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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,
    Ordinance No. 126: An Ordinance Relating to the Carrying of Concealed Weapons, in The Virginia Enterprise, Feb. 9, 1912, at 12
    (1912)
    No person shall go armed with a dirk, dagger, sword, pistol, revolver, air-gun, stiletto, metallic knuckles, pocket billie, sand bag, skull cracker, sling shot, razor or other offensive and dangerous weapon or instrument concealed upon his person, within the limits of the City of Virginia. Provided this ordinance shall not apply to public officers of the City of Virginia when on duty, nor to any person whose occupation or business may seem to require the carrying of weapons for protection, and who shall have obtained from the Mayor of said city a license so to do.
  • Item 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 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,
    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 weapon
  • 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.