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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.

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Start date: 1890Category: search.filters.subject.HUNTING REGULATION

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    1921 Wyo. Sess. Laws 112–13
    (1921)
    It shall be unlawful for any person to take into the game fields or forests of this State, or have in possession while in the game fields or forests of this State, or to have in possession while out for the purpose of hunting the game animals or game birds of this State any device or mechanism designed to silence or muffle or minimize the report of any firearm, whether such device or mechanism be separated or attached to any firearm or not.
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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. 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. 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.