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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.

  • Legal sources: statutes and session laws, administrative code, attorney general opinions, appellate decisions, and select municipal ordinances.
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    Ordinance 21, in Green Forest Tribune, May 11, 1899, at 1
    (1899)
    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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    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.