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Idaho

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Idaho. 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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    Idaho Const. art. I, § 11 (1889)
    (1889)
    Declared a right to keep and bear arms, but the legislature shall regulate the exercise of the right by law.
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    Richard Z. Johnson, The Revised Statutes of Idaho Territory 729 (1887)
    (1887)
    § 6706: Enhanced the sentence of any person who assaults, beats another with a cowhide, stick, or whip and, having in his possession, a pistol or other deadly weapon with intent to intimidate or prevent the person assaulted from defending himself. Offenders punished by imprisonment in territorial prison not less than one nor more than four years.
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    1888 Idaho Sess. Laws 23
    (1888)
    An Act Regulating the Use and Carrying of Deadly Weapons in Idaho Territory, § 1: Prohibited the carry, exhibition, or flourish of any dirk, dirk-knife, sword, sword-cane, pistol, gun, or other deadly weapons. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by fine not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in jail for not less than twenty nor more than fifty days, or both fine and imprisonment.
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    1874 Idaho Sess. Laws 326
    (1874)
    Offenses Against the Persons or Individuals, § 36: Prohibited dueling, challenging another to duel, or shall deliver the verbal or written message to duel. Violators shall be imprisoned not less than two nor more than ten years, and are prohibited from voting or holding public office of "trust or profit" in the Idaho territory.
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    1870 Idaho Sess. Laws 21
    (1870)
    An Act to Amend an Act Concerning Crimes and Punishment . . ., § 40: Prohibited brandishing any dirk, dirk knife, sword, sword cane, pistol, gun, or other deadly weapon in a rude, angry, and threatening manner.
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    Crimes and Punishments, in Compiled and Revised Laws of the Territory of Idaho 326 (1875)
    (1875)
    Prohibited dueling with a rifle, shot-gun, pistol, bowie knife, dirk, small sword, back sword, or any other dangerous weapon. If any person shall kill or inflict a wound that the other party shall die of within one year, every offender shall be deemed guilty of first degree murder.
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    Compiled and Revised Laws of the Territory of Idaho, 354 (1875), § 133
    (1875)
    Prohibited the carrying of "any pistol, gun, knife, dirk, bludgeon, or other offensive weapon, with intent to assault any person." Punishable by imprisonment for up to 3 months or a fine up to $100.
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    1889 Idaho Sess. Laws 23
    (1889)
    § 1: Prohibited the carry or brandishing of any dirk, dirk-knife, sword, sword-cane, pistol, gun, or other deadly weapons within limits of any city, town, or village, or in any public assembly. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than fifty but no more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not less than twenty but no more than fifty days, or both fine and imprisonment.
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    1863 Idaho Sess. Laws 442
    (1863)
    Ch. 3, § 39: Prohibited fighting a duel with a rifle, shotgun, pistol, Bowie-knife, dirk, small sword, back sword, or any other dangerous weapon. Should the opponent die of a wound within one year of the duel, the offender is deemed guilty of murder in the first degree. Other persons dueling with or without deadly weapons punished by prison term not less than two but no more than five years.
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    1864 Idaho Sess. Laws 441-42
    (1864)
    An Act Concerning Crimes and Punishments, § 39: Prohibited dueling. Violators imprisoned not less than two nor more than five years in territorial prison. If any person shall have agreed to duel and caused death to any person from an injury resulting from the duel, they shall be found guilty of murder within one year and one day and punished accordingly.
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    1868 Idaho Sess. Laws 95
    (1868)
    An Act Amendatory of an Act Entitled "An Act Concerning Crimes and Punishments," ch. 10, § 1: Prohibited the discharge of any gun, pistol, or any other species of firearms to willfully or maliciously disturb the peace or quiet of any neighborhood. Violators fined not exceeding two hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the County jail not exceeding two months.