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Mississippi

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Mississippi. It supports research on the state’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from the territorial 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, river trade and port records, agricultural and manufacturing archives, Civil War and Reconstruction collections, and oral histories tied to Mississippi people and places.
  • Research outputs: technical reports, academic studies, training manuals, and curated datasets relevant to the state.

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    1840 Miss. Laws 181
    (1840)
    Ch. 111, § 5: Authorized the town of Hernando to enact restrictions on the carrying of dirks, Bowie knives, or pistols.
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    Volney Erskine Howard, The Statutes of the State of Mississippi 676 (1840)
    (1840)
    § 55 : If any person having or carrying any dirk, dirk knife, Bowie knife, sword, sword cane, or other deadly weapon, shall, in the presence of three or more persons, exhibit the same in a rude, angry and threatening manner, not in necessary self-defense, or shall in any manner unlawfully use the same in any fight or quarrel, the person or persons so offending, upon conviction thereof in the circuit or criminal court of the proper county, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, and be imprisoned not exceeding three months.
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    1841 Miss. Laws 52
    (1841)
    Ch. 1, § 1: Imposed an annual property tax of $1 on each Bowie knife.
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    1857 Miss. Rev. Code 610
    (1857)
    § 48, art. 229: If any person shall be found hunting with a gun, on the Sabbath, he shall, on convicted thereof, be fined not less than five, nor more than twenty dollars.
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    1854 Miss. Laws 49-50
    (1854)
    Imposed an annual property tax of $1 on each Bowie knife, Arkansas toothpick, sword cane, and dueling or pocket pistol.
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    1857 Miss. Rev. Code 73
    (1856)
    Imposed an annual property tax of $1 on each Bowie knife, dirk knife, or sword cane.
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    1850 Miss. Laws 43
    (1850)
    Imposed an annual property tax of 50 cents on each Bowie knife.
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    A. Hutchinson, Code of Mississippi 182 (1848)
    (1844)
    Ch. 8, § 1: A tax of two dollars on each dueling or pocket pistol, except such as are kept for sale by merchants, artisans, or kept for use by military companies. . .
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    1852 Miss. Laws 328
    (1852)
    Act of Mar. 15, 1852, ch. 206: Prohibited issuing licenses to "negroes" to carry and use firearms.