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Rhode Island

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Rhode Island. It supports research on the state’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from the colonial period 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, manufacturing, and militia records, and oral histories tied to Rhode Island people and places.
  • Research outputs: technical reports, academic studies, training manuals, and curated datasets relevant to the state.

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    1885 R.I. Pub. Laws 271
    (1885)
    Ch. 524, § 1: Regulated deliveries of gunpowder or other explosive material not marked with a description of contents. Punishable by a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars or not more than five years imprisonment.
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    Acts and Resolves Passed By the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations 157 (1883)
    (1883)
    Ch. 374, § 1: No person shall sell to any child under the age of fifteen years, without the written consent of a parent or guardian of such child, any cartridge or fixed ammunition of which any fulminate is a component part, or any gun, pistol or other mechanical contrivance arranged for the explosion of such cartridge or of any fulminate.
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    1880 R.I. Pub. Laws 110
    (1880)
    Ch. 806, § 3: Any tramp who shall willfully[1] and maliciously injure any person where such offence is not now punishable by imprisonment in the state prison, or who shall be found carrying any firearm or other dangerous weapon, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison not more than three years.
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    Statutes of the State of Rhode Island Relating to the City of Providence 432 (1875)
    (1874)
    Ch. 5, § 105: He may also arrest without a warrant any person reasonably suspected of having committed a felony, or seen committing a breach of the peace, or being unduly armed with a dangerous weapon, and also night-walkers.