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North Carolina

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to North Carolina. 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.
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Jurisdiction: search.filters.coverage.North CarolinaStart date: 1890

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    1919 N.C. Sess. Laws 397, 397-399
    (1919)
    Pub. Laws, ch. 197, §§ 1-8: That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation in this State to sell, give away or dispose of, or to purchase or receive, at any place within the State from any other place within or without the State, without a license or permit therefor shall have first been obtained by such purchaser or receiver from the clerk of the Superior Court of the county in which such purchase, sale, or transfer is intended to be made, any pistol, so-called pump-gun, bowie knife, dirk, dagger or metallic knucks.
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    1893 N.C. Sess. Laws 468-69
    (1893)
    Pub. Laws, ch. 514, §§ 1-2: Prohibiting the transfer of any pistol, pistol cartridge, brass knucks, Bowie knife, dirk, loaded cane, or slingshot to a minor.
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    1893 N.C. Sess. Laws 148
    (1893)
    Pub. Laws, ch. 191, §§ 1-3: That no body of men composed of more than three persons calling themselves detectives or claiming to be in the employ of any detective agency or known and designated as detectives shall go armed in this state.
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    1893, N.C. Sess. Laws 356-57
    (1893)
    Pub. Laws, ch. 374, § 38: It shall be unlawful for any persons to organize a military company, or drill or parade under arms as a military body, except under the militia laws and regulations of this state; and no person shall exercise or attempt to exercise the power or authority of a military officer in this state unless he holds a commission from the governor, and any person offending against this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined or imprisoned at the discretion of the court.
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    1921 N.C. Sess. Laws 54
    (1921)
    Pub. Laws Extra Sess., ch. 6, § 3: That any person who shall carry a pistol, revolver, or gun in any park or reservation such as is described in section one of this act, without having first obtained the written permission of the owner or manager of said park or reservation, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, or shall be fined or imprisoned, in the discretion of the court, for each and every offense.
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    1921 N.C. Sess. Laws 105
    (1921)
    Pub. Laws, ch. 5, §§ 1-2: Any person who, with intent to commit crime, breaks and enters, either by day or by night, any building, whether inhabited or not, and opens or attempts to open any vault, safe, or other secure place by use of nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gunpowder, or any other explosive, or acetylene torch, shall be deemed guilty of burglary with explosives
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    1917 N.C. Sess. Laws 134
    (1917)
    Pub. Laws, ch. 76, § 1: If anyone except on his own premises shall carry concealed about his person any pistol or gun, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than two years, at the discretion of the court.
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    1913 N.C. Sess. Laws 57
    (1913)
    Pub. Laws, ch. 32 § 1: That any person being the parent or guardian of, or standing in loco parentis to, any child under the age of twelve years who shall knowingly permit such child to have the possession or custody of, or use in any manner whatever, any gun, pistol, or other dangerous firearm, whether such firearm be loaded or unloaded, or any other person, who shall knowingly furnish such child any such firearm, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not exceeding fifty dollars, or imprisoned not exceeding thirty days.