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Colorado

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Colorado. 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, mining, railroad, and ranching records, and oral histories tied to Colorado 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,
    1877 Colo. Sess. Laws 485
    (1877)
    Prohibited killing, ensnaring, or trapping an elk, deer, antelope, mountain sheep, or any game whatsoever on the property of another without the consent of the owner. Also prohibited entering another's property with a gun for the purpose of hunting without the consent of the owner. Violators fined not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars.
  • Item type:Item,
    1877 Colo. Sess. Laws 304
    (1877)
    § 154: Prohibited the carrying with intent to assault another any pistol, gun, knife, dirk, bludgeon, or other offensive weapon.
  • Item type:Item,
    1879 Colo. Sess. Laws 138
    (1879)
    Article VIII, §23: Prohibited any body of men whatsoever, other than the national guard or regularly organized militia, or federal US troops, from associating as a militia or to parade in public with arms. Nor shall any city or town raise or appropriate any money towards arming, equipping, or supporting any such bodies of money.
  • Item type:Item,
    Colo. Const. of 1876 art. II, § 13
    (1876)
    "That the right of no person 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 in question; but nothing herein contained shall be construed to justify the practice of carrying concealed weapons."