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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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Start date: 1819End date: 1849

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    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.
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    1833 Ala. Laws 627
    (1823)
    Prohibited any slave from keeping or carrying any gun or ammunition without permission from a justice of the peace.
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    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."
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    1848 Ala. Laws 121-22
    (1848)
    Prohibited any person or persons from receiving, keeping, or storing in any building within three miles of the Mobile River or Bay, gun-powder, gun-cotton, or other explosive material in larger quantities than one hundred pounds.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    Ala. Const. art. I, § 23
    (1819)
    Declared every citizen has a right to bear arms in defence of himself and the State.