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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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    Charter of the City of Jackson 68 (1867)
    (1867)
    Imposed a $5 tax on pistols and bowie-kives.
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    1867 Miss. Laws 412
    (1867)
    Ch. 317: Imposed property tax on several arms. Every pistol has more than one barrel or revolver, two dollars. On every single barrel pistol, one dollar. On each rifle, shotgun, army gun, fifty cents. On each and every Bowie-knife, sword-cane, or dirk, two 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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    1867 Miss. Laws 327-28
    (1867)
    Ch. 249, § 1:[A] tax of not less than five dollars or more than fifteen dollars shall be levied and assessed annually by the board of Police of Washington county upon every gun and pistol which may be in the possession of any person in said county,
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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. . .