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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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    1909 Me. Acts 169
    (1909)
    An Act concerning the protection of children, ch. 166, § 2: Considered the transfer f firearms to children dangerous to the welfare of such children unless in circumstances where the child is being furnished the weapon for hunting or target shooting
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    1909 Me. Laws 257
    (1909)
    Ch. 206, § 113-Military Parades by Unauthorized Bodies Prohibited: No body of men, other than the active militia and the troops of the United States, shall associate themselves together as a military company or organization, or parade in public with firearms in any city or town of this state; nor shall any city or town raise or appropriate any money toward arming, equipping, uniforming or in any other way supporting, sustaining or providing drill rooms or armories for any such body of men;
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    An Ordinance Relating to Concealed Weapons, §§ 1-5, in City of Portland Auditor's Fifty-First Annual Report of the Receipts and Expenditures of the City of Portland for the Financial Year of 1909, at 152-53 (1910).
    (1909)
    No person shall, within the corporate limits of the City of Portland, in a threatening manner display any firearm, slung shot, knuckles, bowie knife, dirk, stiletto, or other dangerous or deadly weapon. And no person shall, within the corporate limits of the City of Portland, wear under his clothes or concealed about his person any such fire arm, slung shot, knuckles, bowie knife, dirk, stiletto, or other dangerous or deadly weapon, unless first licensed so to do in the manner following:
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    1909 Me. Acts 141
    (1909)
    An Act to prohibit the use of Firearms fitted with any device to deaden the sound of explosion, ch. 129, § 1: It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, offer for sale, use or have in his possession, any gun, pistol or other firearm, fitted or contrived with any device for deadening the sound of explosion. Whoever violates any of the provisions of this act shall forfeit such firearm or firearms and the device or silencer, and shall further be subject to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or to imprisonment not exceeding sixty days, or to both fine and imprisonment. . .