North Carolina
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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.
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Item type:Item, Item type:Item, 1860-61 N.C. Sess. Laws 219-20(1860)Priv. Laws, ch. 180, § 1: Granted the town of Wilmington the authority to levy and collect taxes annually on all pistols, dirks, Bowie-knives, or sword-canes if worn about the person at any time during the year, as well as all pistol galleries.Item type:Item, 1862-1863 N.C. Sess. Laws 60(1862)Priv. Laws, Adj. Sess., ch. 49, § 9: [T]hey may prohibit and prevent by practices the riding or driving of horses or other animals at a speed greater than six miles an hour, within the city; and also the firing of guns, pistols, crackers, gun powder or other explosive, combustible or dangerous materials in the streets, public grounds, or elsewhere within the city.Item type:Item, 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 dollarsItem type:Item, 1868-69 N.C. Sess. Laws 202(1868)Priv. Laws, ch. 123, § 18: Granted the Board the power to levy and collect taxes on all pistols, except when part of stock in trade. Also on all dirks, Bowie-knives, and sword-canes if worn on the person at any time during the year. Tax not to exceed one dollar.Item type:Item, 1865-66 N.C. Sess. Laws 22(1866)Priv. Laws, ch. 7, § 64: That they may prohibit and prevent, by penalties, . . . and also the firing of guns, pistols, crackers, gun-powder or other explosive, combustible or dangerous materials in the streets, public grounds, or elsewhere within the city."Item type:Item, 1868-69 N.C. Sess. Laws 96, 101-102(1869)Priv. Laws, ch. 79, § 25: The commissioners may prevent by penalties the firing of guns, pistols, crackers, gunpowder or other explosive materials in the streets or corporate limits.Item type:Item, 1865-66 N.C. Sess. Laws 69-70(1866)Priv. Laws, ch. 7, § 30: That the said board of aldermen shall have power to make from time to time, ordinances, rules and regulations concerning the firing of fire-arms, and all explosions in said city, the pace and speed at which horses may be driven or rode through the streets, the arrangements of stove-pipes in buildings, the mode in which fire shall be kept, or carried through the city, the manner in which powder and other explosive and inflammable substances may be kept and soldItem type:Item, 1865-66 N.C. Sess. Laws 63(1866)Priv. Laws, ch. 7, § 19: Granted the Board of Aldermen the power to levy a fifty dollar tax on every pistol, Bowie-knife, dirk, sword-cane, or any other deadly weapon worn upon the person except a pocket knife without special permission from the aldermen.Item type:Item, 1868-69 N.C. Sess. Laws 59-60(1868)Pub. Laws, ch. 18, § 1: [I]f any person or persons whomsoever shall be known to hunt in this state on the Sabbath with a dog or dogs, or shall be found off of their premises on the Sabbath, having with him or them a shot-gun, rifle or pistol, he or they shall be subject to indictment; and, upon conviction, shall pay a fine not to exceed fifty dollars at the discretion of the Court, two-thirds of such fine to enure to the benefit of the free public schools in the County of which such convict is a resident, the remainder to the informant.Item type:Item, 1861 N.C. Sess. Laws 25(1861)Pub. Laws, 2d. Extra Sess., ch. 17, § 10: Every resident enrolled and notified, as is directed in the third section of this act, shall within one month thereafter, provide himself with a good musket, smooth bore gun or rifle, shot pouch and powder horn, and shall appear so armed and accoutred when called out to exercise or in actual service; the commissioned officers shall severally be armed with a sword or revolver at his discretionItem type:Item, 1866-67 N.C. Sess. Laws 103(1867)Pub. Laws, ch. 72, § 14: Property tax of one dollar on every dirk, Bowie knife, pistol, sword cane, dirk cane, and rifle cane. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by forfeiture of the weapon.Item type:Item, 1868-69 N.C. Sess. Laws 407-08(1868)Pub. Laws, ch. 167, § 7: Every person who commits any assault upon the person of another, with any deadly or dangerous weapon, or who unlawfully shoots or attempts to shoot at another with any kind of fire-arms, with intent to injure any person, without intent to kill such person or to commit any felony, shall be punished upon conviction, by imprisonment in the State's prison not exceeding five years.Item type:Item, 1865-66 N.C. Sess. Laws 33-34(1866)Pub. Laws, ch. 21, § 11: Imposed a $1 tax on every dirk, Bowie knife, pistol, sword cane, dirk cane, and rifle cane used or worn during the year.Item type:Item, 1865-66 N.C. Sess. Laws 103-04(1866)Pub Laws, ch. 40, § 15: "an act to amend chapter one hundred and seven, section sixty-six, of the Revised Code, relating to free negroes having arms;Item type:Item, 1860-1861 N.C. Sess. Laws 68(1860)Pub. Laws, ch. 34, § 1: Prohibited "any free negro" from wearing or carrying or keeping in his house any "any shot gun, musket, rifle, pistol, sword, sword cane, dagger, bowie knife, powder or shot."Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.