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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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    22 Del. Laws 408 (1901)
    (1901)
    § 16: Authorized the aldermen to extinguish and prevent bonfires in the streets, lanes, and alleys. The duty also included the suppression and preventing discharge of guns, pistols, firecrackers or fireworks in the town limits.
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    22 Del. Laws 381 (1901)
    (1901)
    § 9: Authorized the town to regulate the storage of gunpowder and any other dangerous or combustible materials.
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    23 Del. Laws 399 (1905)
    (1904)
    Of Cities and Towns, AN ACT to re-incorporate the Town of Milton, § 8: Authorized the town to regulate the storage of gunpowder and any other dangerous or combustible materials. Note: Duke Center of Firearms Law incorrectly labeled this as a 1901 law, possibly because 1901 laws are from Del. Laws vol. XXII part 1, whereas this is from Del. Laws. vol. XXII part 2.
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    22 Del. Laws 403 (1901)
    (1901)
    § 9: Authorized the town to regulate the storage of gunpowder and any other dangerous or combustible materials.
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    22 Del. Laws 387 (1901)
    (1901)
    § 17: Authorized the aldermen to extinguish and prevent bonfires in the streets, lanes, and alleys. The duty also included the suppression and preventing discharge of guns, pistols, firecrackers or fireworks in the town limits.
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    22 Del. Laws 939 (1909)
    (1901)
    § 9: Authorized the town to regulate the storage of gunpowder and any other dangerous or combustible materials.
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    22 Del. Laws 945 (1901)
    (1901)
    § 18: Authorized the aldermen to extinguish and prevent bonfires in the streets, lanes, and alleys. The duty also included the suppression and preventing discharge of guns, pistols, firecrackers or fireworks in the town limits.
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    26 Del. Laws 28-29 (1911)
    (1911)
    § 2: Prohibited the sale of any pistol, revolver, pistol cartridges, revolver cartridges, stiletto, steel or brass knuckles, or other deadly weapons made especially for the defense of one's person, without having a license labeled "Special License to Sell Deadly Weapons." § 3: Prohibited the sale of firearms, ammunition, and other deadly weapons to minors and incompetent persons.
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    30 Del. Laws 484 (1919)
    (1918)
    Minors Under Fifteen Not to Use Gun Unless Accompanied by an Adult, § 2382 A. Sec. 25 A: Prohibited any minors under age fifteen from hunting game birds or game animals with a rifle or shotgun unless accompanied by an adult who is lawfully hunting.
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    30 Del. Laws 55-56 (1919)
    (1919)
    Prohibited the sale to any minor or intoxicated person, any revolver, pistol, revolver cartridge, pistol cartridge, stiletto, steel knuckles, brass knuckles, or other deadly weapons made for the defense of one's person.
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    25 Del. Laws 577 (1909)
    (1909)
    House Joint Resolution Providing for Increase in Non-Resident Gunners License Fee, ch. 271: Imposed licensing requirement for non-residents who " make it a practice to gun " in the state.
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    26 Del. Laws 324 (1911)
    (1911)
    Of Fish, Oysters and Game, § 8: Prohibited the unlawful shooting or killing of any birds or animals protected by laws of the state using any device, swivel, punt gun, or any gun other than shouldered weapons raised at arm's length. Also prohibited hunting with the aid of artificial light or lantern, dog, or dogs equipped with bells or other noise-producing device.
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    27 Del. Laws 439 (1913)
    (1913)
    § 18: Prohibited children under the age of 15 from being employed, permitted or suffered to work in any establishment manufacturing, compounding, or storing nitroglycerine, dynamite, dualin, guncotton, gunpowder, or other high or dangerous explosives.