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Indiana

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Indiana. 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, frontier and militia records, manufacturing and transportation archives (e.g., steel and automotive), and oral histories tied to Indiana people and places.
  • Research outputs: technical reports, academic studies, training manuals, and curated datasets relevant to the state.

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    1929 Ind. Acts 139, ch. 55, § 1
    (1929)
    Ch. 55, § 1: Prohibited being armed with a pistol, revolver, rifle shotgun, machine gun, or any other firearm or dangerous weapon while committing or attempting to commit a crime of rape, robbery, bank robbery, or larceny. Punishable by imprisonment for 10-20 years, in addition to the punishment for the original crime.
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    1927 Ind. Acts 53-54
    (1927)
    Crimes-Burglary with Explosives, Electricity or Gas-Punishment, ch. 19, § 1: Prohibited breaking into and entering, with intent to commit a felony, and attempts to open or attempt to open any vault, safe, or other secure place by the use of nitroglycerin, dynamite, gunpowder, or any other explosive, or by the use of electricity to burn or melt, or use oxycetyline gas, or any other gas to open such containers, shall be deemed guilty of burglary with explosives, electricity, or gas. Violators shall be imprisoned not less than ten years.
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    1927 Ind. Acts 469, § 1-2
    (1927)
    Public Offenses - Ownership, Possession or Control of Machine Guns or Bombs - Penalty, ch. 156, § 1: Prohibited owning or possessing a machine gun or bomb in an automobile. Punishable by imprisonment for 1-5 years.
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    1925 Ind. Acts 495-501
    (1925)
    Prohibited the sale, delivery, or otherwise transfer of a pistol or revolver to a person who he or she has reasonable cause believe is either not a citizen or is a felon. Violatos fined not less than one hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
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    1905 Ind. Acts 677
    (1905)
    Ch. 169, § 410: Prohibited maliciously or mischievously shooting a gun, rifle, pistol or other weapon, or throwing a stone, stick, club or any other substance at a vehicle. Punishable by imprisonment for 30 days to 1 year and a fine of $10-100.
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    1905 Ind. Acts 688
    (1905)
    Toy Pistols, § 451: Prohibited the manufacture, sale, exposing for sale, or giving away as a prize, or reward, any toy pistol or other device for the purpose of exploding caps or wafers containing fulminates or other explosive compounds. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, fined not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars, or imprisoned in county jail not less than ten days nor more than twenty days.
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    1923 Ind. Acts 108
    (1923)
    Intoxicating Liquor-Transportation Penalty, ch. 34, § 1: Prohibited transporting liquor in wagon, buggy, automobile, or water or aircraft when such vehicle has any firearms or guns within. Violators guilty of a felony, fined not more than one thousand dollars and imprisoned not less than one year nor more than two years.
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    1905 Ind. Stat. Ann. 231, § 2094
    (1905)
    Ch. 5, art. 4, § 2094: Prohibited the concealed carry of any dirk, pistol, Bowie-knife, dagger, sword-cane, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon. Also prohibited the open carry of the same with intent to injure another. Violators punished by destruction of the weapon. Repeat offenders sentence to not more than one year in prison upon third offense.
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    1905 Ind. Acts 688
    (1905)
    Weapon- Furnishing to Minor, § 450: Prohibited selling, bartering, exchanging, disposing of, or furnishing any dirk, Bowie-knife, slung-shot, metal knuckles, pistol cartridges, or other deadly weapon which can be carried concealed, to anyone under the age of twenty-one. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, fined not less than five nor more than fifty dollars.
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    1901 Ind. Acts 206
    (1901)
    Public Comfort and Health, § 4077: Allowed the cities with populations of more than thirty thousand and less than thirty six and a half thousand in population to regulate the storage of gun powder, tar, pitch, resin, coal oil, benzene, turpentine, hemp, cotton, nitroglycerine, dynamite, giant powder, petroleum, gasoline, or gas, or other explosive or combustible material which may seem dangerous