"Then came, Oscar, the time of the guns.
    And there was no land for a man, no land for a country,
    Unless guns sprang up
    And spoke their language.
The how of running the world was all in guns."

- Carl Sandburg

Introduction

The goal of my project is to understand the gun culture of 17th- and 18th-century America.

Regulation

Who can own a gun?

Where can guns (not) be carried?

Other regulations?

Type of gun? Purpose of use?

Long Guns

The Militia

Documents

• The Colonial Laws of Massachusetts
This document contains selections from the Colonial Laws of Massachusetts, 1641 - 1686. Blank pages indicate where parts have been omitted from the original text. The full text can be found at Archive.org.

-- JuliaS - 25 Oct 2009

• MassLawExcerpts(lowres).pdf: Excerpts from the Colonial Laws of Massachusetts