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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[.]
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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.
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    1840 Mo. Laws 193-94
    (1840)
    An Act To Incorporate The Rural Cemetery Association, § 7.: Any person who shall willfully . . . shoot or discharge any gun or other fire arms within the said limits, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof before any justice of the peace, or any other court of competent jurisdiction within the county of St. Louis, be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars, nor more than fifty dollars, according to the nature and aggravation of the offence[.]
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    Mo. Rev Stat 306, § 4 (1845)
    (1844)
    An Act To Restrain Intercourse With Indians, § 4: No person shall sell, exchange or give, to any Indian, any horse, mule, gun, blanket, or any other article or commodity whatever, unless such Indian shall be traveling through the state, and leave a written permit from the proper agent, or under the direction of such agent in proper person.
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    Mo. Rev. Stat. 312, § 2 (1835)
    (1835)
    An Act to Restrain Intercourse with Indians, § 2: If any person shall induce any Indian to come within this state for the purpose of trade, or otherwise than is hereinafter permitted, or shall purchase or receive of any Indian the way of trade or otherwise, a horse or gun, he shall be fined in a sum not exceeding fifty dollars.
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    Mo. Rev. Stat. 414, §§ 2-3 (1835)
    (1835)
    An act concerning free negroes and mulattoes, §§ 2-3: Prohibited any "free negro or mulatto" from possessing or carrying any firelock, or weapon of any kind, or any ammunition without license from a Justice of the Peace.
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    1834 Mo. Laws 536-37
    (1834)
    An Act to Organize Govern and Discipline the Militia, ch. 423,§art.§11, pt. 5.: Every non-commissioned officer and private, appearing without being armed and equipped as the law directs, at any parade or rendezvous, shall be sentenced to pay the following fines, namely: For want of a sufficient sword and belt, if belonging to the artillery or light artillery, and for want of a sufficient musket with a steel rod, or rifle, if belonging to a company of light infantry, grenadiers, riflemen or infantry, one dollar