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Montana

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Montana. It supports research on the state’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from the territorial period through statehood to the present.

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    Mont. Const. of 1889 art. III, § 13
    (1889)
    The right of any person to keep or bear arms in defense of his own home, person, and property, or in aid of the civil power when thereto legally summoned, shall not be called in question, but nothing herein contained shall be held to permit the carrying of concealed weapons
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    1903 Mont. Laws 135-36
    (1903)
    An Act to Amend Section 908 of Chapter I Title VIII Part IV Division I of the Civil Code of Montana, and to Repeal Section 689 of the Penal Code, ch. 66, § 1: If any railroad corporation within this State shall . . . transport within this State on any of its passenger cars, any oil of vitrol, gun powder, Lucifer matches, nitro glycerine, glynon oil, nytroleum or blasting oil, or nitrates oil, or powder mixed with any such oil, or fiber saturated therewith, or duolin or giant powder, or blasting powder, or any other goods in a dangerous nature . . . shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
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    The Complete Codes and Statutes of the State of Montana 1084, § 759 (1895)
    (1895)
    Pt. 1, tit. 11, § 759: Every person who brings into this state an armed person or armed body of men for the preservation of the peace or the suppression of domestic violence, except at the solicitation and by the permission of the legislative assembly or of the governor, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison not exceeding ten years and by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars.
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    1903 Mont. Laws 49
    (1903)
    Ch. 35, § 3: Prohibited entering any church, religious assembly, 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 into a ball room, social party, or social gathering, or to any election precinct or any place of registration, on the day or days of any election or registration, where people of the State are collected to register or vote on any election. Prohibited weapons included pistol, other firearms, dirk, dagger, slung shot, sword cane, knuckles, or Bowie knife. Violators punished by not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars.
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    The Complete Codes and Statutes of the State of Montana 1084, § 758 (1895)
    (1895)
    Pt. 1, tit. 11, § 758: Every person who within the limits of any city or town carries or bears concealed about his person a dirk, dagger, pistol, revolver, or other deadly weapon is punishable by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars. This Section does not apply to peace officers in discharge of their official duty.
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    1907 Mont. Laws 260
    (1907)
    Ch. 107, § 1: Any person who enters a building belonging to another with intent to commit a felony or other crime by the use of nitro glycerine, dynamite, gun powder or other high explosives or who commits a burglary by the use of such explosives is guilty of burglary with explosives. § 2 Burglary with explosives is punishable by imprisonment in State Prison for not less than fifteen years, and not more than forty years.