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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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    Edward O. Wolcott, The Ordinances of Georgetown, Passed June 7th, A.D. 1877, at 100, § 9 (1877)
    (1877)
    Prohibited the concealed carrying of any pistol, Bowie knife, dagger, or other deadly weapon. Punishable by a fine of $5-50.
  • Item type:Item,
    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.
  • Item type:Item,
    General Ordinances of the City of Aspen, § 182, in Aspen Daily Times, Jul. 27, 1886, at 3-6
    (1886)
    If any person shall, within the corporate limits of the city of Aspen, have, concealed upon his person any pistol, bowie-knife, dagger, slung-shot, billy, dirk-knife, brass or metal knuckles, or other deadly weapon, he or she shall, on conviction, be fined in any sum not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars, in the discretion of the court, or be imprisoned in the city jail at hard labor not less than five nor more than ten days, in the discretion of the court, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court, for every such offense.
  • Item type:Item,
    Isham White, The Laws and Ordinances of the City of Denver, Colorado 369 (1886)
    (1886)
    Prohibited the carrying of any slungshot, colt, or metal knuckles while engaged in any breach of the peace. Punishable by a fine of $25-300. Also made it illegal to carry concealed weapons within Denver’s city limits, including pistols, revolvers, knives, daggers, razors, brass knuckles, and other dangerous or deadly weapons. A conviction could result in a $10–$200 fine for each offense. Exception for officers: U.S. marshals and deputies, sheriffs and deputies, and Denver police officers could carry such weapons when they considered them necessary to perform their official duties.
  • 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.