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Oklahoma

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Oklahoma. It supports research on the state’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from the Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory periods through statehood to the present.

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

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    General Laws Relating to Incorporated Towns of Indian Territory 49 (1890)
    (1890)
    Ordinance No. 16, § 3: For any person to fire or discharge any cannon, gun, fowling piece, pistol or other firearms of any description, or fire or explode any squibs, crackers or other things containing powder or other combustible or explosive material in the limits of the town without permission from the mayor, which permission, when so given, shall limit the time of such firing, and shall be subject to be revoked at any time by the mayor. Provided that it shall not be a violation of this ordinance to sound an alarm of fire by the discharge of firearms
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    General Laws Relating to Incorporated Towns of Indian Territory 37 (1890)
    (1890)
    Ordinance No. 11, § 3: Prohibited the carrying of any pistol; dirk; butcher knife; Bowie knife; sword; spear-cane, metal knuckles, razor, slungshot, sandbag, or a switchblade.
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    1899 Annotated Statutes of the Indian Territory, at 757, ch. 136, § 4345
    (1899)
    Every person other than an Indian, who within the Indian country, purchases or receives of any Indian in the way of barter, trade or pledge, a gun, trap or other article commonly used in hunting, any instrument of husbandry, or cooking utensils of the kind commonly obtained by the Indians in the intercourse with the white people, or any article of clothing except skins or furs, shall be liable to penalty of fifty dollars.
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    1890 Okla. Stat. 496, ch. 25, art. 47, § 1-10
    (1890)
    It shall be unlawful for any person to point any pistol or any other deadly weapon whether loaded or not, at any other person or persons either in anger or otherwise.
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    1899 Annotated Statutes of the Indian Territory, at 243-44, ch. 19, pt. 53, § 1250-52
    (1899)
    §Any person who shall sell, barter or exchange, or otherwise dispose of, or in any manner furnish to any person, any dirk or bowie knife, or a sword or a spear in a cane, brass or metal knucks, or any pistol of any kind whatever, except such as are used in the army or navy of the United States, and known as the navy pistol, or any kind of cartridge for any pistol, or any person who shall keep any such arms or cartridges for sale, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
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    1893 Okla. Terr. Stat. 503, ch. 25, art. 45 § 1-7
    (1893)
    Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, revolver, Bowie knife, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, sword cane, spear, metal knuckles, or any other kind of knife or instrument manufactured or sold for the purpose of defense. Also prohibited the carry of any pistol, revolver, Bowie knife, dirk knife, loaded cane, billy, metal knuckles, or any other offensive or defensive weapon. Also prohibited the sale of the weapons above to any minors.
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    1899 Annotated Statutes of the Indian Territory, at 241, ch. 19, pt. 49, § 1234
    (1899)
    If any person shall be found hunting with a gun, with intent to kill game, or shooting for amusement on the Sabbath day, on conviction thereof, he shall be fined in any sum not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars for each separate offense.
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    1890 Okla. Stat. 474, ch. 25, art. 38, § 4
    (1890)
    Any person who keeps gunpowder or saltpeter outside of regulations is guilty of a misdemeanor.
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    1890 Okla. Stat. 480, ch. 25, art. 39, § 21
    (1890)
    Every person who willfully discharges any species of firearm, air gun, or other weapon, or throws any other missile in any public place, or in any place where there is any person to be endangered thereby, although no injury to any person shall ensue, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
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    1890 Okla. Stat. 476, ch. 25, art. 38, §§ 18-20.
    (1890)
    Every person who carries concealed about his person and [sic]§description of firearms, being loaded or partly loaded, or any sharp or dangerous weapon, such as is usually employed in attack or defense of the person, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
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    1890 Okla. Stat. 447, ch. 25, art. 17, § 24
    (1890)
    Any person who keeps gunpowder or saltpeter outside of regulations where someone dies by explosion, is guilty second-degree manslaughter.