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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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    Ordinance No. III: Crimes and Misdemeanors, in Greenville Times, Dec. 31, 1881, at 2, § 6-8
    (1881)
    § 6: That it shall be unlawful to fly kites, play ball, throw missiles, or discharge any fire-arms, or other explosives, (except fireworks on national holidays) or cause dogs to fight in the streets of the town, or do any act to injure property, public or private, or make any noise on t h streets likely to frighten horses or mules, or alarm or injure persons, or impede the free passage of vehicles or persons, or to discharge any fire-arms within the town, unless in self-defense or defense of his property, or while in the legal execution of some law or ordinance;
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    1836 Miss. Rev. Stat. 453
    (1836)
    Ch. 19, tit. 10, art. 2, § 3: No person shall fire or discharge any gun, pistol, rockets, squib, cracker, or other firework, within a quarter of a mile of any building, on the twenty-fifth day of December, on the last day of December, on the first day of January, or on the twenty-second day of February, in any year; nor on the fourth day of July or such other day as shall at any time be celebrated as the anniversary of American independence
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    1833 Miss. Laws 231
    (1833)
    An Act To Amend An Act Entitled An Act To Incorporate The Town Of Gallatin . . . , ch. 98, § 3; That every person who shall willfully run any horse or fire any gun or pistol within said corporation, shall for the first offence, pay the sum of five dollars, and for the second offence, shall pay ten dollars, and double that for any other offence, to be recovered before the President of the Selectmen of said town; Provided, That no person shall be liable to the penalties for shooting, when the same may be accidental or necessary.