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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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  • Item type:Item,
    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.
  • Item type:Item,
    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.
  • Item type:Item,
    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.
  • Item type:Item,
    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.