Alabama
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Alabama
This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Alabama. It supports research on the state’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from the territorial period to the present.
- Legal sources: statutes and session laws, administrative code, attorney general opinions, appellate decisions, and select municipal ordinances.
- Historical materials: newspapers, photographs, maps, catalogs, company records, and oral histories tied to Alabama 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, John G. Aikin, A Digest of the Laws of the State of Alabama 391–92 (1833)(1805)Prohibited any "slave" from keeping or carrying any gun or ammunition without permission from a justice of the peace.Item type:Item, 1841 Ala. Laws 148-49(1841)§ 4: Prohibited the concealed carrying of "a bowie knife, or knife or instrument of the like kind or description, by whatever name called, dirk or any other deadly weapon, pistol or any species of firearms, or air gun," unless the person is threatened with an attack or is traveling or "setting out on a journey." Punished by a fine of $50-100.Item type:Item, 1867 Ala. Code 169(1867)§ 434, pt. 10: Tax of $2 on pistols or revolvers in the possession of private persons, excluding dealers, and a tax of $3 on "all bowie knives, or knives of the like description." Non-payment was punishable by seizure and, unless payment was made within 10 days with a penalty of an additional 50%, subject to sale by public auction.Item type:Item, Item type:Item, 1862 Ala. Laws 8(Ala. Statutes, 1862)Wartime tax of 5% on net profits of various businesses, including establishments that produced guns, pistols, pikes, and Bowie knives.Item type:Item, 1868 Ala. Laws 333(1868)§ 112, pt. 28: Required licenses for dealers in firearms. Licenses were priced at twenty dollars.Item type:Item, 1833 Ala. Laws 627(1823)Prohibited any slave from keeping or carrying any gun or ammunition without permission from a justice of the peace.Item type:Item, Item type:Item, John G. Aikin, A Digest of the Laws of the State of Alabama 201-02 (1822)(1822)Prohibited hunting with fire at night-time. Punishable by a fine of fifty dollars. Only construed to "embrace persons hunting deer with a gun and fire at night."Item type:Item, 1852 Ala. Code 588(1852)Prohibited the concealed carry of a pistol, or any other firearms, while not being threatened or having good reason to believe attack is imminent. Also prohibited the concealed carry of knives and handguns. Violators fined not less than fifty, but no more than three hundred dollars.Item type:Item, 1861 Ala. Laws 214-15(1861)Appropriated $6000 to purchase Bowie knives and Bowie knife pikes for the 48th regiment of the Alabama militia at an inflated price of $3 per Bowie knife due to Bowie knife restrictions. The average value of a Bowie knife was fifty cents in other states.Item type:Item, 1837 Ala. Laws 7(1837)Mandated that any person carrying a Bowie knife or Arkansas toothpick who cuts or stabs another, causing them to die, shall be adjudged as a crime of murder, with the offender having held malice aforethought. Imposed tax of $100 on any person selling, giving, or disposing of any Bowie knife or Arkansas toothpick. Failure to pay the tax was subject to penalty of perjury.Item type:Item, 1839 Ala. Laws 67(1839)Prohibited the concealed carrying of "any species of fire arms, or any bowie knife, Arkansas tooth-pick, or any other knife of the like kind, dirk, or any other deadly weapon." Punished by fine of $50-100 and imprisonment not to exceed 3 months.Item type:Item, 1866 Ala. Pen. Code 63(1866)§ 204: Prohibited selling, giving, or lending any pistol, Bowie-knife, or other knife of like kind to a minor under eighteen years of age. Violators fined not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars.Item type:Item, Clement Comer Clay, Digest of the Laws of Alabama 413 (1843)(1843)Prohibited fighting or discharging a firearm or air-gun in any city, town, or militia muster, or public assembly. Violators fined not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not exceeding six months, or both at the discretion of the judge.Item type:Item, 1856 Ala. Laws 17(1856)That anyone who shall sell or give or lend, to any male minor, a bowie knife, or knife or instrument of the like kind or description, by whatever name called, or air gun or pistol, shall, on conviction be fined not less than three hundred, nor more than one thousand dollars.Item type:Item, Clement Comer Clay, Digest of the Laws of Alabama 416 (1843)(1843)§ 31. Prohibited assault and battery of another with a cowhide, stick, or whip while in possession of a pistol or other deadly weapon with the intent to intimidate another to prevent the person from defending himself. Violators imprisoned not less than two nor more than twenty years.Item type:Item, 1865-66 Ala. Laws 7(1866)§ 2, pt. 11: Imposed an annual tax of two dollars on each person who is not a regular dealer but in possession of pistols and revolvers. Imposed an annual tax of three dollars on each person who is not a regular dealer but in possession of bowie knives or knives of like description.Item type:Item, 1852 Ala. Code 588-89(1841)Prohibited the concealed carrying of " a bowie knife, or knife or instrument of the like kind or description, by whatever name called, dirk or any other deadly weapon, pistol or any species of firearms, or air gun," unless the person is threatened with an attack or is traveling or " setting out on a journey." Punished by a fine of $50-100.Item type:Item, Ala. Const. art. I, § 23(1819)Declared every citizen has a right to bear arms in defence of himself and the State.