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Illinois

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Illinois. It supports research on the state’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from the territorial 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, manufacturing and transportation records (e.g., Chicago and downstate corridors), and oral histories tied to Illinois people and places.
  • Research outputs: technical reports, academic studies, training manuals, and curated datasets relevant to the state.

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    Laws Passed in the Territory of the United States North-West of the River Ohio 37-38 (1792)
    (1791)
    An Act . . . To prevent the selling or pawning of arms, ammunition, cloathing, and accoutrements, Chapter XII, Sec. 2: Prohibited the purchase of public arms, ammunition, clothing, or accoutrements pertaining to non-commissioned officers or private soldiers in service. Violators shall be fined the value and costs of the articles on the first violation. Proceeding violators shall pay fines and costs of articles and shall suffer imprisonment not exceeding one month.
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    Laws Passed in the Territory of the United States North-West of the River Ohio 30-31 (1792)
    (1788)
    A Law for regulating and establishing the Militia in the Territory of the United States north-west of the river Ohio, Chapter VIII: Required all males aged sixteen and upwards to be equipped and accoutred with a musket, bayonet, rifle, cartridge box and pouch, powder horn and bullet pouch, with forty rounds of cartridges, or one pound of powder and four pounds of lead, priming wire, and brush with six flints.