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Vermont

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Vermont. It supports research on the state’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from the colonial and Republic of Vermont periods through statehood to the present.

  • Legal sources: statutes and session laws, administrative rules, attorney general opinions, appellate decisions, and select municipal ordinances.
  • Historical materials: newspapers, photographs, maps, catalogs, militia and frontier records, manufacturing and forestry archives, and oral histories tied to Vermont people and places.
  • Research outputs: technical reports, academic studies, training manuals, and curated datasets relevant to the state.

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  • Item type:Item,
    Laws of the University of Vermont State Agricultural College, ch. 6, §§ 4, 9 (1885)
    (1885)
    Sec. 4: Rooms shall be held by students subject to the condition that all rules, for securing quiet, order, and cleanliness in the rooms, halls, and premises, are strictly observed. Any violation of these rules, either by themselves or visitors, shall subject the occupants to forfeiture of their right to the room. Self-boarding in any of the rooms; the keeping of a dog or cat; cutting or splitting wood in the rooms or halls; shouting, or throwing anything, from the windows; pasting pictures on or otherwise injuring the walls; loud and boisterous noises in the rooms or halls; playing on musical instruments during recitation hours or after ten o'clock at night; gatherings of students in the rooms after the same hour; the keeping of fire-arms or gunpowder except under direction of the Military Instructor; bringing into the rooms any fermented or distilled liquors; are prohibited. Sec. 9. No student shall use gun powder or fire-arms in the buildings, or on the adjacent grounds of the University, except under direction of the Military Instructor. No smoking shall be allowed in any of the halls or public rooms of the University; nor shall any intoxicating drinks be brought upon the University premises."
  • Item type:Item,
    Act of Incorporation and By-Laws of the Village of Northfield 20 (1894)
    (1894)
    Severely restricted the ability to discharge firearms in Northfield.
  • Item type:Item,
    1890 Vt. Acts & Resolves 83
    (1890)
    No. 82, § 19, pt. 15: Granted the village the power to restrain the use of firecrackers, rockets, squibs, and toy pistols in the village.
  • Item type:Item,
    Leon G. Bagley, Charter and Ordinances of the City of Rutland 153 (1894)
    (1894)
    Ch. 20, § 19: No person shall, except in the performance of some duty required by law, discharge any gun, pistol, or other fire arm loaded with ball or shot, or with powder only, or squibs, or fire-crackers, serpent, or other preparation whereof gun-powder or other explosive substance is an ingredient, or which consists wholly of the same, within the principal inhabited parts of the city, or within twenty-five rods of any dwelling-house therein, nor shall make any bonfire in or upon any street, lane, common or public place within the city, except by authority of the city council.
  • Item type:Item,
    Ch. 13, § 21; Ch. 22, §§ 14-15; Ch. 35, § 7, in St. Albans Daily Messenger Supplement, Aug. 7, 1897, at 1, 3-10
    (1897)
    No person, except on his own premises, or by the consent of the owner or occupant of the premises, or in the performance of some duty required by law, shall discharge any gun, pistol or other firearm loaded with ball or shot, or with powder only, or squibs or fire-crackers, serpent, or other preparation whereof gun-powder or other explosive substance is an ingredient, or which consists wholly of the same, within the principal inhabited parts of the city, or within twenty-five rods of any dwelling house therein, nor shall make any bonfire in or upon any street, lane or public place within the city, except by permission of the city council
  • Item type:Item,
    Charter and Ordinances of the City of Barre 48, 53 (1904) (enacted 1895)
    (1895)
    Ch. 14, § 18: No person, except on his own premises, or by the consent and permission of the owner or occupant of the premises, and except in the performance of some duty required by law, shall discharge any gun, pistol, or other fire arm loaded with ball or shot, or with powder only, or firecrackers, serpent, or other preparation whereof gunpowder or other explosive substance is an ingredient, or which consists wholly of the same, nor shall make any bonfire in or upon any street, lane, common or public place within the city, except by authority of the city council.
  • Item type:Item,
    1818 Vt. Acts & Resolves 64-65
    (1818)
    An Act Regulating and Governing the Militia of This State, § 42: No noncommissioned officer, private or citizen shall unnecessarily fire a gun, single musket or pistol, in any public road, or near any house or place of parade, on the evening preceding, on the day or evening of the same, on which any troop company, battalion or regiment shall be ordered to assemble for military duty