Utah
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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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Item type:Item, Utah Const. art. I, § 6 (1896)(1896)Declared a right of the people to keep and bear arms for their security and defense, but the legislature may regulate the exercise of the right.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 1894 Utah Terr. Laws 64, 76–77(1894)It shall not be lawful for any body of men whatever, other than the regular organized vol§unteer militia of this Territory, and the troops of the United States, to associate themselves together as a military company or organization, or to drill or parade with arms in any city or town of this TerritoryItem type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 1905 Utah Laws 60(1905)§ 1. Selling or giving firearms to minors under fourteen. Any person who sells, gives or disposes of, or offers to sell, give or dispose of any pistol, gun, target gun, or other firearm, to any person under the age of fourteen years, is guilty of a misdemeanor. § 2. Minor under fourteen must not carry firearms. Any person under the ager of fourteen years who shall carry, or have in his possession, any pistol, gun, target gun or other firearm, unless accompanied by a parent or guardian, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.Item type:Item, 1917 Utah Laws 278(1917)Prohibited noncitizens from owning, possessing, or having under their control and shot gun, rifle or firearm " of any make. "Item type:Item, 1901 Utah Laws 76(1901)That every person who knowingly leave with or delivers to another, or to any express or railway company or other common carrier, or to any warehouse or storehouse any package containing nitro-glycerine, dynamite, guncotton, gunpowder, or other highly explosive compound, or any benzine [sic], gasoline, phosphorus, or other highly inflammable substance or any vitriol, . . . or other dangerous acid . . . to be handled, stored, shipped or transported, without plainly marking and indicating on such package the name and nature of the contents thereof, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and punishable by a fine not exceeding three hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months.Item type:Item, 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."Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 1901 Utah Laws 139(1901)To regulate or prevent the storage of gunpowder, tar, pitch, resin, coal oil, benzene, turpentine, nitroglycerine, petroleum, or any of the products thereof, and other combustible or explosive material, and the use of lights in stables, shops and other places, and the building of bonfires.Item type:Item, 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."Item type:Item, 1907 Utah Laws 50–51(1907)Every person who, in the night time, forcibly breaks and enters, or without force enters an open door, window or other aperture of any house, room, apartment . . . with intent to commit larceny or any felony by the use of nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gunpowder, or any other explosive, is guilty of burglary in the first degree.Item type:Item, 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."Item type:Item, 1903 Utah Laws 155(1903)It shall be unlawful and a misdemeanor for any person to use any gun larger than ten gauge while hunting for fowl or birds."Item type:Item, 1901 Utah Laws 97–98(1901)Prohibited the construction and possession of any "infernal machine," defined as a device with a loaded firearm that is capable of igniting when moved, handled, or opened.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 1899 Utah Laws 42-43(1898)It shall be unlawful for any person to use any gun larger than ten-gauge while hunting for fowl or birds.Item type:Item, 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."Item type:Item, 1905 Utah Laws 197(1905)Imposed licensing requirement for non-residents and unnaturalized foreign-born resident to kill any game, animals, birds, or fish in the State.Item type:Item, 1919 Utah Laws 1632(1905)§ 8494: "Any person who sells, gives, or disposes of, or offers to sell, give or dispose of any pistol, gun, target gun, or other firearm to any person under the age of fourteen years is guilty of a misdemeanor."Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.