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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1925 W. Va. Acts 30-31
(1925)
Ch. 3, § 7(b): Prohibited publicly displaying for rent or sale any revolver, pistol, dirk, Bowie knife, slungshot, other dangerous weapon, machine gun, submachine gun, or high powered rifle. Requires dealers to keep a register. Prohibited selling, renting, giving, or lending any of these weapons to an unnaturalized person.
1899 Annotated Statutes of the Indian Territory, at 757, ch. 136, § 4345
(1899)
Every person other than an Indian, who within the Indian country, purchases or receives of any Indian in the way of barter, trade or pledge, a gun, trap or other article commonly used in hunting, any instrument of husbandry, or cooking utensils of the kind commonly obtained by the Indians in the intercourse with the white people, or any article of clothing except skins or furs, shall be liable to penalty of fifty dollars.
1923 N.D. Laws 380-83
(1923)
Ch. 266, § 2: Commiting Crime When Armed. If any person shall commit or attempt to commit a crime when armed with a pistol or revolver, and having no permit to carry the same, he shall be in addition to the punishment provided for the crime, be punished by imprisonment for not less than ten years.
1923 N.H. Laws 138-141
(1923)
Provided that sections 1-13 of the act should not apply to antique pistols or revolvers used as such
1917 N.H. Laws 727-30
(1917)
An Act for the Regulation of the Sale and Use of Explosives and Firearms, ch. 185, § 2: No such licensed person shall sell or deliver firearms to any person not a citizen of the United States, unless he shall have legally declared his intention of becoming a citizen, or any such explosive material or compound to any person, except upon presentation of a permit such as is hereinafter provided for, nor unless satisfied that the same is to be used for a lawful purpose.
1878 Miss. Laws 175-6
(1878)
Ch.46 § 1: Prohibited the carrying of a concealed Bowie knife, pistol, brass knuckles, slungshot or other deadly weapon. Excepted travels other than "a tramp." Punishable by fine of $5-100.
1878 Miss. Laws 175-76
(1878)
An Act To Prevent The Carrying Of Concealed Weapons And For Other Purposes, ch. 46, § 2: Prohibited the sale of any Bowie knife, pistol, brass knuckles, slung shot, or other deadly weapon of like kind to any minor or intoxicated person.
1922 Mass. Acts 563
(1922)
Ch. 485, An Act Relative to the Sale and Carrying of Firearms, ch. 485, § 8 (amending § 130): Prohibited the sale or furnishing of firearms, air guns, or dangerous weapons to minors under age 15 or noncitizens without a permit to carry firearms; violators subject to fine. Law does not apply to instructors furnishing military weapons to pupils for instruction or drill.
An Act Defining Crime and Punishments, 130, Ch. 49, Sec. 72, in Revised Statutes of the Territory of Iowa (Reprint 1911)
(1843)
Prohibited aiding prisoners in jail from escaping by, among other methods, conveying instruments or arms. Violators fined not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars and imprisoned in the penitentiary at hard labor for a term not exceeding two years.
1925 Ind. Acts 495-501
(1925)
Prohibited the sale, delivery, or otherwise transfer of a pistol or revolver to a person who he or she has reasonable cause believe is either not a citizen or is a felon. Violatos fined not less than one hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
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.
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.
30 Del. Laws 55-56 (1919)
(1919)
Prohibited the sale to any minor or intoxicated person, any revolver, pistol, revolver cartridge, pistol cartridge, stiletto, steel knuckles, brass knuckles, or other deadly weapons made for the defense of one's person.
1 Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut 2, 79 (J. Hammond Trumbull ed., 1850) (enacted 1644)
(1665)
Prohibited the repairing, selling, and giving "any Indian" a gun or ammunition, punishable by fine.
1 Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut 113-14 (J. Hammond Trumbull ed., 1850) (enacted 1644)
(1644)
§ 130: Prohibited selling or trading "to the Indeans," nor any Dutch or Frenchman any guns, pistols, and other warlike instruments. Violators fined "twenty for one" and corporal punishment at the court's discretion.
1 Zephaniah Swift, A Digest of the Laws of the State of Connecticut 552 (1822)
(1822)
Chapter X, Trespass on the Case: Required guns to be made innoxious before transferring to an "incautious person."
Ariz. Rev. Stat. tit. X, § 362 (1901)
(1901)
Prohibited the selling, giving, renting, bartering, or furnishing of any rifles, carbines, pistols, revolvers, ammunition, or cartridges to Indians. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment not less than one or more than six months, or by fine not less than fifty nor more than three hundred dollars, or both.

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