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Louisiana

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Louisiana. It supports research on the state’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from French and Spanish colonial periods through statehood to the present.

  • Legal sources: statutes and session laws, administrative code, attorney general opinions, appellate decisions, and select parish/municipal ordinances.
  • Historical materials: newspapers, photographs, maps, catalogs, maritime and port records, militia and Civil War archives, and oral histories tied to Louisiana people and places.
  • Research outputs: technical reports, academic studies, training manuals, and curated datasets relevant to the state.

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    Ordinance no. 103, §§ 1-3, in St. Tammany Farmer, September 11, 1909, at 7, 7 (Slidell, Louisiana).
    (1909)
    That it shall be unlawful for any person at any time to explode, shoot any firecracker, firearms, Roman candle, or any other fireworks that may be used for the purpose of celebrating, within the corporate limits of the Town of Slidell.
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    1920 La. Acts 170
    (1920)
    An Act Defining the Crime of Burglary with Explosives and Providing the Punishment Therefor,§ 1-2: any persons who, with intent to commit crime, breaks and enters, either by day or night, any building whether inhabited or not, and opens or attempts to open any vault, safe or other secure place by use of nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gunpowder or any other explosive, shall be deemed guilty of burglary with explosives.
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    1902 La. Acts 150, in 2 Solomon Wolff, Constitution and Revised Laws of Louisiana 1718 (1904)
    (1903)
    Imposed a license tax of ten dollars on all wholesale dealers of pistols and rifles, and a five dollar license tax on wholesale dealers of pistol and rifle cartridges. Imposed a one hundred dollar license tax on retail dealers of pistols and rifles and a fifty dollar tax on retail dealers of pistol and rifle cartridges. Also provided that any person who shall sell pistols, rifles, pistol cartridges, or rifle cartridges without paying the license tax is guilty of a misdemeanor
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    1912 La. Acts 505
    (1912)
    Twenty-fifth: To regulate the buying, caring, storing, selling and using of gun powder and fire crackers, and fireworks manufactured or prepared therefrom, and all other combustible or explosive substances, the exhibition of fireworks, the discharge of firearms and the lights, in barns, stables and other buildings, and restrain the making of bonfires at any place within the limits of the city.
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    John Q. Flynn Flynn's Digest of the City Ordinances, Together with the Constitutional Provisions, Acts of the General Assembly, and Decisions of the Courts Relative to the Government of the City of New Orleans 545 (1896)
    (1893)
    1342: It shall be unlawful for any one to sell, or lease, or give through himself or any other person, any pistol, dirk, bowie knife, toy pistol for which cartridges are used, or any other dangerous weapon which may be carried concealed, to any person under the age of eighteen years.
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    Albert Voorhies, Revised Laws of Louisiana 161 (1884)
    (1884)
    949: When gunpowder is shipped on board of a steamboat it shall be stored away at as great a distance as possible from the furnace, and a written notification of the fact shall be placed in three conspicuous parts of the boat; and in the event of such notification not being so exhibited, then for any loss of property or life for which the powder may be deemed the cause, the owner and captain shall be liable to the penalty provided in the proceeding section.§ 950. Any person who shall ship or put on board, or cause to be shipped or put on board of any steamboat within this State, any gunpowder, without giving notice thereof, at the time of making the shipment, to the master or clerk of said boat, shall be liable to a penalty of two hundred dollars
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    1908 La. Acts 405-06
    (1908)
    An Act to Protect Game Birds. . . ,§ 7: That it shall be unlawful to kill any of the birds named in this Act in the open season, noted herein by any means other than by ordinary gun capable of being held to and shot from the shoulder.
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    1918 La. Acts 132
    (1918)
    3: That it shall be unlawful for any person to hunt, or kill wild deer with any gun, or other firearm with any devise for deadening the sound of the explosion attached or fitted thereto, which device is commonly called a silencer.
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    1932 La. Acts 337-38
    (1932)
    No. 79,§ 1-2: Prohibited selling, loaning, giving, purchasing, possession, carrying, or transporting a machine gun.
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    1890 La. Acts 39
    (1890)
    Ch. 46: Prohibiting the transfer of any pistol, dirk, Bowie knife, or "any other dangerous weapon, which may be carried concealed on a person to any person under the age of 21.