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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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    Act of March, 1886 (Published as "Notice"), in St. Mary's Beacon, Oct. 13, 1887 at 2.
    (1887)
    Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That from and after the passage of this Act it shall not be lawful for any person in St. Mary's county to carry on the days of election and primary election, within three hundred yards of the polls, secretly or otherwise, any gun, pistol, dirk, dirk-knife, razor, billy or bludgeon; and any person violating the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof by the Circuit Court of St. Mary's county, having criminal jurisdiction thereof, or before any Justice of the Peace of said county shall be fined not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars for each offence, and on refusal or failure to pay said fine shall be committed to the jail of said county until the same is paid.
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    63 Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly 338 (1773)§
    (1773)
    § 5: Banned carry of swords and other weapons in the House of Assembly, while the Assembly was sitting.
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    1874 Md. Laws 366-67
    (1874)
    An Act to Prevent the Carrying of Guns, Pistols, Dirks, Dirk-Knives, Razors, Billies or Bludgeons, ch. 250, §§ 1-3: Prohibited the carry of any gun, pistol, dirk, dirk-knife, razor, billy, or bludgeon on days of an election in Kent, Queene Anne, or Montgomery counties. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, fined not less than five but no more than twenty dollars. Violators jailed until the fine is paid.
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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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    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."
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    1647 Md. Laws 216, § 6
    (1647)
    Banned carry of weapons in the House of Assembly, while the Assembly was sitting.