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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.
  • Research outputs: technical reports, academic studies, training manuals, and curated datasets relevant to the state.

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  • Item type:Item,
    W.B. Hvland, Wilmington City Code: The Ordinances of the City of Wilmington, Delaware 688-89 (1885)
    (1885)
    Required supplying retailers to be in kegs, not more than twenty-five pounds, carefully enclosed in good bags, or by putting a sheet of canvas under and around the kegs. When transporting gunpowder the carriage shall contain no more than ten kegs as described above.
  • Item type:Item,
    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.
  • Item type:Item,
    22 Del. Laws 403 (1901)
    (1901)
    § 9: Authorized the town to regulate the storage of gunpowder and any other dangerous or combustible materials.
  • Item type:Item,
    22 Del. Laws 381 (1901)
    (1901)
    § 9: Authorized the town to regulate the storage of gunpowder and any other dangerous or combustible materials.
  • Item type:Item,
    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.
  • Item type:Item,
    22 Del. Laws 939 (1909)
    (1901)
    § 9: Authorized the town to regulate the storage of gunpowder and any other dangerous or combustible materials.
  • Item type:Item,
    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.§