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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.
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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.
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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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    Ordinance 21, in Green Forest Tribune, May 11, 1899, at 1
    (1899)
    Prohibited the sale, barter, exchange, disposal or furnishing, or keeps any dirk, Bowie-knife, sword or spear in a cane, brass or metal knuckles, or any kind of pistol or cartridge. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor.
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    1890 Wyo. Terr. Sess. Laws, ch. 73, § 96 (codified at Wyo. Rev. Stat. § 5051 (1899))
    (1890)
    Every person, not being a traveler, who shall wear or carry any dirk, pistol, bowie knife, dagger, sword-in-cane, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon concealed, or who shall carry or wear any such weapon openly, with the intent, or avowed purpose, of injuring his fellow-man, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars
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    2 Albert G. Hodges, A Digest of the Statute Laws of Kentucky 1289-90 (1834)
    (1813)
    Prohibited the concealed carry of any pocket pistol, dirk, knife, or sword cane, unless traveling.
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    2 Albert G. Hodges, A Digest of the Statute Laws of Kentucky 1472 (1834)
    (1829)
    § 5 prohibited enslaved persons and other minorities from possessing firearms, subject to seizure. § 6 provided an exception for housekeepers and licensed individuals.
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    A Compilation of the Acts of the Legislature Incorporating the City of Macon, Georgia 60 (S. Rose & Co. 1862)
    (1862)
    Ordinance Against Carrying Deadly Weapons: That any white person who shall violate the Statutes of the State of Georgia now in force, relative to carrying about his or her person any deadly weapon mentioned in said Statutes, within the limits of the City of Macon, shall, for each offence, on proof thereof before the Mayor of said city, be fined by said Mayor in a sum of not less than fifty, nor more than one hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the common Jail of Bibb county or the Guard House of said city, for any period not exceeding one month, or both fined and imprisoned as aforesaid, in the discretion of the Mayor. And any slave or free person of color who shall carry about his or her person any deadly weapon of any description-such as are manufactured for purposes of offence or defence-within the limits of said city, shall be punished by whipping and imprisonment in the Guard House of said city, at the discretion of the Mayor-the whipping not to exceed seventy-five lashes, and the imprisonment not to exceed thirty days."

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