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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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    2 Albert G. Hodges, A Digest of the Statute Laws of Kentucky 1167 (1834)
    (1815)
    Required all free men to bear arms for the common defense, but conscientious objectors were ordered to pay a sum equal to the value of the foregone personal services.
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    1888 Ky. Acts 139
    (1888)
    Unlawful for Other Than Regular Militia to Drill, Ch. 1525,§ 1: It shall be unlawful for any body of men whatever, other than the regular organized militia of this Commonwealth, and the troops of the United States, to associate themselves together as a military company or other armed organization
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    1873 Ky. Acts 35-36
    (1873)
    Pub. Acts ch. 767§ 1-9: If two or more persons shall unlawfully confederate or band together, and go forth armed or disguised, they shall each, on conviction thereof, be imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than six nor more than twelve months, or fined, in the discretion of the jury, in a sum not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars, and imprisoned in the county jail for a period of not less than three nor more than six months.