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This top community organizes Firearms Research Center holdings by jurisdiction. It provides separate collections for U.S. states, territories, the District of Columbia, and the federal jurisdiction, spanning the territorial period to the present.

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  • Legal sources: statutes and session laws, administrative code, attorney general opinions, appellate decisions, and selected municipal ordinances.
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  • Browse: open a jurisdiction collection to view items for that state, territory, DC, or the federal jurisdiction.
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Items are described using Dublin Core with standardized fields for Jurisdiction, Date Issued, Category, and Exceptions to support precise discovery and comparison.

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Jurisdiction: search.filters.coverage.GeorgiaCategory: search.filters.subject.CARRY - CONCEALED

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    1898 Ga. Laws 60
    (1898)
    No. 106: Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, dirk, sword cane, spear, Bowie knife, other kind of knife "manufactured and sold for purpose of offense and defense," and any "kind of metal knucks."
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    1882-83 Ga. Laws 48-49
    (1883)
    Prohibited the concealed carrying of any "pistol, dirk, sword in a cane, spear, Bowie-knife, or any other kind of knives manufactured and sold for the purpose of offense and defense."
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    1882-83 Ga. Laws 48, reprinted in 6 Park's Annotated Code of the State of Georgia 232 (1915)
    (1882)
    § 347 (§ 341) : Prohibited carrying concealed any kind of metal knucks, pistol, dirk, sword in a cane, spear, bowie-knife or any other kind of knives manufactured and sold for the purpose of offense and defense. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor.
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    1873 Ga. Code 817-18
    (1870)
    Section 4527 prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, dirk, sword in a cane, spear, Bowie knife, or any other kind of knives manufactured and sold for the purpose of offense or defense. Section 4528 prohibited the carrying of any dirk, Bowie knife, pistol, or other deadly weapon to a court, election site, precinct, place of worship, or other public gathering site. Punishable by fine of $20-50 or imprisonment for 10-20 days.
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    1861 Ga. Code 858
    (1861)
    §4413: Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, dirk, sword-cane, spear, Bowie-knife, or any other kids of knives manufactured for offense or defense. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor
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    1851-52 Ga. Acts 269
    (1852)
    No. 165: Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, dirk, sword in a cane, spear, Bowie knife, or any other kind of knives manufactured and sold for the purpose of offense or defense.

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