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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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  • Item type:Item,
    Amendments to the Charter and Revised Ordinances of the City of Jackson 16-17 (1882)
    (1882)
    Required the city assessor to prepare separate real and personal property assessment rolls, including separate columns listing and valuing pistols, dirks, bowie-knives, sword-canes, and other guns.
  • Item type:Item,
    1892 Miss. Laws 193-4, 198
    (1892)
    Ch. 74: Mandated tax assessors to have prepared rolls of taxable items, including guns(more than one), pistols, Bowie knives, dirks, and sword canes.
  • Item type:Item,
    1878 Miss. Laws 27, 29
    (1878)
    Ch. 3, §§ 8, 12: Mandated tax assessors to have prepared lists of taxable items, including pistols, Bowie knives, dirks, and sword canes.
  • Item type:Item,
    1880 Miss. Laws 21
    (1880)
    Ch. 6, § 7: Mandated tax assessors to have prepared rolls of taxable items, including pistols, Bowie knives, dirks, and sword canes.
  • Item type:Item,
    1876 Miss. Laws 131, 134
    (1876)
    Ch. 304: Allowed the Auditor of Public Accounts to create assessment rolls for property subject to taxation, including pistols, dirks, bowie knives, and sword canes.
  • Item type:Item,
    1871 Miss. Laws 819-20
    (1871)
    Ch. 33, art. 3, § 1: Imposed property tax on pistols, dirks, Bowie knives, and sword canes.