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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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1909 Idaho Sess. Laws 55
(1909)
An Act to Define the Crime of Burglary with Explosives and Providing the Punishment Therefor, and Declaring an Emergency, § 1: Enhanced the sentence of any person who, with intent to commit crime, breaks and enters into any building, and attempts to open any vault, safe, or other secure place within said building by using nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gunpowder, or any other explosive, shall be deemed guilty of burglary with explosives. Violators imprisoned for a period of not less than ten, nor more than twenty-five years.
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.
Charter and Revised Ordinances of Boise City, Idaho 118-19 (1894)
(1877)
§ 36: Prohibited the concealed carry of any Bowie-knife, dirk-knife, pistol, sword in cane, slung-shot, metallic knuckles, or other dangerous or deadly weapons. Violators fined not exceeding twenty-five dollars for each offense, or imprisoned not more than twenty days, or both fine and imprisonment.
Charter and Revised Ordinances of Boise City, Idaho 117 (1894)
(1877)
§ 31: Prohibited keeping or storing in any building, store, or warehouse, within Boise City in any quantity larger than fifty pound. Also prohibited keeping any giant powder, nitro-glycerine, gun cotton, Herculese powder, dynamite, or other material or substance of equal explosive force by whatever known name. Violators fined not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less than ten nor more than twenty days, or both with costs of prosecution.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ordinance No. 11, §§ 1, 9, in Twin Falls Weekly News, Jun. 23, 1905, at 3 (Twin Falls, Idaho)
(1905)
Prohibited the discharge of an air gun, flipper, or other similar contrivance within the limits of the village of Twin Falls. Violators fined not exceeding one hundred dollars.
Charter and Revised Ordinances of Boise City, Idaho 111 (1894)
(1894)
§ 9: Prohibited the carry, use for amusement, or have in possession any air gun or spring gun. Violators fined not exceeding ten dollars, or be imprisoned in the city jail not more than five days, or both fine and imprisonment.
Ordinance No. 160, An Ordinance Defining Offenses Against the Peace and Good Order of the City of Caldwell, and Providing Punishment Therefore, in The Caldwell Tribune, May 27, 1910, at 2 (Caldwell, Idaho)
(1910)
§ 19: Prohibited discharging any firearms within city limits without sufficient breastworks or batter for the protection of the citizens. Violators fined not exceeding one hundred dollars.
1901 Idaho Sess. Laws 120, § 37
(1901)
Amended the Boise city charter to authorize the regulation of storage and sale of gunpowder, dynamite, giant powder, nitro-glycerine, oil, and other combustible material. Also allowed the city to prevent the manufacture in the city, and to "prevent by all possible and proper means" the danger or risks of injury or damage by fire from carelessness, negligence, or otherwise.
1917 Idaho Sess. Laws 461
(1917)
An Act . . . To Regulate the Use and Carrying of Concealed Deadly Weapons: Prohibited the concealed carry of any dirk, dirk-knife, Bowie-knife, dagger, slingshot, pistol, revolver, gun, or any other deadly or dangerous weapon
1927 Idaho Sess. Laws 510, 541
(1927)
Act of Mar. 15, 1927, ch. 261, § 79: Prohibited any body of men to organize as a militia or parade in public with firearms in any city or town unless recognized by the laws of Idaho and United States. Prohibited any city or town from arming, equipping, uniforming, supporting, sustaining, providing armories, or providing space to drill to any such body of men.
1897 Idaho Sess. Laws 89
(1897)
§ 2, pt. 18: Amended the Boise city charter to authorize the storage and sale of gun powder and other combustible materials, as well as "all possible and proper means" to prevent the danger or risk of injury or damage by fire from carelessness, negligence, or otherwise.
1909 Idaho Sess. Laws 6
(1909)
An Act To Regulate the Use and Carrying of Concealed Deadly Weapons and to Regulate the Sale or Delivery of Deadly Weapons to Minors Under the Age of Sixteen Years to Provide a Penalty for the Violation of the Provisions of this Act, and to Exempt Certain Persons, § 1: Prohibited the carrying a concealed dirk, Bowie knife, dagger, slungshot, pistol, revolver, gun, or any other deadly or dangerous weapon in any public setting.

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