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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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    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;
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    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."
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    James Iredell, A Digested Manual of the Acts of the General Assembly of North Carolina 75 (1847)
    (1846)
    Prohibited selling or delivering firearms and weapons to "any slave, or slaves, any gun cotton, fire arms, swords, dirks or other side arms."
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    James Iredell, A Digested Manual of the Acts of the General Assembly of North Carolina 73 (1847)
    (1840)
    Prohibited "any free negro, mulatto, or free person of color" from carrying or possessing any shotgun, musket, rifle, pistol, sword, dagger, or bowie knife without a license from the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of his or her country.
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    1715-55 N.C. Sess. Laws 36
    (1729)
    An Additional Act to an Act for Appointing Toll-Books, and for Preventing People from Driving Horses, Cattle, or Hogs to Other Persons' Lands, ch. 5, § 7: Prohibited "slaves" to hunt on any person's land besides their master's with any weapon.
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    John Haywood, A Manual of the Laws of North-Carolina 234-35 (1814)
    (1784)
    Hunting, § 3: If any person or persons shall be discovered hunting in the woods with a gun, in the night time, by fire light, such person or persons so offending shall, upon conviction, by indictment or presentment in any court of record in this state, be fined by such court 20 current money, to be applied to the use of the county wherein the offence was committed until all costs accruing upon the presentment be paid.