Missouri
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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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Item type:Item, 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 LouisItem type:Item, 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 MayorItem type:Item, 1873 Mo. Laws 328(1873)An Act to Incorporate The Town Of Moberly, art. III, § 1, pt. 15: Any person who shall threaten, quarrel, challenge or fight within said city, or any person who shall be found intoxicated, who shall carry concealed deadly weapons in said city, or any person who shall be found guilty of a misdemeanor, and to define what acts shall constitute a misdemeanor.Item type:Item, 1873 Mo. Laws 215(1873)An Act To Amend The Charter Of The Town Of Canton . . . , § 10: The Board of Trustees shall have power and authority to . . . regulate the storage of gunpowder, tar pitch, rosin and other combustible materials[.]Item type:Item, The Supreme Court: On Carrying Concealed Weapons, in State Journal, Apr. 12, 1878(1878)Regulated conceal carrying where people may be assembled for educational, literary, or social purposes, or to any election precinct on any election day, or into any court room during the sitting of court, or into any other publica assemblage of persons met for other than militia drill or meetings called under the militia laws of the State, having concealed about his person any kind of fire arms, bowie knife, dirk, dagger, slung shot, or other deadly weapon shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.Item type:Item, 1879 Mo. Laws 90(1879)An Act To Prohibit The Discharge Of Firearms In The Immediate Vicinity Of Any Courthouse, Church Or Building Used For School Or College Purposes, § 1: Hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person in this State, except he be a sheriff or other officer, in the discharge of official duty to discharge or fire off any gun, pistol or fire-arms of any description in the immediate vicinity of any court house, church or building used for school or college purposes.Item type:Item, 1874 Mo. Laws 43(1874)An Act to prevent the carrying of concealed weapons § 1: Prohibited concealed carry of any fire-arms, Bowie-knife, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, or other deadly weapon in any church, place of religious worship, school-room, assembly for educational, literary, or social purpose, election precincts on election day, or court-room while court is in session.Item type:Item, 1875 Mo. Laws 50-51(1875)An Act to prevent the carrying of weapons in public assemblies of the people, and to repeal "An Act to prevent the carrying of concealed weapons," approved March 26, 1874, § 1: Prohibited concealed carry of any fire-arms, Bowie-knife, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, or other deadly weapon in any church, place of religious worship, school-room, assembly for educational, literary, or social purpose, election precincts on election day, or court-room while court is in session, or into any other public assemblage of persons met for purposes other than militia drill or under militia law.Item type:Item, Mo. Rev. Stat 224, ch. 24, art. 2, § 1276 (1879)(1879)Hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person in this state, except he be a sheriff or other officer in the discharge of official duty, to discharge or fire off any gun, pistol or fire arms of any description, in the immediate vicinity of any court house, church or building used for school or college purposes.§Item type:Item, 1877 Mo. Laws 240(1877)An Act to preserve the public peace by preventing the display of knives and other deadly weapons in the presence of one or more persons, § 1: Prohibited the brandishing, in a rude angry, or threatening manner, any firearms, Bowie-knife, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, or other deadly weapon. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, fined not less than ten but no more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not exceeding six months, or both.Item type:Item, Mo. Rev. Stat. 224, ch. 24, art. 2, §§ 1274-1278 (1879)(1879)If any person shall carry concealed, upon or about his person, any deadly or dangerous weapon, or shall go into any church or place where people have assembled for religious worship, or into any school room or place where people are assembled for educational, literary or social purposes, or to any election precinct, on any election day, or into any court room during the sitting of court, or into any other public assemblage of persons met for any lawful purpose, other than for militia drill or meetings called under the militia law of this state, having upon or about his person any kind of firearms, bowie-knife, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, or other deadly weapon, or shall, in the presence of one or more persons, exhibit any such weapon in a rude, angry or threatening manner, or shall have or carry any such weapon upon or about his person when intoxicated or under the influence of intoxicating drinks, or shall, directly or indirectly, sell or deliver, loan or barter to any minor, any such weapon, without the consent of the parent or guardian of such minor, he shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding three months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. (Laws 1874, p. 43; laws 1875, p. 50, and laws 1877, p. 240,.amended.)Item type:Item, Mo. Const. of 1875 art. II, § 17(1875)The right of no citizen to keep and bear arms in defense of his home, person, and property, or in aid of the civil power, when thereto legally summoned, shall be called into question. But nothing herein is intended to justify the practice of wearing concealed weapons.Item type:Item, 1877 Mo. Laws 306(1877)An Act To Provide for the Organization and Government of the Militia of the State of Missouri, Repealing All Other Acts and Parts of Acts Inconsistent with This Act, art. IV, § 3: A soldier who, unnecessarily or without orders from a superior officer, comes to any parade with his firearms loaded with ball, slug or shot, or shall so load the same while on duty, or unnecessarily or without orders from a superior officer, discharge the same, when going to or returning from or upon parade, shall forfeit not less than one nor more than five dollars.