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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.

  • Legal sources: statutes and session laws, administrative code, attorney general opinions, appellate decisions, and select municipal ordinances.
  • Historical materials: newspapers, photographs, maps, catalogs, frontier, river trade (Missouri–Mississippi), railroad and manufacturing records, and oral histories tied to Missouri people and places.
  • Research outputs: technical reports, academic studies, training manuals, and curated datasets relevant to the state.

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    Mo. Const. of 1820 art. XIII, § 3
    (1820)
    Declared that the right of the People to bear arms in defence of themselves and of the state shall not be questioned.
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    1818 Terr. of Mo. Laws 374
    (1818)
    Prohibited "slave or mulatto" from carrying a gun, powder, shot, club or other weapon and from possessing a gun or ammunition.
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    1818 Terr. of Mo. Laws 281
    (1818)
    Militia, § 4: Each militia man shall provide himself, with-in one month from the date of his enrollment with a good musket, a sufficient bayonet and belt, or a fusil, two spare flints, a knapsack and pouch with a box there-in to contain twentyfour cartridges suited to the bore of his musket or fusil, each cartridge to contain a pro-per quantity of powder and ball: or a good rifle, knap-sack, pouch and powder horn with twenty balls suited to the bore of his rifle, and a quarter of a pound of powe-der
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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[.]