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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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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    1887 N.C. Sess. Laws 885
    (1885)
    Ch. 58, § 22, pt. 50: Imposed a twenty-five dollar property tax on every pistol, Bowie-knife, dirk, sword-cane, or other deadly weapon.
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    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.
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    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.