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Arkansas

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Arkansas. 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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Jurisdiction: search.filters.coverage.ArkansasStart date: 1832

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    Ark. Const. art. II, § 21 (1836)
    (1836)
    Establishes the right to keep and bear arms for "the free white men of this State."
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    1927 Ark. Acts 528
    (1927)
    § 7: Prohibited shooting fish with a gun or other instrument. Also prohibited throwing, dropping or exploding any dynamite or other explosive in the waters of the state.
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    1935 Ark. Acts 171-75
    (1935)
    Uniform Machine Gun Act, Act No. 80, §§ 1-14: Prohibited the possession of machine guns in crimes of violence, for offensive or aggressive purposes. The presence of a machine gun in any room, boat, or vehicle presumes ownership. Required registration of machine guns.
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    1931 Ark. Acts 705-06
    (1931)
    This law broadly restricts machine guns by prohibiting their transportation, sale, distribution, and possession, including allowing others to store or keep them. It also requires that any machine guns be registered with the Secretary of State. Anyone who violates these provisions faces fines ranging from $100 to $1,000.
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    1907 Ark. Acts 810
    (1907)
    Prohibited aiding and abetting of every person who shall draw a pistol, gun, or other deadly weapon upon any other person or shall serve or give notice either verbal or in writing to any other person or shall place notice upon the door or about the premises of any other person for the purpose of frightening or intimidating him from doing any lawful act.Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, fined not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars and imprisoned in county jail for twelve months.
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    1 William W. Mansfield, A Digest of the Statutes of Arkansas: Embracing All Laws of a General and Permanent Character in Force at the Close of the Session of the General Assembly of One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty-Three 490, § 1909 (1884)
    (1884)
    Prohibited the sale, barter, exchange, disposal or furnishing, or keeps any dirk, Bowie-knife, sword or spear in a cane, brass or metal knuckles, or any kind of pistol or cartridge. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor.
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    1868 Ark. Acts 218
    (1868)
    Acts of the General Assembly of Arkansas, § 13: Any person who draws a pistol, gun, or any other deadly weapon on any other person or citizen for the purpose of frightening or intimidation from lawful acts when not justified in self-defense. Violators guilty of a high misdemeanor, fined not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars, and imprisoned for twelve months.
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    1909 Ark. Acts 810
    (1909)
    Prohibited any person, firm, or corporation from giving away, selling, offering for sale, making, or manufacturing any toy pistol, fire cracker, or gun that shoots blank cartridges. Also prohibited receiving, owning, carrying, or shooting any such item.
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    1881 Ark. Acts 191-92
    (1881)
    Prohibited the carrying of any dirk, Bowie knife, sword, spear cane, metal knuckles, razor, or any pistol (except pistols that are used in the Army or Navy if carried openly in the hand). Prohibited selling, bartering, exchanging, disposing of, or furnishing any dirk, Bowie-knife, sword, spear-cane, brass or metal knuckles, any pistol, or any cartridge for any pistol. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor.
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    1868 Ark. Acts 218
    (1868)
    Acts of the General Assembly of Arkansas, § 12: Any person who threatens or draws a pistol, gun, or other deadly weapon upon a sheriff or other officer executing a civil or criminal process shall be deemed guilty of a felony, imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than five years.
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    1874-75 Ark. Acts 156-57
    (1875)
    Prohibited the carrying in public of any "pistol, gun, knife, dirk, bludgeon, or other offensive weapon, with intent to assault any person." Punishable by a fine of $25-100.
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    Ark. Const. of 1868, art. I, § 5 (retained in 1874 Ark. Const.).
    (1868)
    Provided the people a right to keep and bear arms for their common defense
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    Josiah Gould, A Digest of the Statutes of Arkansas Embracing All Laws of a General and Permanent Character in Force the Close of the Session of the General Assembly of 1856, at 380-82 (1837)
    (1837)
    Prohibited the concealed carrying of any pistol, dirk, butcher or large knife, sword cane, unless "upon a journey."
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    1838 Ark. Rev. Stat. 280
    (1838)
    § 13: Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, dirk, butcher, large knife, or sword-cane. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, fined not less than twenty-five no more than one hundred dollars and shall be imprisoned not less than one nor more than six months.
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    1838 Ark. Rev. Stat. 587
    (1838)
    § 18: Provided that every gun, rifle, weapon of any kind, ammunition found in the possession of any "free negro or mulatto" not having a license may be seized and violators fined not exceeding twenty dollars.
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    Josiah Gould, A Digest of the Statutes of Arkansas, Embracing All Laws of a General and Permanent Character in Force at the Close of the Session of the General Assembly of 1856, at 374-75 (1858)
    (1855)
    Prohibited hunting with a gun with intent to kill game or shoot for amusement on the Sabbath day. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, fined not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars.
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    1838 Ark Rev. Stat. 733-34
    (1837)
    § 23: Prohibited possession of offensive or defensive weapon without written permission of his master. Violators shall have the weapon seized and whipped not exceeding thirty stripes.