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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.

  • Legal sources: statutes and session laws, administrative code, attorney general opinions, appellate decisions, and select municipal ordinances.
  • Historical materials: newspapers, photographs, maps, catalogs, shipbuilding and manufacturing records, and oral histories tied to Delaware people and places.
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    14 Del. Laws 620 (1871)
    (1871)
    § 14: 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, pistols, fireworks, or throwing fireballs within the town limits.
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    14 Del. Laws 605 (1871)
    (1871)
    § 14: 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, pistols, fireworks, or throwing fireballs within the town limits.
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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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    14 Del. Laws 138 (1871)
    (1871)
    § 17: 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, pistols, fireworks, or throwing fireballs within the town limits.
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    14 Del. Laws 160 (1871)
    (1871)
    § 13: 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, pistols, fireworks, or throwing fireballs within the town limits.
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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 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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    1893 Del. Rev. Stat. 716
    (1893)
    Ch. 548: Prohibited the concealed carrying of deadly weapons or selling deadly weapons other than an ordinary pocket knife, and prohibited discharging any firearm in any public road. Punishable by fine of $25-100 or by imprisonment for 10-30 days.
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    1874 Del. Rev. Stat. 249
    (1874)
    § 5: Prohibited the discharge of a gun or pistol with any town, village, or within a mile of a town center, or within one mile of a "mill-dam" near a public road. Violators fined five dollars and jailed until the fine is paid.