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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.
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    1901 N.C. Sess. Laws 160
    (1901)
    Pub. Laws, ch. 23, §§ 1, 2: That it shall be unlawful for any person wantonly, or in sport to shoot or discharge any gun or pistol in, or within two hundred yards or any street in, or any public road leading out of the town of Roper, in the county of Washington, for a distance of one-half mile form the place where the post-office in said town was located on the first day of January, 1901.
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    Regulations and Ordinances, Together with a Statement of the Various Acts, Ordinances and Resolutions Concerning the Town of Salem, N.C., from 1856 to 1896, at 5 (1896)
    (1896)
    § 7: No person shall fire a gun or pistol for the purpose of sport or amusement, nor shoot or discharge any sling shot, or other projectile unless by written consent of the Mayor. Fine Ten Dollars for Each offense]
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    1885 N.C. Sess. Laws 1010
    (1885)
    Priv. Laws, ch. 103, § 6: That it shall be a misdemeanor for any one to fire off a gun or pistol in the limits of the incorporation while occupied in worship
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    1891 N.C. Sess. Laws 775
    (1891)
    Ch. 52, § 27.: That they may prohibit the firing of any gun, pistol, fire-cracker, gunpowder, other materials or other dangerous combustibles in the streets, public grounds or elsewhere in said town.
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    1911 N.C. Sess. Laws 736
    (1911)
    Priv. Laws, ch. 293, § 4: That it shall be a misdemeanor for any person to use loud, profane or indecent language, fire off a gun or pistol in hearing distance of those assembled for or engaged in divine worship, or otherwise disturb and annoy those assembled for or engaged in divine worship, and any person violating the provisions of this section shall be fined not more than fifty dollars or imprisoned not exceeding thirty days.
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    1905 N.C. Sess. Laws 488
    (1905)
    Priv. Laws, ch. 174, § 60: That the board of commissioners of said town shall have power to pass ordinances for the protection of the persons and property of the citizens of the same, and to that end may pass an ordinance making it unlawful to discharge any gun, pistol, or other fire-arm within the corporate limits of the said town or within one-fourth of a mile from the corporate limits of the same, as set out in section two of this act, and any person found guilty of violating the provisions of this section may be punished in the same manner as if the offense had been committed within the corporate limits as aforesaid.
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    1893 N.C. Sess. Laws 348
    (1893)
    Priv. Laws, ch. 221, § 5: That it shall be a misdemeanor for any one while a congregation is assembled at the church for any social, religious, political or educational purposes, or while any such congregation is breaking and leaving, to fire any gun or pistol, to throw anything by which any one might be hurt, to cut loose any animal, or commit any damage to any article of personal property; and for every such offence, on conviction, the offender shall be fined ten dollars.
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    1889 N.C. Sess. Laws 820
    (1889)
    Ch. 178, § 3: That it shall be a misdemeanor for any person to . . . fire off a gun or pistol in hearing distance of those assembled for or occupied in divine worship at said church.
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    1881 N.C. Sess. Laws 731
    (1881)
    Ch. 40, § 43: The Board of Aldermen�shall have power to make ordinances to prohibit or control the firing of fire-arms, fire crackers, torpedoes and other explosive material, and to govern the sale thereof in the city
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    1899 N.C. Sess. Laws 250
    (1899)
    Pub. Laws, ch. 120, § 1: That it shall be unlawful for any person wantonly or in sport to shoot or discharge any gun or pistol in or within one hundred yards of any street in any public road leading out of the towns of Sparta in Alleghany county and Jefferson in Ashe county for a distance of one-fourth mile from the court houses in said towns
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    1883 N.C. Sess. Laws 819-20
    (1883)
    Ch. 96, § 3: That if any person after crossing said bridge shall refuse to pay toll, or shall drive rapidly, or ride at a trot, gallop or run, or discharge firearms at the bridge, the same shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction before a justice of the peace in Catawba or Iredell county