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Delaware

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

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    1852 Del. Rev. Stat. 215-16
    (1852)
    Title Tenth-Of Corporations, Chapter 73-Of the city of Wilmington, § 27: Authorized the city council to regulate the storage of gunpowder.
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    1845 Del. Laws 10
    (1845)
    A Supplement To The Act Entitled "An Act To Survey, Lay Out And Regulate the Streets Of Smyrna and for Other Purposes," ch. 12, § 2: Imposed a duty on commissioners, justices of the peace, and constables to extinguish and prevent bonfires in the streets, lanes, and alleys. The duty also included the suppression and preventing discharge of guns, pistols, crackers, squibs, or fire-balls in the town limits.
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    8 Del. Laws 198 (1841)
    (1841)
    A Supplement to the Act Entitled "An Act for Establishing the Boundaries of the Town of Dover, and for Other Purposes Therein Mentioned, § 2: Placed a duty on commissioners, justices, and constables to suppress, extinguish, and prevent bonfires in the public square of Dover. Also required the suppression and preventing of discharge of guns, firecrackers, squibs within the town limits.
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    1852 Del. Laws 664
    (1852)
    An Act To Incorporate the Town of Camden and for Other Purposes, ch. 652, § 3: Authorized the elected commissioners to regulate the discharge of guns or pistols.
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    1852 Del. Rev. Stat. 333
    (1852)
    § 13: Authorized the justices of the peace to arrest and bind to surety all affrayers, breakers and disturbers of the peace, and all who go armed offensively to the terror of the people, or are otherwise disorderly and dangerous. Note as of 10/26: Duke left out a significant, material portion of this law. Affrayers, breakers and disturbers of the peace was not included on Duke's page.
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    9 Del. Laws 552 (1843)
    (1843)
    A Further Supplement to an Act Entitled "An Act to Prevent the Use of Fire-arms by Free Negroes and Free Mulattoes and for Other Purposes, § 1: Repealed laws allowing the Justice of the Peace to license or permit a "free negro or free mulatto" to have, use, or possess a gun or fowling piece.
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    1852 Del. Rev. Stat 215
    (1852)
    Tit. 10, ch. 73, § 27: to provide for the weighing of hay, and for the measuring, or weighing, of coal, lime, grain, or any other matter sold in the said city; to regulate the storage of gunpowder, or any other dangerously combustible matter.§
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    1835 Del. Laws 430 (Spec. Sess.)
    (1841)
    An Act Concerning Fees, ch. 368, § 1: Set payment for Justices of the Peace to receive 25 cents for each license issued to "negroes" to keep a firearm.