Minnesota
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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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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 parkItem type:Item, An Ordinance to Prevent the Carrying of Concealed Weapons, §§ 1-3, in The Worthington Advance, Feb. 9, 1882, at 3(1882)That it shall be unlawful for any person within the corporate limits of the village of Worthington to carry any pistol, dirk, slung shot or other dangerous weapon, concealed on his person.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, 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 VeteransItem type:Item, School Law & Ordinances of the City of Minneapolis 19-20 (Grove B. Cooley 1883).(1883)Ch.4, § 5, nos. 5 & 15 : To regulate the storage of gun powder and discharge of firearmsItem type:Item, Charter and Ordinances of the City of Moorhead, Minnesota 49 (1892)(1882)An Ordinance Relating to Offences Affecting Public Peace and Quiet, §§ 1-4 & 8: SECTION 1. Any person who shall be found in a state or condition of drunkenness or intoxication, or who shall make or assist in making any improper noise, disturbance or diversion, or shall conduct himself in a disorderly manner, or shall be guilty of firing any gun or guns or any pistol or revolver or revolvers, or fighting in this city, shall, on conviction before one of the justices of the peace of this city, pay a fine of not less than three dollars nor more than one hundred dollars and costs of prosecution.Item type:Item, Jos. A. Eckstein, The Charter and Ordinances of the City of New Ulm 110-11 (1887)(1888)Ordinance no. 22, §§ 1-6: It shall be unlawful for any person, within the limits of this city to carry or wear under his clothes or concealed about his person, any pistol, dirk, sling-shot, or knuckle of brass or other metal, or any other dangerous or deadly weaponItem type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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."Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.