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New Mexico

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to New Mexico. It supports research on the state’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from Spanish and Mexican periods through territorial years, statehood, and 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, frontier, military, ranching, mining, and railroad records, and oral histories tied to New Mexico people and places.
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    1858-1859 N.M. Laws 68, ch. 26, § 7
    (1858)
    Prohibited any person to transfer to "any slave any sword, dirk, bowie-knife, gun, pistol or other fire arms, or any other kind of deadly weapon of offence, or any ammunition of any kind suitable for fire arms."
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    1859 N.M. Laws 94-96, § 4
    (1859)
    An Act prohibiting the carrying of Weapons, concealed or other-wise, § 4: Be it further enacted: That if any person in any baile or fandango, or in any public assembly of whatever class or description it may be, shall fire off or discharge any firearm of the class mentioned in the first section of this act, or shall cut or wound any person with any description of deadly weapon mentioned in the first section of this act, in any baile or fandango, or in any other public assembly, and any death shall result from said cut or wound so given, the person who shall so wound or cut, on conviction, shall be considered guilty of murder in the first degree, and shall suffer the penalty of death in the said first degree.
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    1852 Terr. of N.M. Laws 66-69, § 1
    (1853)
    An Act Prohibiting the Carrying a Certain Class of Arms, within the Settlements and in Balls, § 1: That each and every person is prohibited from carrying short arms, such as pistols, daggers, knives, and other deadly weapons, about their persons concealed, within the settlements, and any person who violates the provisions of this act, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding ten dollars, nor less than two dollars, or shall be imprisoned for a term not exceeding fifteen days nor less than five days.
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    1852 Terr. of N.M. Laws 66-69, § 3
    (1852)
    An Act Prohibiting the Carrying a Certain Class of Arms, within the Settlements and in Balls, § 3: Required those giving balls or fandangos to remove individuals armed with fire arms or other deadly weapons when liquor is sold.
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    1869 N.M. Laws 72
    (1869)
    Ch. 32, §§ 1-2: Prohibited the carry of deadly weapons. Deadly weapons shall be defined as all classes of pistols, revolver, repeater, derringer, or any other kind of pistol, Bowie-knives, daggers, poniards, butcher knives, dirks, "all weapons in which cuts can be give or by which wounds can be inflicted by thrusting," sword-canes, slung-shots, and any other kinds of deadly weapons.
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    1853 Terr. of N.M. Laws 406
    (1853)
    An Act Prohibiting the Carrying of Weapons Concealed or Otherwise, § 25: Prohibited the carrying of a concealed pistol, Bowie knife (cuchillo de cinto), Arkansas toothpick, Spanish dagger, slungshot, or any other deadly weapon.
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    1864-1865 Terr. of N.M. Laws 406-08
    (1864)
    Ch. 61, § 25: It shall be unlawful for any person to carry concealed weapons on their persons, or any class of pistols whatever, bowie knife (cuchillo de cinto), Arkansas toothpick, Spanish dagger, slungshot, or any other deadly weapon, of whatever class or description that may be, no matter by what name they may be known or called, under the penalties and punishment which shall hereinafter be described.
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    1851 Terr. of N.M. Laws 10
    (1851)
    An Act Incorporating the City of Santa Fe, § 7: The board of common councilors shall have power to pass By-Laws and Ordinances . . . to prohibit the firing of fire-arms . . . to regulate and prescribe the quantities and places in which gun-powder or other dangerous combustible[s] may be kept[.]