NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 101

SENATE BILL 103

AN ACT PERMITTING CITIZENS OF THIS STATE TO PURCHASE RIFLES AND SHOTGUNS IN CONTIGUOUS STATES AND DEFINING ANTIQUE FIREARMS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  It shall be lawful for citizens of this State to purchase rifles and shotguns and ammunition therefor in states contiguous to this State.

Sec. 2.  The term "antique firearm" means any firearm manufactured in or before 1898 (including any matchlock, flintlock, percussion cap, or similar early type of ignition system) or replica thereof, whether actually manufactured before or after the year 1898; and also any firearm using fixed ammunition manufactured in or before 1898, for which ammunition is no longer manufactured in the United States and is not readily available in the ordinary channels of commercial trade.

Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  This Act shall be in full force and effect upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of March, 1969.