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Illinois

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Illinois. 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, manufacturing and transportation records (e.g., Chicago and downstate corridors), and oral histories tied to Illinois people and places.
  • Research outputs: technical reports, academic studies, training manuals, and curated datasets relevant to the state.

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    Mason Brayman, Revised Statutes of the State of Illinois 176 (1845)
    (1845)
    Criminal Jurisprudence, § 139: Prohibited the carrying of "any pistol, gun, knife, dirk, bludgeon or other offensive weapon, with intent to assault any person. Punishable by fine up to $100 or imprisonment up to 3 months.
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    Nathaniel Pope, Laws of the Territory of Illinois 154 (1815)
    (1815)
    Prohibited to trade or gift any horse mare, gun tommahawk, knife, blanket, shrouding, calico, saddle, bridle, or any goods wares or merchandize with the Kaskasia Indians. All such sales and gifts shall be considered fraudulent. Violators fined twenty dollars.
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    Nathaniel Pope, Laws of the Territory of Illinois 25 (1815)
    (1810)
    An Act to suppress duelling, Adopted from the Virginia Code: Prohibited fighting or agreeing to fight in a duel with any engine instrument or weapon where the probably consequences might be death of either party, and in doing so shall kill his antagonist or any other person, or inflict such a wound that the person injured shall die thereof within three months. Any violators, their aiders, abettors, and councillors thereof duly convicted shall be guilty of murder and suffer death by hanging.
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    Laws Passed in the Territory of the United States North-West of the River Ohio 37-38 (1792)
    (1791)
    An Act . . . To prevent the selling or pawning of arms, ammunition, cloathing, and accoutrements, Chapter XII, Sec. 2: Prohibited the purchase of public arms, ammunition, clothing, or accoutrements pertaining to non-commissioned officers or private soldiers in service. Violators shall be fined the value and costs of the articles on the first violation. Proceeding violators shall pay fines and costs of articles and shall suffer imprisonment not exceeding one month.
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    Laws Passed in the Territory of the United States North-West of the River Ohio 30-31 (1792)
    (1788)
    A Law for regulating and establishing the Militia in the Territory of the United States north-west of the river Ohio, Chapter VIII: Required all males aged sixteen and upwards to be equipped and accoutred with a musket, bayonet, rifle, cartridge box and pouch, powder horn and bullet pouch, with forty rounds of cartridges, or one pound of powder and four pounds of lead, priming wire, and brush with six flints.
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    2d General Assembly, Illinois Territory, An Act Prohibiting Trade with the Indians (1813)
    (1813)
    An act prohibiting the trading with Indians, Sec. 2: Prohibited trading or bartering a gun or other article commonly use for hunting with tribes. Also prohibited any instrument of husbandry or cooking utensil, or clothing or horse. Violators forfeit the item and pay any sum not less than ten nor exceeding fifty dollars.
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    Samuel P. Church, The Revised Ordinances of the City of Quincy, Illinois 47 (1841)
    (1841)
    § 5: Prohibited the discharge of any cannon, musket, rifle, fowling piece, or other fire arms, air-gun, cracker, rocket, torpedo, squib, or other fire works within city limits. Violators fined not less than one, nor more than three dollars for each offense.