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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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    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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    An Ordinance Concerning Slaves, and Free Negroes and Mulattos, § 1, in Arkansas Gazette, Jan. 12, 1836, at 1
    (1836)
    That no slave or free negro or mulatto whatsoever shall keep or carry, within the limits of said City, any gun, pistol or other fire arm of any kind whatsoever, or any knife, dirk, club or any weapon of offence or defence whatsoever, or any powder, balls or shot; and that any and every such weapon, and any and all such ammunition found in the possession or custody of any negro or mulatto, may be seized by any person,
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    An Ordinance to Prevent the Firing of Guns, and Running of Horses, §§ 1-2, in The Arkansas Advocate, Mar. 7, 1832, at 4
    (1832)
    §Be it ordained by the Mayor and Town Council of the town of Little Rock, That if any free person shall wantonly fire or shoot off any gun, pistol, or other fire arms, within the bounds of the corporation of the town of Little Rock; or if any person shall run, gallop or canter, any horse, mare, gelding, mule, jack or jenny, through any of the public squares, streets or alleys, of said town, he or she, if free, shall on conviction before the Mayer of the town, forfeit and pay for each offence a sum not exceeding§ten dollars, and shall moreover stand committed until the same be paid together with the attendant costs; and if a slave be guilty of any of the above offences, he or she shall, for each offence, receive on his or her bare back,§ten§stripes or lashes, to be well laid on by the town constable.
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    1835 Ark. Terr. Laws 521
    (1835)
    No slave or mulatto whatsoever, shall keep or carry a gun, powder, shot, club or other weapon whatsoever, offensive or defensive; but all and every gun weapon and ammunition found in the possession or custody of any negro or mulatto, may be seized by any person and upon due proof made before any justice of the peace of the district [county] where such seizure shall be, shall by his order be forfeited to the seizor, for his own use, and moreover, every such offender shall have and receive by order of such justice any number of lashes not exceeding thirty nine on his or her bare back well laid on for every such offense.
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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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    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.