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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.

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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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    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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    General Ordinances of the City of Aspen, § 125, in Aspen Daily Times, Jul. 27, 1886, at 3-6
    (1886)
    No person shall keep at his place of business or elsewhere within this city, a greater quantity of gun powder or gun cotton than fifty pounds at one time, and the same shall be kept in tin or copper canisters containing not to exceed ten pounds in each.§
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    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.