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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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    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.]
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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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    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."