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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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  • Item type:Item,
    1864 Terr. of Mont. Acts 182
    (1864)
    § 35: Prohibited dueling and killing a person with a rifle, shotgun, pistol, Bowie knife, dirk, small sword, backsword, or other dangerous weapon. Violators guilty of murder in the first degree.
  • Item type:Item,
    1864 Terr. of Mont. Acts 355
    (1865)
    § 1 [Deadly weapons]: Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, Bowie-knife, dagger, or other deadly weapon. Violators fined not less than twenty-five but no more than one hundred dollars.
  • Item type:Item,
    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.
  • Item type:Item,
    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.
  • Item type:Item,
    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
  • Item type:Item,
    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.
  • Item type:Item,
    1864 Terr. of Mont. Laws 355
    (1864)
    An Act to Prevent the Carrying of Concealed Deadly Weapons in the Cities and Towns of This Territory, § 1: Prohibited the carrying of a concealed "any pistol, bowie -knife, dagger, or other deadly weapon" within any town or village in the territory. Punishable by fine of $25-100.