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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.

  • Legal sources: statutes and session laws, administrative rules, attorney general opinions, appellate decisions, and select municipal ordinances.
  • Historical materials: newspapers, photographs, maps, catalogs, frontier, mining, ranching, and railroad records, and oral histories tied to Montana people and places.
  • Research outputs: technical reports, academic studies, training manuals, and curated datasets relevant to the state.

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    1879 Terr. of Mont. Laws 359
    (1879)
    Ch. 4, § 23: Prohibited dueling and killing a person involved with a rifle, shot-gun, pistol, Bowie knife, dirk, small-sword, back-sword, or other dangerous weapon. Punishable by death by hanging.
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    1872 Terr. of Mont. Laws 279
    (1872)
    Ch. 4, § 59: If any person shall assault and beat another with a cowhide, stick, or whip, having at the time in his possession a pistol or other deadly weapon, with an attempt to intimidate and prevent the person assaulted from defending himself, such person shall, on conviction thereof, be imprisoned in the territorial prison not less than one nor more than ten years.
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    1872 Terr. of Mont. Laws 562
    (1872)
    Ch. 63, § 1: It shall be the duty of any keeper of the arsenal, military stores, ammunition, arms and ordnance belonging to this territory . . . to report to the governor in writing the amount of such military stores and ammunition, and a list and description of such arms and ordinance in his possession and within his knowledge
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    1874 Terr. of Mont. Laws 46
    (1873)
    An Act to Prevent Parties from Shooting within the Limits of Towns and Private Enclosures, § 1: That it shall be unlawful for any person to fire any gun, pistol or any fire-arm, of whatever description, within the limits of any town, city, or village in this territory, or within the limits of any private enclosure which shall contain a dwelling house.