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Maryland

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Maryland. 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 military records, and oral histories tied to Maryland people and places.
  • Research outputs: technical reports, academic studies, training manuals, and curated datasets relevant to the state.

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    1 Archives of Maryland 77 (William Hand Browne ed., 1885) (enacted 1639)
    (1639)
    Required "every housekeeeper" to keep and bear one gun of "bastard muskett boare" design, bandeloors or shott bag, one pound of powder, four pounds of pistol or musket shot, sufficient quantity of matchlocks & flints, a sword, and belt.
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    3 Archives of Maryland 103 (1642)
    (1642)
    All housekeepers to provide an arm, sufficient powder, and ammo for each person able to bear arms. No man able to bear arms shall attend church or chappell or travel any considerable distance from home without an arm and at least one charge of powder and shott.
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    3 Archives of Maryland 255
    (1648)
    licenses previously issued for "killing of Wild Hoggs [e]mploying Indians to kill deere with Gunnes" both to residents and non-residents of Maryland "hath occasioned some inconvenience & hath given great offence to divers of the Inhabitants of this Province," all existing licenses were repealed
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    2 John Leeds Bozman, History of Maryland 116 (1837) (enacted 1639)
    (1639)
    Gave the inhabitants of Maryland, who are Christians, all rights, liberties, immunities, privileges, and free customs as naturally born Englishmen.
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    1647 Md. Laws 216, § 6
    (1647)
    Banned carry of weapons in the House of Assembly, while the Assembly was sitting.