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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.
  • Research outputs: technical reports, academic studies, training manuals, and curated datasets relevant to the state.

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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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    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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    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[.]