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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.

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    3 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1636-1667, at 345 (reprint 1965)
    (1658)
    Required that captains make "a perfect list" of "all persons able to beare Armes within theyr respective divisions that is of all men betweene 16 and 60 yeares of Age."
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    1 Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland 347 (William Hand Browne ed., 1883)
    (1654)
    All persons from 16 yeares of age to Sixty shall be provided with Serviceable Armes & Sufficient Amunition of Powder and Shott ready upon all occasions.
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    7 Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, October 1678-November 1683, at 53 (1889); see also 1698 Md. Acts 99
    (1678)
    Kept the militia ages "between sixteen and sixty yeares of age." Further required that each "appeare and bring with him one good serviceable fixed Gunn and six shoots of Powder." Troopers were required to bring their own horses, and "to find themselves with sword Carbine Pistolls Holsters & Amunition."
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    1 Archives of Maryland 343
    (1654)
    "Noe work shall be done on the Sabboth day but that which is of Necessity and Charity to be done no Inordinate Recreations as fowling, fishing, hunting or other, no shouting of Gunns be used on that day Except in Case of Necessity
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    1650 Md. Laws 273
    (1650)
    § 5: Banned carry of weapons in the House of Assembly, while the Assembly was sitting.
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    7 Archives of Marland 51-2
    (1678)
    "Forasmuch as there is nothing more acceptable to almighty God then the true and Sincere Service & worship of him according to his holy will & fforasmuch as the Sanctifying or keepeing Holy of the Lords day comonly called Sunday is and hath been esteemed by the present & all primitive Christian Churches & people a principall and cheife part of the said Worship, which day in most places in this Province hath been & still is profaned and neglected by a wicked and disorderly sort of people by working Drunkeness swearing gameing vnlawfull pastimes and other Debaucheries to the high dishonnor of almighty God the Scandall of Christian Religion... That noe person or persons from & after the time aforesaid shall profane or abuse the said Lords day as aforesaid by Drunkeness Swearing gameing at Cards Dice Billiards Shuffell boards bowles Nynepins horserace fowling or hunting or any other vnlawfull Sportes or recreations "
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    1883 Md. Acts 273-74
    (1650)
    § 5: Prohibited entering either chamber of legislature with any gun or weapon "upon perill of such fine or censure as the howses shall thinke fitt."