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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.

  • Legal sources: statutes and session laws, administrative rules, attorney general opinions, appellate decisions, and select municipal ordinances.
  • Historical materials: newspapers, photographs, maps, catalogs, fur trade and frontier records, logging and Iron Range mining archives, and oral histories tied to Minnesota people and places.
  • Research outputs: technical reports, academic studies, training manuals, and curated datasets relevant to the state.

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  • Item type:Item,
    Proceedings of the Common Council of the City of Saint Paul 133 (1891)
    (1891)
    Ordinance no. 1507, § 6: Prohibited the carry of firearms, shooting of birds, or throwing of stones or other missiles within the park
  • Item type:Item,
    W.P. Murray, The Municipal Code of Saint Paul 39 (1884)
    (1884)
    No. 19: To provide for the receipt, storage, transportation, safe keeping and dealing and traffic in gun powder, gun cotton, petroleum, kerosene or other dangerous, explosive or inflammable oils or substances within said city, or within one mile of the corporate limits thereof, and to provide for the summary condemnation or destruction of any of said articles as may be kept, stored, dealt in, transported through or received in said city, contrary to such ordinance s said city may enact for the safety of life and property therein.]
  • Item type:Item,
    Annual Reports of the City Officers and City Boards of the City of Saint Paul 689 (1888)
    (1888)
    No. 6: Prohibited carrying fire arms, throwing stones, or other missiles in any park or within fifty yards thereof.
  • Item type:Item,
    W.P. Murray, The Municipal Code of Saint Paul 289-90 (1884)
    (1882)
    Art. 18, §§ 1, 7: "Sec 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, within the limits of the city of St. Paul, to carry or wear under his clothes, or concealed about his person, any pistol or pistols, dirk, dagger, sword, slungshot, cross-knuckles, or knuckles of lead, brass or other metal, bowie-knife, dirk-knife or razor, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon. Sec. 7. The Mayor of the city of St. Paul may grant to so many, and to such persons as he may think proper, licenses to carry concealed weapons; and may revoke any and all of such licenses at his pleasure.
  • Item type:Item,
    The Charter and Ordinances of the City of St. Paul 166-67 (1863)
    (1858)
    Ch. 21, §§ 1-5: Prohibited the keeping, sale, or giving away of gun powder or gun cotton "in any quantity" absent payment of $5 to the City Treasurer and written permission of the authorities. Authorized any person to "keep for his own use" no more than 1 pound of gun powder or gun cotton at any one time. Punishable by a fine not to exceed $50 per offense.