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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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    1799 Ky. Acts 7
    (1799)
    An Act to Amend an Act Entitled "An Act Concerning the Militia," p. 421-22,§ 1-3: [T]he brigadier generals shall attend each regimental muster within their brigades to view the same; it shall be the duty of the brigade major, attended by the commandant of the regimnt, to inspect the same at every muster.§ 2. All fines arising within the bounds of any regiment, on account of delinquencies of officers, privates, or otherwise, shall be appropriated to the use of such regiment only.§ 3. . . . [E]ach non-commissioned officer shall have ten days notice of each muster; and each non-commissioned officer and private, appearing on parade without a gun after being duly notified, shall be fined any sum not exceeding fifty cents, at the discretion of a court martial.
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    Ky. Const. of 1792 art. XII,§ 23
    (1792)
    Declared the right of citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and of the State shall not be questioned.
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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.