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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,
    1931 Colo. Sess. Laws 399
    (1931)
    Ch. 97, § 2: Prohibited the discharge of any gun, rifle, pistol, shot gun, or other firearm from any aircraft, airplane, airship while the same is in motion, with the intent or purpose to take, capture, kill, or attempt to kill any migratory bird.
  • Item type:Item,
    1919 Colo. Sess. Laws 416-19
    (1919)
    Foreign-Born Unnaturalized Citizens, § 1: Prohibited noncitizens from owning or possessing any shotgun, rifle, pistol or firearm of any kind; violators subject to fine, imprisonment, confiscation of weapon.
  • Item type:Item,
    Colo. Rev. Stat. ch. 35, art. 4, § 1676 (1907)
    (1907)
    Prohibited the use of nitroglycerine, dynamite, gunpowder, or any other explosive while breaking and entering any building. Violators shall be imprisoned not less than twenty-five nor more than forty years.
  • Item type:Item,
    1911 Colo. Sess. Laws 408-09
    (1911)
    Required the record registration of every retail sale, rental, exchange of firearms, pistols, or revolvers. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than twenty-five, nor more than one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both.
  • Item type:Item,
    1907 Colo. Sess. Laws 419
    (1907)
    Game-Fish, § 10: Prohibited pursuing, taking, wounding, or unlawfully killing any game in the night, or with steel or hard-pointed bullet, nor with any weapon other than a shoulder-fired gun or pistol.
  • Item type:Item,
    1913 Colo. Sess. Laws 156
    (1913)
    Ch. 53, §1: Granted the city council or the board of trustees in towns the power to regulate or prevent the storage or transportation of gunpowder, tar, pitch, or any other combustible or explosive materials within the corporate limits.
  • Item type:Item,
    1881 Colo. Sess. Laws 856
    (1881)
    § 1964: Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, Bowie-knife, dagger, or other deadly weapon. Violators punished by jail term no less than ten but not more than thirty days and fined not less than fifty but no more than one hundred dollars.
  • Item type:Item,
    1891 Colo. Sess. Laws 129-30
    (1891)
    Prohibited carrying concealed any pistol, revolver, derringer, bowie-knife, razor, dagger, sling-shot, or other deadly weapon in any city, town, or village. Violators punished by imprisonment of thirty days, or by fine not more than fifty dollars with costs, or both.
  • Item type:Item,
    1881 Colo. Sess. Laws 229
    (1881)
    § 149: Prohibited the concealed carrying of any firearms, any pistol, Bowie knife, dagger, or other deadly weapon.