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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 This repository includes research studies, historical documents, and scholarly works that explore the development, culture, and contributions of these regions to the nation's history.

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    Federal Firearms Act, 52 Stat. 1250-51 (1938)
    (General Publisher, 1938)
    Prohibited any person who has been convicted of a “crime of violence or is a fug[a]tive from justice” from receiving “any firearm or ammunition” which has been shipped in interstate commerce.
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    1 Fed. Reg. 668, 674, National Park Service Rules and Regulations (1936) § 8
    (General Publisher, 1936)
    Prohibited firearms, explosives, traps, seines, and nets within the parks and monuments under federal control.
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    National Firearms Act (1934) 48 Stat. 1236
    (General Publisher, 1934)
    Heavily regulated the use of Machine Guns, Short Barrel Shotguns, Short Barrel Rifles, Suppressors, etc. Also established a $200 tax stamp for registration purposes.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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."
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    §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.”
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.