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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.
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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
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    1851 Terr. of Minn. Rev. Stat. 528
    (1851)
    Ch. 112, § 18: Required any person going armed with any dirk, dagger, sword, pistol, or other offensive and dangerous weapon to post a surety once a complaint was filed, having cause to fear an injury or breach of the peace. Surety not to exceed six months with appeals provided. §18 provided that a surety may surrender his principal upon breach of the condition of recognizance.
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    City Charter of the City of Hastings 74 (1870)
    (1870)
    Ordinance No. 74-An Ordinance Relating to Breaches of the Peace, Disorderly Conduct and the Carrying of Concealed Weapons, § 3: Any person who shall go armed within the incorporated limits of said city of Hastings with a dirk, dagger, sword, pistol or pistols, or shall carry a slung-shot or metal knuckles or other offensive or dangerous weapon, without reasonable cause to fear an assault or other injury to his person or to his family or property, shall, upon conviction before said justice, be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding three months, or both, in the discretion of the justice."
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.