Oklahoma

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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.

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1907-08 Okla. Sess. Laws 562, ch. 59, art. 1, § 1
(1908)
The governor of the state shall be the commander-in-chief of the militia, and as such shall have supreme command of the military forces of the state while in the service of the state, or until they are ordered and accepted into the service of the United States. While in the service of the state, he shall have power at any time to muster out any militia organization of the state, and he may discharge any enlisted man, and he may cause to be mustered out and discharged any commissioned officers who shall wilfully [sic] neglect the duties of his office, or shall fail to properly account for public property or money in his possession, as such officer.
1903 Terr. of Okla. Sess. Laws 107, ch. 7, art 1, § 4.
(1903)
The board of trustees shall have the following powers. . . to regulate the storage of gunpowder and other materials[.]
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
1903 Okla. Rev. Stat. Ann. 643-44 ch. 25, art. 45, § 583-592
(1903)
Prohibited the concealed carrying of any pistol, revolver, Bowie knife, dirk, dagger, slungshot, sword cane, spear, metal knuckles, or other kind of knife manufactured for defense.
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.
Ordinance No. 13: An Act to Prohibit the Carrying of Concealed Weapons, OKEENE EAGLE, Mar. 10, 1902, at 1 (Okeene, Oklahoma).
(1902)
§It shall be unlawful for any person to carry upon his person any concealed pistol, revolver, dirk, bowie knife, billy, sling shot, metal knuckles, or other dangerous or deadly weapons of any kind, excepting only officers of the law in the discharge of their duties
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Annotated Statutes of the Indian Territory: Embracing All Laws of a General and Permanent Character in Force at the Close of the Second Session of the Fifty-fifth Congress, at 228, § 1149 (1899)
(1868)
Every person who shall draw a pistol, gun or any other deadly weapon upon any other person, for the purpose of frightening or intimidating him from doing or attempting to do any lawful act, when such person drawing said pistol, gun or other deadly weapon is not justified in self-defense for so doing, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be fined in a sum not less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars and be imprisoned in the county jail for twelve months.
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.
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.
1913 Okla. Sess. Laws 7, ch. 7,§§ 1.
(1913)
Any person who enters any building, railway car, vehicle, or structure and there opens or attempts to open any vault, safe, or receptacle used or kept for the secure keeping of money, securities, books of accounts, or other valuable property, papers or documents, without the consent of the owner, by the use of or aid of dynamite, nitroglycerine, gunpowder, or other explosives, or who enters any such building, railway car, vehicle or structure in which is kept any vault, safe or other receptacle for the safe keeping of money or other valuable property, papers, books, or documents, with intent and without the consent of the owner, to open or crack such vault, safe or receptacle by the aid or use of any explosive, shall in either case be deemed guilty of a felony,

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