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Arizona

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Arizona. 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 code, attorney general opinions, appellate decisions, and select municipal ordinances.
  • Historical materials: newspapers, photographs, maps, catalogs, railroad and mining records, and oral histories tied to Arizona people and places.
  • Research outputs: technical reports, academic studies, training manuals, and curated datasets relevant to the state.

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    1889 Ariz. Sess. Laws 30-31
    (1889)
    Prohibited carrying "a pistol or other firearm, dirk, dagger, slung shot, sword cane, spear, brass knuckles, bowie knife, or any other kind of a knife manufactured and sold for the purposes of offense or defense" to "any church or religious assembly, any school room, or other place where persons are assembled for amusement or for educational or scientific purposes, or into any circus, show or public exhibition of any kind, or to a ball room, social party or social gathering, or to any election precinct on the day or days of any election, where any portion of the people of this Territory are collected to vote at any election, or to any other place where people may be assembled to minister or to perform any other public duty, or to any other public assembly." Any peace officer who refuses to arrest anyone with the carry on the person, or in saddlebags, of any pistol, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, sword-cane, spear, brass knuckles, Bowie-knife, or any other kind of knife manufactured for purposes of offense or defense shall be punished by fine not exceeding three hundred dollars.
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    1889 Ariz. Sess. Laws 30
    (1889)
    Prohibited the carry on the person, or in saddlebags, of any pistol, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, sword-cane, spear, brass knuckles, Bowie-knife, or any other kind of knife manufactured for purposes of offense or defense. Only applied within any settlement, town, village or city. Violators fined not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars, and shall forfeit the weapons to the county upon conviction.
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    Tombstone, Ariz., Ordinance 9 (Apr. 19, 1881), reprinted in Jane Eppinga, Postcard History Series: Tombstone 30 (2010)
    (1881)
    Prohibited the carry of deadly weapons. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor and fined two hundred and fifty dollars or imprisoned for thirty days, or both fine and imprisoned.
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    Ariz. Rev. Stat. tit. XI, § 662 (1887)
    (1887)
    Prohibited any person in any city, village, or town from having or carrying concealed any dirk, dirk-knife, Bowie-knife, slung-shot, brass knuckles, pistol, or other weapon. Violators fined not more than three hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
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    1883 Ariz. Sess. Laws 65-66
    (1883)
    Prohibited any person over the age of ten but under the age of seventeen from carrying any dirk, dirk-knife, Bowie-knife, slung-shot, brass knuckles, or pistol. Also prohibited drawing or exhibiting deadly weapons in a rude, angry, or threatening manner, unlawful use in a fight or quarrel, or careless handling that endangered another person, as well as the purposely or carelessly discharging of a firearm in any saloon, dance-house, or other public business.
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    1883 Ariz. Sess. Laws 21-22
    (1883)
    Prohibited anyone over the age of ten from carrying with malicious intent or to intimidate with any dirk, dirk-knife, Bowie-knife, pistol, rifle, shotgun, or firearms of any kind. Violators fined not less than twenty but no more than fifty dollars, or imprisoned not less than five no more than ten days.