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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.

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Start date: 1880

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    1887 N.M. Laws 56, § 2
    (1887)
    Ch. 30, § 2: Any person who shall draw a deadly weapon or another, or who shall handle a deadly weapon in a threatening manner, at or towards another, in any part of this territory, except it be in the lawful defense of himself, his family or his property, or under legal authority, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment at hard labor in the county fail or territorial penitentiary not less than three months nor more than eighteen months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court or jury trying the same.
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    1887 N.M. Laws 55-58
    (1887)
    Ch. 30, § 1: That any person who shall hereafter carry a deadly weapon, either concealed or otherwise, on or about the settlements of this territory, except it be in his or her residence, or on his or her landed estate, and in the lawful defense of his or her person, family or property, the same being then and there threatened with danger, or except such carrying be done by legal authority, upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars, nor more than three hundred, or by imprisonment not less than sixty days, nor more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court or jury trying the same.
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    1923 N.M. Laws 179, § 2
    (1923)
    Ch. 115, § 2: Provided that the use of explosives to destroy any building, structure, or train, or to injure or scare any human being constitutes a felony
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    1921 N.M. Laws 58-59
    (1921)
    Ch. 36, §§ 1-2: Any person who, with intent to commit crime, breaks and enters either by day or by night, any building whether inhabited or not, and opens or attempts to open any vault, safe or other secure place by use of nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gunpowder or any other explosive, shall be deemed guilty of burglary with explosives.
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    1909 N.M. Laws 333-34
    (1909)
    Ch. 117, § 8: That villages incorporated under this act shall have the power by ordinance, to prevent the presence within their limits of anything dangerous, offensive, unhealthy or indecent and to cause any nuisance to be abated; to regulate the transportation, storage and keeping of gun-powder and other combustibles and explosives, oils, gasoline and other articles which may endanger the property of such village[.]
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    1921 N.M. Laws 57-58
    (1921)
    Ch. 35, § 16: No game shall be pursued, taken, wounded or killed in the night, or with a steel or hard pointed bullet or with any weapon other than an ordinary shoulder gun or pistol, and the use of high powered rifles in hunting and taking migratory game birds is hereby prohibited.
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    1921 N.M. Laws 201-02
    (1921)
    Ch. 113, §§ 1-4: Prohibited the use, possession, or control of any shotgun or rifle by noncitizen; violators subject to fine, imprisonment, and confiscation and resale of shotgun or rifle
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    1915 N.M. Laws 153
    (1915)
    Ch. 101, §7: No person shall at any time shoot, hunt or take in any manner any wild animals or birds or game fish as herein defined in this state without first having in his or her possession a hunting license as hereinafter provided for the year in which such shooting, fishing or hunting is done. The presence of any person in any open field, prairie or forest, whether enclosed or not with traps, gun or other weapon for hunting, without having in possession a proper hunting license as herein provided, shall be prima facie evidence of the violation of this section.
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    Compiled Ordinances: Town of Albuquerque 81-82 (William C. Heacock ed., 1887)
    (1887)
    Chapter 21-Deadly Weapon, § 2: Deadly weapons, within the meaning of this preceding section, shall be construed to mean any and all kinds and classes of guns, pistols and revolvers, slung-shots, loaded or sword canes or sand-bags, and all kinds and classes of weapons and instruments, by whatever name they may be called, by which a dangerous wound can be inflicted.
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    1923 N.M. Laws 179, § 1
    (1923)
    Ch. 115, § 1: Any person who knowingly transports or takes into or upon any public service passenger car or passenger coach in the State of New Mexico, any bomb, dynamite, nitro-glycerine, vigorite, Giant or Hercules powder, gunpowder or other chemical compound or explosive shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of not less than three years nor more than five years.
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    1882 N.M. Laws 313
    (1882)
    Ch. 61, Deadly Weapons. Act of 1869, Ch. 32, § 4: Any person who shall draw a deadly weapon on another, or who shall handle a deadly weapon in a threatening manner at or towards another, in any part of this Territory, except in the lawful defense of himself, his family, or his property, or by order of legal authority, upon conviction thereof before the proper tribunal, shall, for each offense, be fined in a sum not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than seventy-five dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term of not less than twenty days or more than sixty days, or be punished by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the jury trying the case. § 5. Any person who shall draw or use any deadly weapon in any ball, dance, or other public gathering of the people, or near where any election authorized by law is being held in any part of the Territory, except it be in the lawful defense of himself, his family, or his property, or in obedience to legal authority, shall, upon conviction before the proper tribunal, be punished by a fine not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term of not less than one month nor more than three months for each offense, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the jury trying the cause.