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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.
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    28 Archives of Maryland 349 (1745)
    (1745)
    prohibits firehunting by non-residents
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    Laws of Maryland, 1713; Ch. 44, Sect. 32, in The Black Code of the District of Columbia in Force September 1st, 1848, at 11 (1848)
    (1713)
    Prohibition on "Negro or other slave" from carrying a gun or offensive weapon off their master's land.
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    1715 Md. Laws 117
    (1715)
    An Act for the Speedy Trial of Criminals, and Ascertaining Their Punishment in the County Courts When Prosecuted There, and For Payment of Fees Due From Criminal Persons, ch. 26, § 32: Prohibited "any negro or other slave" from carrying any gun or offensive weapon off their master's land without a ticket.
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    1715 Md. Laws 90
    (1715)
    An Act for the speedy trial of criminals, and ascertaining their punishment in the county courts when prosecuted there, and for payment of fees due from criminal persons, chap. 26, § 7: And, to prevent the abusing, hurting or worrying of any stock of hogs, cattle or horses, with dogs, or otherwise, Be It Enacted, That if any person or persons whatsoever, that have been convicted of any of the crimes aforesaid, or other crimes, or that shall be of evil fame, or a vagrant, or dissolute liver, that shall shoot, kill or hunt, or be seen to carry a gun, upon any person's land, whereon there shall be a seated plantation, without the owner's leave, having been once before warned, shall forfeit and pay one thousand pounds of tobacco...
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    26 Archives of Maryland 256 (1906)
    (1704)
    An Act relating to Servants and Slaves: "that every Man Servant shall at such time of expiration of his as aforesaid have allowed and given him..one Ax and one Gunne of twenty shillings price not above four foot by the barrell nor less than three and an half which said Gunn shall by the Master or Mistress in the presence of the ext Justice of the peace be delivered to such ffreeman under the penalty of five hundred pounds of Tobacco on such Master or Mistress omitting so to do and the like penalty on the said ffreeman selling or disposing thereof within the Space of twelve months..."
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    1840 Md. Laws 763
    (1715)
    Ch. 40: Exempted from attachment, or any other execution whatsoever