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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.

Scope of Content

  • Legal sources: statutes and session laws, administrative code, attorney general opinions, appellate decisions, and selected municipal ordinances.
  • Historical materials: newspapers, photographs, maps, catalogs, company records, and oral histories tied to specific places and periods.
  • Research outputs: FRC reports, datasets, and interpretive materials that contextualize legal and technical developments.

How to Use

  • Browse: open a jurisdiction collection to view items for that state, territory, DC, or the federal jurisdiction.
  • Search: use keywords and filter by Jurisdiction, Date Issued, and Category. Record any Exceptions noted for applicability.
  • Cite: use the item’s identifier and provided links (Original Source and Duke reference) when available.

Metadata & Standards

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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    Nathaniel Pope, Laws of the Territory of Illinois 154 (1815)
    (1815)
    Prohibited to trade or gift any horse mare, gun tommahawk, knife, blanket, shrouding, calico, saddle, bridle, or any goods wares or merchandize with the Kaskasia Indians. All such sales and gifts shall be considered fraudulent. Violators fined twenty dollars.
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    Laws Passed in the Territory of the United States North-West of the River Ohio 37-38 (1792)
    (1791)
    An Act . . . To prevent the selling or pawning of arms, ammunition, cloathing, and accoutrements, Chapter XII, Sec. 2: Prohibited the purchase of public arms, ammunition, clothing, or accoutrements pertaining to non-commissioned officers or private soldiers in service. Violators shall be fined the value and costs of the articles on the first violation. Proceeding violators shall pay fines and costs of articles and shall suffer imprisonment not exceeding one month.
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    Laws Passed in the Territory of the United States North-West of the River Ohio 30-31 (1792)
    (1788)
    A Law for regulating and establishing the Militia in the Territory of the United States north-west of the river Ohio, Chapter VIII: Required all males aged sixteen and upwards to be equipped and accoutred with a musket, bayonet, rifle, cartridge box and pouch, powder horn and bullet pouch, with forty rounds of cartridges, or one pound of powder and four pounds of lead, priming wire, and brush with six flints.
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    Nathaniel Pope, Laws of the Territory of Illinois 25 (1815)
    (1810)
    An Act to suppress duelling, Adopted from the Virginia Code: Prohibited fighting or agreeing to fight in a duel with any engine instrument or weapon where the probably consequences might be death of either party, and in doing so shall kill his antagonist or any other person, or inflict such a wound that the person injured shall die thereof within three months. Any violators, their aiders, abettors, and councillors thereof duly convicted shall be guilty of murder and suffer death by hanging.
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    2d General Assembly, Illinois Territory, An Act Prohibiting Trade with the Indians (1813)
    (1813)
    An act prohibiting the trading with Indians, Sec. 2: Prohibited trading or bartering a gun or other article commonly use for hunting with tribes. Also prohibited any instrument of husbandry or cooking utensil, or clothing or horse. Violators forfeit the item and pay any sum not less than ten nor exceeding fifty dollars.

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Unless otherwise stated, the Firearms Research Center (FRC) does not claim copyright over materials in this community. Rights status may vary by item and jurisdiction.

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