FRC Jurisdictions Portal

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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.
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.

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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.

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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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1 Archives of Maryland 77 (William Hand Browne ed., 1885) (enacted 1639)
(1639)
Required "every housekeeeper" to keep and bear one gun of "bastard muskett boare" design, bandeloors or shott bag, one pound of powder, four pounds of pistol or musket shot, sufficient quantity of matchlocks & flints, a sword, and belt.
3 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1636-1667, at 345 (reprint 1965)
(1658)
Required that captains make "a perfect list" of "all persons able to beare Armes within theyr respective divisions that is of all men betweene 16 and 60 yeares of Age."
1 Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland 347 (William Hand Browne ed., 1883)
(1654)
All persons from 16 yeares of age to Sixty shall be provided with Serviceable Armes & Sufficient Amunition of Powder and Shott ready upon all occasions.
7 Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, October 1678-November 1683, at 53 (1889); see also 1698 Md. Acts 99
(1678)
Kept the militia ages "between sixteen and sixty yeares of age." Further required that each "appeare and bring with him one good serviceable fixed Gunn and six shoots of Powder." Troopers were required to bring their own horses, and "to find themselves with sword Carbine Pistolls Holsters & Amunition."
28 Archives of Maryland 349 (1745)
(1745)
prohibits firehunting by non-residents
Laws of Maryland, 1713; Ch. 44, Sect. 32, in The Black Code of the District of Columbia in Force September 1st, 1848, at 11 (1848)
(1713)
Prohibition on "Negro or other slave" from carrying a gun or offensive weapon off their master's land.
3 Archives of Maryland 255
(1648)
licenses previously issued for "killing of Wild Hoggs [e]mploying Indians to kill deere with Gunnes" both to residents and non-residents of Maryland "hath occasioned some inconvenience & hath given great offence to divers of the Inhabitants of this Province," all existing licenses were repealed
2 John Leeds Bozman, History of Maryland 116 (1837) (enacted 1639)
(1639)
Gave the inhabitants of Maryland, who are Christians, all rights, liberties, immunities, privileges, and free customs as naturally born Englishmen.
1715 Md. Laws 117
(1715)
An Act for the Speedy Trial of Criminals, and Ascertaining Their Punishment in the County Courts When Prosecuted There, and For Payment of Fees Due From Criminal Persons, ch. 26, § 32: Prohibited "any negro or other slave" from carrying any gun or offensive weapon off their master's land without a ticket.
1650 Md. Laws 273
(1650)
§ 5: Banned carry of weapons in the House of Assembly, while the Assembly was sitting.
3 Archives of Maryland 103 (1642)
(1642)
All housekeepers to provide an arm, sufficient powder, and ammo for each person able to bear arms. No man able to bear arms shall attend church or chappell or travel any considerable distance from home without an arm and at least one charge of powder and shott.
1 Archives of Maryland 343
(1654)
"Noe work shall be done on the Sabboth day but that which is of Necessity and Charity to be done no Inordinate Recreations as fowling, fishing, hunting or other, no shouting of Gunns be used on that day Except in Case of Necessity
7 Archives of Marland 51-2
(1678)
"Forasmuch as there is nothing more acceptable to almighty God then the true and Sincere Service & worship of him according to his holy will & fforasmuch as the Sanctifying or keepeing Holy of the Lords day comonly called Sunday is and hath been esteemed by the present & all primitive Christian Churches & people a principall and cheife part of the said Worship, which day in most places in this Province hath been & still is profaned and neglected by a wicked and disorderly sort of people by working Drunkeness swearing gameing vnlawfull pastimes and other Debaucheries to the high dishonnor of almighty God the Scandall of Christian Religion... That noe person or persons from & after the time aforesaid shall profane or abuse the said Lords day as aforesaid by Drunkeness Swearing gameing at Cards Dice Billiards Shuffell boards bowles Nynepins horserace fowling or hunting or any other vnlawfull Sportes or recreations "
1883 Md. Acts 273-74
(1650)
§ 5: Prohibited entering either chamber of legislature with any gun or weapon "upon perill of such fine or censure as the howses shall thinke fitt."
1715 Md. Laws 90
(1715)
An Act for the speedy trial of criminals, and ascertaining their punishment in the county courts when prosecuted there, and for payment of fees due from criminal persons, chap. 26, § 7: And, to prevent the abusing, hurting or worrying of any stock of hogs, cattle or horses, with dogs, or otherwise, Be It Enacted, That if any person or persons whatsoever, that have been convicted of any of the crimes aforesaid, or other crimes, or that shall be of evil fame, or a vagrant, or dissolute liver, that shall shoot, kill or hunt, or be seen to carry a gun, upon any person's land, whereon there shall be a seated plantation, without the owner's leave, having been once before warned, shall forfeit and pay one thousand pounds of tobacco...
26 Archives of Maryland 256 (1906)
(1704)
An Act relating to Servants and Slaves: "that every Man Servant shall at such time of expiration of his as aforesaid have allowed and given him..one Ax and one Gunne of twenty shillings price not above four foot by the barrell nor less than three and an half which said Gunn shall by the Master or Mistress in the presence of the ext Justice of the peace be delivered to such ffreeman under the penalty of five hundred pounds of Tobacco on such Master or Mistress omitting so to do and the like penalty on the said ffreeman selling or disposing thereof within the Space of twelve months..."
1647 Md. Laws 216, § 6
(1647)
Banned carry of weapons in the House of Assembly, while the Assembly was sitting.
1840 Md. Laws 763
(1715)
Ch. 40: Exempted from attachment, or any other execution whatsoever

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