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Wyoming

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Wyoming. It supports research on the state’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from the territorial period through statehood to the present.

  • Legal sources: statutes and session laws, administrative rules, attorney general opinions, appellate decisions, and select municipal ordinances.
  • Historical materials: newspapers, photographs, maps, catalogs, frontier, ranching, railroad, mining, and energy-sector records, and oral histories tied to Wyoming people and places.
  • Research outputs: technical reports, academic studies, training manuals, and curated datasets relevant to the state.

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Jurisdiction: search.filters.coverage.WyomingEnd date: 1919

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    1882 Wyo. Sess. Laws 174
    (1882)
    Prohibited the exhibition of any kind of firearm, bowie knife, dirk, dagger, slung shot, or other deadly weapon in a rude, angry, or threatening manner not necessary for self defense of his person, his family, or property. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than ten but no more than five hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months or by both such fine and imprisonment.
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    1919 Wyo. Sess. Laws 17
    (1919)
    It shall be unlawful for any person or company to store any gunpowder or any other explosive material at a less distance than one thousand feet from any house or habitation, when more than fifty pounds are at the same place; but it shall be unlawful to place or to keep any powder or other explosive material, in any house or building occupied as a residence, or in any outbuilding pertaining thereto.
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    1915 Wyo. Sess. Laws ch. 91 sec. 13
    (1915)
    This law requires most non-citizens (aliens) in Wyoming to obtain a $25 annual gun and fish license before possessing firearms or fishing equipment, with exemptions for certain residents, taxpayers, settlers, employees, and holders of a $50 hunting license. Violations are punishable by fines of $25–$100, with imprisonment at the rate of one day per unpaid dollar until fines and costs are paid, and unauthorized firearms or fishing equipment may be seized and confiscated by law enforcement.
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    1899 Wyo. Rev. Stat. 1252, div. 5, tit. 1, ch. 3, § 5050
    (1899)
    Whoever draws or threatens to use any pistol, dirk, knife, slung-shot, or any other deadly or dangerous weapon, already drawn, upon any other person, shall be fined in a sum not more than one hundred dollars, to which may be added imprisonment in the county jail not more than six months; Provided, That the provisions of this section shall not apply to a person drawing or threatening to use such dangerous or deadly weapon in defense of his person or property, or in defense of those entitled to his protection by law.
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    1913 Wyo. Sess. Laws 165
    (1913)
    Required nonresidents obtain a license for $5 from the Justice of the Peace in order to hunt game birds in the state.
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    1899 Wyo. Rev. Stat. 1252, div. 5, tit. 1, ch. 3, § 5044
    (1899)
    Whoever fights a duel, if death do not ensue, shall be fined one hundred dollars, and be imprisoned in the county jail not more than one year.
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    1899 Wyo. Sess. Laws 32–33
    (1899)
    Allowed residents to receive hunting license for $1, non-residents to receive hunting license for $40.
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    1899 Wyo. Rev. Stat. 1253, div. 5, tit. 1, ch. 3, § 5052
    (1899)
    This law prohibits selling or giving concealed deadly weapons to people under 21 and pistol ammunition to people under 16. Violators may be fined up to $50.
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    1907 Wyo. Sess. Laws 96
    (1907)
    To regulate and prevent the transportation and storage of gunpowder or other explosive or combustible articles. . .
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    1899 Wyo. Rev. Stat. 1253, div. 5, tit. 1, ch. 3, § 5051
    (1899)
    Every person, not being a traveler, who shall wear or carry any dirk, pistol, bowie knife, dagger, sword-in-cane, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon concealed, or who shall carry or wear any such weapon openly, with the intent, or avowed purpose, of injuring his fellow- man, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars.
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    1899 Wyo. Rev. Stat. 600, div. 1, tit. 15, ch. 1, § 2106
    (1899)
    This law prohibits trapping ducks, geese, and swans, limits hunting of ducks and geese to a designated open season using only shoulder guns, and permanently bans the killing of wild swans. Violations are punishable by fines of $20–$50 per bird for illegal trapping, or $10–$25 per offense for unlawful hunting, with the possibility of up to 60 days in jail.