 (1871)
    (1871)
    Allowed municipal officers to regulate storage or transportation of gun powder. Also allowed municipal officers to enter any building with a search warrant to find concealed articles contrary to regulations..
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    Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 11, ch. 128, § 12 (1884)
    (1883)
    Whoever has in his possession a toy pistol for the explosion of percussion caps, or blank cartridges, with intent to sell it, or sells or offers to sell or give it away, shall be fined not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars, and shall be liable for all damages resulting from such selling, or giving away, to be recovered in an action on the case.
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    Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 11, ch. 130, § 10 (1884)
    (1884)
    Prohibited the carrying of a dirk, dagger, sword, pistol, or other offensive and dangerous weapon without reasonable cause to fear an assault.
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    1880 Me. Laws 212-213
    (1880)
    An Act to Punish Tramps, ch. 213, §§ 1-2: Any tramp who shall enter any dwelling house, or kindle any fire in the highway or on the land of another, without the consent of the owner or occupant thereof, or shall be found carrying any fire-arm or other dangerous weapon, or shall threaten to do any injury to any person, or to the real or personal estate of another, shall be punished by imprisonment at hard labor in the state prison not more than two years."