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Louisiana

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Louisiana. It supports research on the state’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from French and Spanish colonial periods through statehood to the present.

  • Legal sources: statutes and session laws, administrative code, attorney general opinions, appellate decisions, and select parish/municipal ordinances.
  • Historical materials: newspapers, photographs, maps, catalogs, maritime and port records, militia and Civil War archives, and oral histories tied to Louisiana people and places.
  • Research outputs: technical reports, academic studies, training manuals, and curated datasets relevant to the state.

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    Evening Gun, no. 251, in E.C. Wharton, New Orleans Laws and General Ordinances 89 (1857).
    (1857)
    That the captains of police of the first, second, third and fourth districts be, and are hereby, instructed to purchase the powder necessary for firing the evening guns in said districts, and present the vouchers for the same, after they have been approved by the chief of police, and it shall be the duty of the said captains to detail a member of the police force of each of said districts to fire the said evening guns, without extra compensation."
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    Levi Peirce, The Consolidation and Revision of the Statutes of the State, of a General Nature 185 (1852)
    (1852)
    When gunpowder is shipped on board of a steamboat, which shall at all times be stowed away at as great a distance as possible from the furnace, a written notification of the fact shall be placed in three conspicuous parts of the boat; and in the event of such notification not being so exhibited , then for any loss of property, or life, for which the powder shall be deemed the cause, the owner shall be liable to the shipper for the full amount of said loss or damage; and the captain, in the event of loss of life being the result of such accident, shall be adjudged guilty of manslaughter.§ 6. Any person or persons who shall ship or put on board, or cause to be shipped or put on board of any steamboat, within this State, any gunpowder, without giving notice thereof a the time of making the shipment to the master clerk of said boat, shall be liable to a penalty of two hundred dollars, which may be sued for and recovered before any court of competent jurisdiction by the owner, captain or clerk of said boat, for his or her own use and benefit
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    Henry Jefferson Leovy, The Laws and General Ordinances of the City of New Orleans 242 (1857)
    (1857)
    680: Every keeper of a pistol gallery, the whole tax being levied on each and every gallery, sixty dollars.
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    1855 La. Acts 148
    (1855)
    Ch. 120: Prohibited the concealed carrying of "pistols, bowie knife, dirk, or any other dangerous weapon." Violators fined not exceeding one thousand dollars or no more than three months imprisonment.