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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.
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    W.M. S. Thorington, The Code of Ordinances of the City Council of Montgomery 223, 225, 229 (1888)
    (1888)
    These ordinances restrict the use, possession, and transport of weapons and explosives: firing guns in public is banned except for self-defense or law enforcement, and discharging firearms or fireworks requires official permission; carrying concealed weapons is prohibited and punishable by fines or hard labor, though fear of attack may mitigate the offense; and transporting gunpowder must be done safely and out of public view.
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    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.
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    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.