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Utah

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Utah. 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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    The Revised Ordinances of Salt Lake City 283 (Joseph Lippman ed., 1893)
    (1888)
    Ch. 26, § 14: Prohibited carrying a slingshot or any concealed deadly weapon without permission of the mayor. Punishable by fine up to $50.
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    Revised Ordinances and Resolutions of the City Council of Salt Lake City 161–62 (1875)
    (1875)
    Ch. 48, § 1: Be it ordained, by the City Council of Salt Lake City, that it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to keep, sell or give away, gunpowder, gun-cotton, or nitro-glycerine, in any quantity without permission of the City Council; Provided, any person may keep, for his own use, not exceeding five pounds of gun powder, one pound of gun cotton, or one ounce of nitro-glycerine.
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    The Revised Ordinances Of Provo City 105–07 (1877)
    (1877)
    Prohibited carrying a pistol, or other firearm, slungshot, false knuckles, Bowie knife, dagger or any other "dangerous or deadly weapon." Punishable by fine up to $25.
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    The Revised Ordinances of Salt Lake City 284, § 18 (Joseph Lippman ed., 1893)
    (1889)
    Ch. 26, § 18: Any person discharging an air gun, sparrow gun, flipper, or other similar contrivance, within the limits of this city, shall be liable to a fine of not more than twenty-five dollars for every such offense.
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    The Revised Ordinances of Salt Lake City 284, § 17 (Joseph Lippman ed., 1893)
    (1860)
    Ch. 26, § 17: Any person discharging firearms within the limits of the city, without a lawful breastwork or battery for the protection of the citizens, shall be liable to a fine of not more than twenty-five dollars for every such offense. A breastwork or battery, for target shooting, to be deemed lawful, shall be a wall eighteen inches thick, six feet wide, and six feet high in the back, with side wings one foot thick, each extending two feet, increasing flaringly to the front, and six feet high, of adobes or mud, or its equivalent of other material.
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    Ordinances of Ogden City, Utah 98 (1881)
    (1881)
    Any person discharging any gun or pistol within the limits of the city, between the hours of sunset and sunrise, or on the Sabbath day (except in case of necessary defense of self, family or property, or in the case of any civil officer in the discharge of his duty), shall be liable to a fine in any sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars for every such offense.
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    1866 Utah Terr. Acts 51, § 14
    (1865)
    If such offender, at the time of such robbery, is armed with a dangerous weapon, with intent, if resisted, to kill or maim the person robbed; or if, being so armed, he wound or strike the person robbed; or if lie have :any confederates aiding and abetting him in such robbery present, and so armed; he shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of not exceeding twenty-five years, and not less than ten years."
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    1866 Utah Terr. Acts 59
    (1865)
    Prohibited the "set[ting] of any gun." Punishable by imprisonment of up to 1 year or a fine of up to $500.
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    1866 Utah Terr. Acts 51, § 8
    (1865)
    Whoever fights a duel with deadly weapons, and inflicts a mortal wound on his antagonist, wherefrom death ensues, is guilty of murder of the first degree, and shall be punished accordingly."
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    1866 Utah Terr. Acts 54
    (1865)
    If such offender, at the time of committing such burglary, is armed with a dangerous weapon, or so arm himself after having entered such dwelling house, or actually assault any person being lawfully therein; or have any confederates present aiding and abetting in such burglary, he shall be punished by imprisonment for life, or any term of years."
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    1888 Utah Terr. Laws 166
    (1888)
    To adopt such rules and regulations within their respective counties, except within municipal corporations, with regard to the keeping and storing of every kind of gun powder, [H]ercules powder, giant powder, or other combustible material, as the safety and protection of the lives and property of individuals may require.
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    1866 Utah Terr. Acts 63
    (1850)
    That if any person shall hereafter trade or give any guns, rifies,pistols or any other deadly weapons, ammunition or spirituous liquors to any Indian, without having a license, he shall, on conviction thereof before any Justice of the Peace, he fined in a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars for each offense, and also forfeit all the property received from the Indian, which shall be sold and the proceeds thereof paid into the public treasury."
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    1863–64 Utah Terr. Acts 47
    (1864)
    To direct or prohibit the location and management of houses for the storing of gunpowder, tar, pitch, resin or other combustible and dangerous materials within the city, and to regulate the conveying of gunpowder.
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    1888 Utah Comp. Laws 797
    (1884)
    Any one selling or giving a toy pistol to any person in this Territory, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.