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Kentucky

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

  • Legal sources: statutes and session laws, administrative regulations, attorney general opinions, appellate decisions, and select municipal ordinances.
  • Historical materials: newspapers, photographs, maps, catalogs, frontier militia and court records, manufacturing and river-transport archives, and oral histories tied to Kentucky people and places.
  • Research outputs: technical reports, academic studies, training manuals, and curated datasets relevant to the state.

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Jurisdiction: search.filters.coverage.KentuckyCategory: search.filters.subject.ENSLAVED PERSONS & OTHER MINORITIES

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    2 Albert G. Hodges, A Digest of the Statute Laws of Kentucky 1472 (1834)
    (1829)
    § 5 prohibited enslaved persons and other minorities from possessing firearms, subject to seizure. § 6 provided an exception for housekeepers and licensed individuals.
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    2 Albert G. Hodges, A Digest of the Statute Laws of Kentucky 1291 (1834)
    (1819)
    Provided that if any slave wound or attempt to kill any white person, that slave and their aiders and abettors would be punished by death.
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    1851 Ky. Acts 296
    (1851)
    Of Dealing With Slaves and Suffering Them to go at Large,§ 12: Prohibited "any negro" from keeping or carrying a gun, weapon, powder, or shot.
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    1859 Ky. Acts 245
    (1859)
    An Act to Amend an Act Entitled "An Act to Reduce to One of the Several Acts in Relation to the Town of Harrodsburg,"§ 23: Prohibited "any slave or free person of color, any gun, pistol, bowie knife, slung shot, sword cane, or other weapon used for the purpose of offence or defence."
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    1798 Ky. Acts 106
    (1798)
    Ch. 54,§ 5: Prohibited "negro, mulatto, or Indian" from possessing or carrying a gun, powder, shot, club, or other weapon or ammunition.