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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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    23 W. Clark, State Records of North Carolina 63 (1904)
    (1715)
    Ch. 46, An Act Concerning Servants & Slaves: Directed "that every Christian Servant shall be allowed by their Master or Mistress at the expitation of his or her time of srvice Three Barrells of Indyan Corn & two new Suits of Apparrel of the Value of Five ounds at leasr or in liey of one suit of Apparrel a good well-fixed Gun, if he bwe a Manservant."
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    N.C. Const. of 1875, art. I, § 24
    (1875)
    Reiterated the terms of the US second amendment. Included a second portion declaring that standing armies are dangerous to liberty and ought not to be kept up. A third section declared that nothing herein contained shall justify carrying concealed weapons or prevent the legislature from enacting penal statutes against said practice.
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    N.C. Const. art I, § 30
    (1776)
    Declared a right to bear arms in defense of the state, and that standing armies are dangerous to liberty in times of peace and shall not be "kept up."