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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.
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    Colo. Rev. Stat. ch. 84, art. III, § 1 (1867)
    (1868)
    Authorized the board of trustees of every town to provide regulations for the storage of gunpowder, gun-cotton, nitro-glycerine, tar, pitch, resin, and other combustible or inflammable materials, and to prescribe the places and manner of storing the same.
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    1862 Colo. Sess. Laws 56
    (1862)
    Prohibited the concealed carrying in any city, town, or village any pistol, Bowie knife, dagger, or other deadly weapon. Punished by fine of $5-35.
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    1868 Colo. Sess. Laws 229
    (1867)
    § 149: Prohibited the concealed carrying of any pistol, Bowie knife, dagger, or other deadly weapon within any city, town, or village in the territory. Punishable by fine of $5-35. Exempted sheriffs, constables, and police officers when performing their official duties.
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    Thomas M. Patterson, The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Denver 78 (1875)
    (1875)
    Prohibited the discharge of any cannon, gun, fowling piece, pistol, fire arms, or fire or explode any squib, cracker, or other thing containing powder or other combustible or explosive material. Violators fined not less than one nor more than one hundred dollars.
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    Thomas M. Patterson, The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Denver 135 (1875)
    (1875)
    Prohibited the keeping in a place of business or elsewhere within Denver, any gun powder or gun cotton exceeding twenty-five pounds at one time. The same shall be kept in tin or copper canisters or cases not exceeding five pounds. Violators fined not less than ten nor exceeding one hundred dollars.
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    Ordinance no. 4, For the Security of Persons and Property, § 1, in Ordinances of the Town of Greeley (1879)
    (1879)
    §That no person shall fire or discharge any cannon, rifle, gun, pistol or fire arms of any description, or fire, explode or set off any squib, cracker, or anything containing powder, or other combustible or explosive material, in any street, alley or public ground in this town, within one-half mile of the centre of Lincoln Park, without permission of the Board of Trustees, or the written permission of the Mayor of said town, which permission shall limit the time of such firing, and be subject to be revoked at any time after it has been granted...
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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."