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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.
  • Historical materials: newspapers, photographs, maps, catalogs, militia and frontier records, coastal and naval stores archives, manufacturing and law-enforcement collections, and oral histories tied to North Carolina people and places.
  • Research outputs: technical reports, academic studies, training manuals, and curated datasets relevant to the state.

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    1866 N.C. Sess. Laws Priv. Sess. 63
    (1856)
    Imposed a $50 tax on all weapons.
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    Laws for the Government of the City of Raleigh 63 (1854)
    (1854)
    § 6: No person shall discharge any gun or other fire-arms within any of the streets or public squares of the city, or upon any lot of the same, (excepting his own lot,) on pain of forfeiting four dollars for every such offence. Or, if the offence be committed in the night, the offender shall forfeit twenty-five dollars
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    1856-1857 N.C. Sess. Laws 34
    (1856)
    Pub. Laws, ch. 34, § 23, pt. 4: On every pistol, except such as are used exclusively for mustering, and on every bowie-knife, one dollar and twenty five cents; on dirks and swordcanes, sixty five cents: Provided, however, That of said arms, only such shall be taxable, as at some time within the year have been used, worn or carried about the person of the owner, or of some other, by his consent.
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    1850-51 N.C. Sess. Laws 243
    (1850)
    Ch. 121, § 5: Applied a property tax on all pistols, Bowie-knives for one dollar. A property tax of fifty cents applied to dirks, sword canes.
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    1856-1857 N.C. Sess. Laws 22
    (1856)
    Pub. Laws, ch. 24, § 1: [T]he true intent and meaning of the 95th section of the 34th chapter of the Revised Code was and is hereby declared to be to prevent fire hunting for deer with a gun or guns in the night time, and nothing more.
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    1858-1859 N.C. Sess. Laws 35-36
    (1858)
    Pub. Laws, ch. 25, § 27, pt. 15: Imposed a tax of one dollar and twenty-five cents on every dirk, Bowie-knife, pistol, sword cane, dirk-cane, and rifle cane.