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Missouri

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Missouri. 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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    St. Louis, Mo., Rev. Ordinances no. 4868, art. 2, § 8 (1861)
    (1861)
    Misdemeanors, § 8: Hereafter it shall not be lawful for any person to wear under his clothes, or concealed about his person, any pistol, or colt, or slung-shot, or cross-knuckles, or knuckles of lead, brass, or other metal, or bowie knife, dirk knife, or dirk, or dagger, or any knife resembling a bowie knife, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon, within the city of Saint Louis
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    The Acts of Assembly Incorporating the City of Saint Louis, and the Ordinances of the City 35 (1828)
    (1823)
    No. 1, ch. 22, § 1: Be it ordained by the Mayor and board of Aldermen of the city of Saint Louis, That no store or shopkeeper, or other person or persons, shall keep, at the same time, in any house, shop, store, cellar or warehouse, or in any boat, more than thirty pounds of gunpowder, within the limits of the City.
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    1822 Mo. Laws 41-42
    (1822)
    An Act To Incorporate Inhabitants Of The Town Of Saint Louis, § 12: The Mayor and Board of Aldermen, shall have power by ordinance, to . . . regulate . . . the storage of gun powder, tar, pitch, rosin, hemp, cotton and other combustible materials[.]
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    St. Louis, Mo., Rev. Ordinances ch. 20, art. 2, § 9 (1871)
    (1871)
    Ordinances of the City of Saint Louis, Misdemeanors, § 9: Hereafter it shall not be lawful for any person to wear under his clothes, or concealed about his person, any pistol, or revolver, colt, billy, slung shot, cross knuckles, or knuckles of lead, brass or other metal, bowie knife, razor, dirk knife, dirk, dagger, or any knife resembling a bowie knife, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon, within the City of Saint Louis, without written permission from the Mayor
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    Adam B. Chambers, The Revised Ordinances of the City of Saint Louis 304 (1843)
    (1843)
    [Ordinances of Kansas City, Misdemeanors, § 10: Every person who shall discharge any cannon or other ordinance, or fire off any carbine, fusil, rifle, musket, gun, pistol, or other arms, or set off any squib or cracker, or fly any kite in the air, within the city, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. This section shall not apply to the firing of salutes by any military corps, or to the firing of salutes upon any occasion of general public interest.