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.
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Item type:Item, St. Louis, Mo., Rev. Ordinances ch. 16, art. 2, §§ 688-689 (1887)(1887)Not exceeding five pounds of gunpowder shall be allowed to be kept by any person or persons in any store, dwelling, building, or other place within the city, except that retailers or venders of gunpowder in small quantities may for that purpose keep any quantity not exceeding thirty pounds; provided, that the same shall also be kept in tin or metal canisters or stone jars, with good and closely fitted and well secured covers thereon; provided, also, that those parties now having magazines within the limits of the city are hereby allowed to store in such magazines such quantities of gunpowder as may be necessary for their business; provided, further, that giant powder, dynamite and nitro-glycerine shall not be stored in any place within the limits of the city, except in magazines as now located. § 689. Every retailer of gunpowder, giant powder, dynamite, nitro-glycerine or blasting powder, shall place on the building containing the same, over, or at the side of the front door thereof, a sign with the words "Powder for sale," printed thereon, in letters at least three inches in height, and shall notify the commissioner of public buildings in which portion of said store the said powder or powders are placed, which notice shall be kept of record in the said commissioner's office.Item type:Item, St. Louis, Mo., Rev. Ordinances no. 17188, art. 4, § 1054 (1895)(1887)§No person shall sell to any child under the age of sixteen years, without the written consent of the parents or guardian of such child, any cartridge of fixed ammunition of which any fulminate is a component part, or any gun, pistol or other mechanical contrivance arranged for the explosion of such cartridge, or of any fulminate.Item type:Item, St. Louis, Mo., Rev. Ordinances ch. 29, art. 11, § 3 (1881)(1881)Prohibited carry of any sling, cross bow and arrow, air gun, or other contrivance for ejecting, discharging or throwing any fragment, bolt, arrow, pellet, or other missile of stone, metal, wood, or other substance capable of inflicting injury or annoyance in any street, alley, walk, or park of the city of Saint Louis.Item type:Item, David H. MacAdam, Tower Grove Park of the City of Saint Louis, Rules and Regulations 117 (1883)(1883)§ 4: All persons are forbidden . . . 4. To carry firearms or to throw stones or other missiles within it.§Item type:Item, Henry Smith Kelley, Laws Applicable to and Governing the City of Saint Joseph, Missouri 192 (1888)(1888)§ 3: No person shall carry on or take part in carrying on, any pistol gallery or shooting gallery, without a license therefor from said city; and the charge for such license shall be five dollars per month.Item type:Item, Columbia, Mo. Gen. Ordinances § 120 (1883)(1883)Ordinances § 120: Any person who shall willfully fire any gun or pistol, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and fined not less than five dollars for each or either offence.Item type:Item, J.H. Johnston, Revised Charter and Ordinances of the City of Boonville, Missouri 44 (1881)(1881)Art. 11, § 13: regulate the storage of gun powder and other combustible materials; and generally provide for the prevention of fires within the city.Item type:Item, An Ordinance in Revision of the Ordinances of the City of DeSoto 52 (1888)(1888)§ 217: Whenever there shall be found upon the person of anyone who has been found guilty of a breach of the peace, or of conduct calculated to provoke a breach of the peace, any slung shot, pistol, or knuckles of lead, brass, or other metal, or when upon trial, evidence shall be adduced proving that such weapons were in the possession, or on the person of anyone, while in the act or commission of the act aforesaid, such person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.Item type:Item, J.H. Johnston, Revised Charter and Ordinances of the City of Boonville, Missouri 91 (1881)(1881)No. 17, art. 1, § 6: Prohibited concealed carry of any pistol, revolver, dirk, dagger, slungshot, metallic knuckles, or other deadly or dangerous weapon or exhibit in a rude, angry, or threatening manner, or carry any such weapon while intoxicated. . Violators fined not less than five but no more than ninety dollars.Item type:Item, Columbia, Mo. Gen. Ordinances § 128 (1883)(1883)§ 128: Any person who shall be guilty of carrying concealed about his person any pistol, dirk, bowie knife, or other weapon, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not less than five dollars for every such offence.Item type:Item, An Ordinance in Revision of the Ordinances Governing the City of Kansas 264-65 (1880)(1880)Ch. 34, § 3: No person shall, in this city, wear under his clothes or concealed about his person, any pistol or revolver, except by special permission from the Mayor; nor shall any person wear under his clothes, or concealed about his person, any slung-shot, cross knuckles, knuckles of lead, brass or other metal, or any bowie knife, razor, billy, dirk, dirk-knife or dagger, or any knife resembling a bowie knife, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon. Any person, violating any provision or requirement of this section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof before the City Recorder, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollarsItem type:Item, Mo. Rev. Stat. 854, ch. 47, § 3502 (1889)(1889)Prohibited the concealed carry of any deadly or dangerous weapon or any kind of fire-arms, Bowie-knife, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, or other deadly weapon 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 election day, into any court-room during the sitting of court, or into any other public assemblage. Also prohibited the brandishing of any above weapons, or carrying above weapon while intoxicated. Also prohibited the transfer of the above weapons to any minor. Violators fined not less than fifty but no more than two hundred dollars, or imprisonment not less than five days but no more than six month.Item type:Item, 1883 Mo. Laws 76(1883)Prohibited carrying concealed deadly or dangerous weapons into any church, place of worship, school, educational institution, place of literary purposes, place of social purposes, election precinct, court, or other public assemblage other than militia purposes.Item type:Item, 1885 Mo. Laws 140(1885)An Act to amend an act entitled "an act to amend section 1274, article 2, chapter 24 of the revised statutes of Missouri, entitled 'of crimes and criminal procedure,'" § 1: Prohibited the concealed carry of any deadly or dangerous weapon 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 for militia lawful purposes. Prohibited weapons include any firearm, Bowie-knife, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, or other deadly weapon.Item type:Item, 1883 Mo. Laws 76(1883)An Act to Amend Section 1274, Article 2, Chapter 24 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, Entitled "Of Crimes And Criminal Procedure" § 1274: Prohibited the carrying of a concealed fire arms, Bowie knife, dirk, dagger, slungshot, or other deadly weapon to a church, school, election site, or other public setting or carrying in a threatening manner or while intoxicated. Punishable by fine of $25-200 and/or by imprisonment up to 6 months.