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Minnesota

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Minnesota. 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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1859 Minn. Pub. Stat. 798-800
(1858)
Ch. 120, §§ 1, 8: That all able-bodied, white male citizens resident of this state, being eighteen years of age, and under the age of forty-five years, excepting persons exempt by law, shall be enrolled in the militia, and perform military duty in such manner-not incompatible with the constitution and laws of the United States-as hereinafter prescribed
1897 Minn. Gen. Laws 229
(1897)
Ch. 118, pt. 3, art. 5, § 107: It shall not be lawful for any body of men whatever, other than the regularly organized national guard of this state, and the troops of the United States, to associate themselves together as a military company or organization, to drill or parade with arms in any city or town of this state, except the regular organization known as the Sons of Veterans
1903 Minn. Gen. Laws 588-89
(1903)
Ch. 336, § 12: No person shall at any time set, lay, prepare or have in possession any trap, snare, artificial light, net, bird lime, swivel gun or set gun or any contrivance whatever for the purpose of catching, taking or killing any of the birds in this act mentioned, except that decoys and stationary blinds may be used in hunting wild geese, brant and ducks
1913 Minn. Gen. Laws 55
(1913)
An Act to Prevent the Sale, Offering or Exposing for Sale or Having in Possession for the Use or for Purpose of Sale within this State, of Silencer for Shot-gun, Revolver, Rifle or Other Firearm, Defining a Silencer and Providing Penalties for Violation, ch. 64, §§ 1-4: Use of silencers prohibited. No person shall within the state of Minnesota sell or offer or expose for sale, or have in possession for use upon or in connection with any rifle, shot-gun, revolver, or other firearm or have in possession for purposes of sale any silencer for a shotgun, revolver, rifle or other fire-arm
1905 Minn. Gen. Laws 162-63
(1905)
An Act Amending General Statutes of 1894, § 6445, Relating to Manslaughter, ch. 125, § 1: By shooting another with a gun, or other firearm when resulting from carelessness in mistaking the person shot for a deer or other animal is manslaughter in the first degree
1917 Minn. Laws 354
(1917)
Ch. 244, § 1: Every person who shall manufacture, or cause to be manufactured, sell, keep for sale, offer, or dispose of, any instrument or weapon of the kind usually known as a slung-shot, sand-club, or metal knuckles; or who shall attempt to use against another, or with intent so to use, shall carry, conceal, or possess, any of the weapons hereinbefore specified, or any dagger, dirk, knife, pistol, or other dangerous weapon, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor. The possession by any person, other than a public officer, of any such weapon concealed or furtively carried on the person shall be presumptive evidence of carrying, concealing, or possessing with intent to use the same.
1905 Minn. Gen. Laws 620
(1905)
Ch. 344, § 53: No person shall have in his possession within any such park or within one-half mile of the outer limits thereof, any gun, revolver, or other firearm unless the same is unloaded, and except after the same has been sealed by the park commissioner or a deputy appointed by him, and except such gun or other firearm at all times during which it may be lawfully had in such park remains so sealed and unloaded.§
1917 Minn. Laws 839-40
(1917)
An Act . . . Making It Unlawful for Any Such Foreign Born Resident to Either Own or Be Possessed of a Shot-gun or Rifle or Other Firearms of Any Make, ch. 500, § 1: Prohibited noncitizens from possessing firearms " of any make. "
1907 Minn. Gen. Laws 408-09
(1907)
An Act to Prohibit the Shooting of Firearms Within Three Miles of the Corporate Limits of Cities Having a Population of 50,000 or More, ch. 300, § 1: unlawful for any person to hunt with or carry loaded any rifle or other firearm for the purpose of hunting within three miles of the corporate limits of any city having a population of 50,000 or more, except target practice on regular rifle ranges, and members of duly organized gun clubs shooting or practicing on lands owned or leased by the club, or trap shooter shooting or practicing on grounds selected for that purpose, or firing a salute over the graves of soldiers.§
1891 Minn. Gen. Stat. 517, §§ 6290-91
(1891)
§§ 6290-91: Prohibited carrying with intent to use against another any slung-shot, sand-club, metal knuckles, dagger, dirk, knife, pistol, or other firearm, or any dangerous. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor.
1889 Minn. Gen. Stat. 1006
(1888)
Making, Selling, etc., Dangerous Weapons, §§ 333-34: Prohibited manufacturing, selling, giving, or disposing of a slungshot, sandclub, or metal knuckles, or selling or giving a pistol or firearm to a minor without magistrate consent. Also prohibited carrying a concealed slungshot, sandclub, or metal knuckles, or a dagger, dirk, knife, pistol or other fire-arm, or any dangerous weapon.
The Penal Code of the State of Minnesota 127, § 333 (1885)
(1885)
§ 333: Prohibited the manufacture, sale, keeping for sale, offering, giving, or disposing any slung-shot, sand-club, or metal knuckles. Also prohibited the sale of any pistol or firearm to minors.
Minn. Stat. ch. 54, tit. 3, §§ 64-65 (1873)
(1873)
Of Crimes and Their Punishment, Setting Spring Guns Unlawful, § 64-65: Prohibited the setting of any trap gun, spring gun, or putting a pistol, rifle, or other deadly weapon "in this state." . Punished by imprisonment for at least 6 months or a fine of up to $500 if no injury results; imprisonment for up to 5 years if non-fatal injury results; and imprisonment for 10-15 years if death results.
The Penal Code of the State of Minnesota 127, § 334 (1885)
(1885)
§ 334: Prohibited the carry or possession with intent to use against another any slung-shot, sand-club, metal knuckles, dagger, dirk, knife, pistol, or other firearm, or any dangerous weapon. Violators guilty of misdemeanor.
The Penal Code of the State of Minnesota 126, § 323 (1885).
(1885)
Keeping Gunpowder Unlawfully: A person who makes, or keeps, gunpowder, nitro-glycerine, or any other explosive or combustible material, within a city or village, or carries such materials through the streets thereof, in a quantity or manner prohibited by law, or by ordinance of the city or village, is guilty of a misdemeanor. And a person who, by the careless, negligent or unauthorized use or management of gunpowder or other explosive substance, injures, or occasions the injury of, the person or property of another, is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one (1) year."
1889 Minn. Gen. Stat. 1012
(1888)
§ 367: A person who willfully discharges any species of firearms, air-gun, or other weapon, or throws any deadly missile in any public place, or in any place where there is any person to be endangered thereby, although no injury to any person shall ensue, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
1869 Minn. Gen. Laws 50-51
(1869)
Ch. 39, §§ 1-3: Prohibited the setting of a trap gun or spring gun, pistol, or other deadly weapon. Violators punished not less than six months in jail or fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or both if there is no injury. If death results, imprisonment not less than ten but no more than fifteen years. If injury results, punishable by imprisonment not exceeding five years.
Minn Stat. ch. 55, tit. 1, § 17 (1873)
(1873)
Whoever goes armed with a dirk, dagger, sword, pistol or pistols, or other offensive and dangerous weapon, without reasonable cause to fear an assault or other injury or violence to his person, or to his family or property, may, on complaint of any other person having reasonable cause to fear an injury or breach of the peace, be required to find sureties for keeping the peace, for a term not exceeding six months, with the right of appealing as before provided.
1891 Minn. Gen. Stat. 517, § 6289
(1891)
§ 6289: Prohibited the sale or giving of any pistol or firearm to any minor under eighteen years. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor.

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