Clayton Craymer is looking for a copy of Acts Passed in Tennessee in 1801

Clayton Cramer is a well known historian who debunked the idea that guns were rare in colonial America.  He has been at the forefront of defending Second Amendment rights.

He is working on a presentation for a California law brief, and needs access to the laws passed in Tennessee in 1801. Many libraries have copies of the document in some sort of non-digital storage media; he is trying to obtain a copy and has asked for assistance.

He only needs copies of three pages, 259-261.

The copy of the law is needed to fight the California government’s activism against gun ownership.

From Clayton’s Blog:

If you have access to a library on this list:  https://www.worldcat.org/title/acts-passed-at-the-first-session-of-the-fourth-general-assembly-of-the-state-of-tennessee-begun-and-held-at-knoxville-on-monday-the-21st-day-of-september-1801/oclc/1013278454&referer=brief_results; could I cajole you into going there, and photocopying or scanning the title page and pp. 259-61?  And yes, this is about putting a torpedo through the California Attorney-General’s powder magazine.  UC Berkeley and Stanford libraries have it either on microfilm or microprint.  I know that Berkeley has (or had) microprint printers (even rarer than the readers).

Or if your university has a subscription to Early American Imprints, that would be a lot easier to get those pages.

Link to list of libraries with this document

Dean Weingarten