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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.

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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 No. 32, art. 3, § 1: Offenses Against Public Convenience, in The Daily Morning Alaskan, June 18, 1903, at 2
    (1903)
    Discharging firearms, fireworks, or explosives in Skagway required municipal permission; blasting also required a bond. Violators committed a misdemeanor punishable by up to $200, 90 days' jail, or both.
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    Concerning Firearms, in Alameda Encinal, May 3, 1882, at 3
    (1882)
    Prohibited firing firearms, pistols, or cannons on streets, wharves, or private property without owner consent, punishable by up to a $50 fine, 25 days' imprisonment, or both.
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    A Compilation of the Acts of the Legislature Incorporating the City of Macon, Georgia 47 (S. Rose & Co. 1862)
    (1862)
    Nuisances § 5: It shall not be lawful for any person to fire a gun, pistol, or any other fire arms, within§three hundred yards of any house, except in cases of military parade; nor shall any person burn rockets, crackers, or any kind of fire works within the limits of the city. Any person so offending shall be fined in§a sum not exceeding twenty dollars."
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    1672-1714 Conn. Acts 3
    (1714)
    Prohibited falsely alarming the colony by firing any gun or guns, at any time between the shutting in the Evening or break of day. Violators fined five pounds or two months imprisonment, or other Corporal punishment.
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    New Advertisements, in Los Angeles Tri-Weekly News, July 22, 1865, at 2
    (1865)
    named Ordinance, §§ 1-3, & Unnamed Revised Ordinance, Article 5, § 2. Passed July 17, 1856. Volume 13, Number 12: Prohibited the concealed carry any dirk, pistol, sword-cane, slung-shot, or other dangerous or deadly weapons. Violators fined not more than one hundred dollars and imprisonment at the discretion of the mayor, not exceeding ten days. Also prohibited discharge any pistol, gun, rifle, other description of firearms, or air gun. Violators fined five dollars for the first offense, ten dollars for the second offense, and the third offense not more than fifty dollars, and imprisonment at the discretion of the mayor not exceeding ten days.
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    An Ordinance to Prevent the Firing of Guns, and Running of Horses, §§ 1-2, in The Arkansas Advocate, Mar. 7, 1832, at 4
    (1832)
    §Be it ordained by the Mayor and Town Council of the town of Little Rock, That if any free person shall wantonly fire or shoot off any gun, pistol, or other fire arms, within the bounds of the corporation of the town of Little Rock; or if any person shall run, gallop or canter, any horse, mare, gelding, mule, jack or jenny, through any of the public squares, streets or alleys, of said town, he or she, if free, shall on conviction before the Mayer of the town, forfeit and pay for each offence a sum not exceeding§ten dollars, and shall moreover stand committed until the same be paid together with the attendant costs; and if a slave be guilty of any of the above offences, he or she shall, for each offence, receive on his or her bare back,§ten§stripes or lashes, to be well laid on by the town constable.

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