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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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    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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    1884 Wyo. Terr. Sess. Laws 134
    (1884)
    [T]o regulate the storage of gun-powder, kerosene and other dangerous material[.]
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    1876 Wyo. Comp. Laws 352
    (1876)
    That hereafter it shall be unlawful for any resident of any city, town or village, or for any one not a resident of any city, town or village, in said territory, but a sojourner therein, to bear upon his person, concealed or openly, any fire arm or other deadly weapon, within the limits of any city, town or village.
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    1875 Wyo. Terr. Sess. Laws ch. 52, §1
    (1875)
    Prohibited the carry of any firearm or other deadly weapon with any city, town, or village.
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    List of Members, By-laws, and Reports of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association 32 (1887)
    (1887)
    That the custom of carrying firearms, except in the immediate vicinity of Indian reservations, should be discountenanced, and it is hereby made the duty of the members of this Association, foremen of round-ups, and foremen of ranges, to use every effort in their power to prevent the carrying of firearms by cattle men at all times and places except when absolutely necessary. Resolved, That the members of this Association hereby pledge themselves as far as in their power to carry out the spirit of this resolution."
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    1876 Wyo. Comp. Laws 273
    (1876)
    Prohibited the carrying of a pistol, knife, dirk, bludgeon, or other offensive weapon with the intent to assault a person. Punishable by fine up to $500 or imprisonment up to 6 months.
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    1884 Wyo. Terr. Sess. Laws 114
    (1884)
    Prohibited exhibiting in a threatening manner a fire-arm, Bowie knife, dirk, dagger, slungshot or other deadly weapon. Punishable by fine of $10-100 or imprisonment up to 6 months.
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    1879 Wyo. Terr. Sess. Laws 97
    (1879)
    It shall be unlawful for any person in this territory to fire any rifle, revolver, or other fire arm of any description whatever, from any window, door, or other part of any railroad car or train, engine or tender, or along the line of railroad during the passing of any train or engine, or when any person is passing in the vicinity of the person having such fire arm, and any person so offending, shall, on conviction, be fined in a sum not exceeding twenty ($20.00) dollars, and for a second offense, confined in the county jail for a term not exceeding sixty (60) days.