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The Federal Repository is dedicated to preserving historical, academic, and cultural materials related to the federal government and its jurisdictions, including the District of Columbia and other federal territories. This repository includes research studies, historical documents, and scholarly works that explore the development, culture, and contributions of these regions to the nation's history.
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Item Open Access The Charter of New England (1620).(General Publisher, 1620)Granted subjects all liberties, franchises, and immunities of free denizens. Also granted subjects the right to take, load, carry, transport armour, weapons, ordinances, muniiton, poweder, shott, victuals,and "all other things" necessary for the use and defense of the people.Item Open Access An Act To Prohibit the Manufacture, Distribution, Storage, Use, and Possession in Time of War of Explosives, Proving Regulations for the Safe Manufacture, Distribution, Storage, Use, and Possession of the Same, and for Other Purposes, 40 Stat. 385 (1917), ch. 83(General Publisher, 1917)During war, prohibited the manufacture, distribution, storage, use, possession of powder, explosives, blasting supplies, or ingredients thereof in such a manner detrimental to the public safety.Item Open Access 27 Stat. 116–17, ch. 159 (July 13, 1892).(General Publisher, 1892)Prohibited concealed carry of deadly or dangerous weapons in the District of Columbia such as daggers, air-guns, pistols, Bowie-knives, dirk-knives, dirks, blackjacks, razors, razor blades, sword-canes, slung-shots, brass knuckles, other metal knuckles. Also banned the sale of deadly weapons to minors. Vendors were required to be licensed.Item Open Access Civil Rights Act of 1871(General Publisher, 1871)Discussion of the law and amendments in Congress used by the Court in DC v Heller to further instruct on the "well-known consitutional provision guaranteeing the right of the citizen to 'keep and bear arms,' and provides that whoever shall take away, by force or violence, r by threats and intimidation, the arms and weapons which any person may have for his defense, shall be deemed guilty of larceny of the same."Item Open Access §14, 14 Stat. 176 (1866)(General Publisher, 1868)Reaffirmed that freedmen were entited to “full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings concerning personal liberty [and] personal security . . . including the constitutional right to keep and bear arms.”Item Open Access Freedmen's Bureau Act on July 16, 1866, §14(General Publisher, 1866)Declared that full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings concerning personal liberty, security, acquisition, enjoyment, and disposition of estate, including the right to bear arms, shall be secured and enjoyed by all citizens.Without respect to race, color, or previous status as a slave.Item Open Access Cong. Globe, 39th Cong., 1st Sess., at 908-909(General Publisher, 1866)Decree by Generel D.E. Sickles pre-empting South Carolina's Black Codes: Guaranteed the constitutional rights of all loyal and well-disposed inhabitants to bear arms will not be infringed. Did not construe to sanction carrying concealed weapons, or the carrying of weapons by disorderly persons, vagrants, or disturbers of the peace.Item Open Access Civil Rights Act of 1866 CHAP. XXXI.—An Act to protect all Persons in the United States in their Civil Rights, and furnish the Means of their Vindication.(General Publisher, 1866)Guaranteed "full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property, as is enjoyed by white citizens. Used by the Court to show language virtually identical to the Freedman's Bureau Act and covered the same rights.Item Open Access Act of May 8, 1792, 1 Stat. 271(General Publisher, 1792)The first Miltiia Act, used by Congress to mandate who must be enrolled within the militia.Item Open Access Letter from George Washington to Henry Knox (Nov. 30, 1780), in The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources 1745-1799 (John C. Fitzpatrick, ed.)(General Publisher, 1780)An order to repair and prove old arms before delivery.