Wyoming
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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.
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Item type:Item, 1890 Wyo. Terr. Sess. Laws, ch. 73, § 96 (codified at Wyo. Rev. Stat. § 5051 (1899))(1890)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 dollarsItem type:Item, 1890 Wyo. Terr. Sess. Laws, ch. 73, § 95 (codified at Wyo. Rev. Stat. § 5050 (1899))(1890)Whoever draws or threatens to use any pistol, dirk, knife, slung-shot, or other deadly or dangerous weapon, already drawn, upon any person, shall be fined in any sum not more than one hundred dollars to which may be added imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six monthsItem type:Item, 1890 Wyo. Terr. Sess. Laws, ch. 73, § 97 (codified at Wyo. Rev. Stat. § 5052 (1899))(1890)It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, barter or give to any other person under the age of twenty-one years any pistol, dirk or bowie knife, slung-shot, knucks or other deadly weapon that can be worn or carried concealed upon or about the person, or to sell, barter or give to any person under the age of sixteen years any cartridges manufactured and designed for use in a pistol.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 1884 Wyo. Terr. Sess. Laws 134(1884)[T]o regulate the storage of gun-powder, kerosene and other dangerous material[.]Item type:Item, 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."Item type:Item, A. McMicken, The Revised Ordinances of the City of Rawlins 115-116 (1893)(1893)If any person shall within this city fire or discharge any cannon, gun, fowling piece, pistol or firearms of any description, or fire, explode, or set off any squib, cracker, or anything containing powder or other combustible or explosive material, without permission of the Board of Trustees, or the written permission of the mayor (which permission shall limit the time of the firing and shall be subject to be revoked by the mayor or Board of Trustees at any time after the same has been granted) every such person shall, on conviction, be fined in a sum of not less than five dollars and not exceeding one hundred dollars.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, A. McMicken, The Revised Ordinances of the City of Rawlins 131–32 (1893)(1893)Prohibited a person from possessing or carrying a pistol, revolver, knife, slungshot, bludgeon or other lethal weapon. Punishable by fine up to $100 or imprisonment up to 30 days.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 1899 Wyo. Sess. Laws 32–33(1899)Allowed residents to receive hunting license for $1, non-residents to receive hunting license for $40.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.