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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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Jurisdiction: search.filters.coverage.New HampshireCategory: search.filters.subject.TRANSFER, MANUFACTURE & STORAGE OF GUNPOWDER

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    1820 N.H. Laws 907
    (1820)
    An Act to Provide for the Appointment of Inspectors and Regulating the Manufacture of Gunpowder, ch. 24, §§ 1-9: Authorized the creation of "inspector of gunpowder" for public powder magazines and powder manufactories. Required gun powder manufactured in the state to be composed of certain qty/quality of materials. Authorized inspection of gunpowder. Bans sale of gunpowder not up to standards.
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    1825 N.H. Laws 73-4
    (1825)
    An Act to Regulate the Keeping and Selling, and Transporting of Gunpowder, § 2: Requiring storage of less than 75 pounds of gunpowder in tin cannister or other noncombustible vessel(s).
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    1811 N.H. Laws 74
    (1811)
    An Act To Regulate The Keeping And Selling, And Transporting of Gunpowder, chap. 61, §5: Banned sale or offer for sale of gunpowder in the night time, between sunsetting and sunrising; banned also dealing out any gunpowder at night.
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    1867 N.H. Gen. Stat. 206
    (1854)
    Ch. 98, §§ 1-4: Provided the board of firewards the ability to regulate the import/export of Gunpowder. Also prohibited the storage of gunpowder in quantities exceeding 25 pounds
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    1891 N.H. Pub. Stat. 332
    (1891)
    Ch. 117, § 7: Regulated the sale of gunpowder less than twenty-five pounds and sales in the night with a fine of not more than five dollars.

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