Kentucky

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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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1 Albert G. Hodges, A Digest of the Statute Laws of Kentucky 540 (1834)
(1809)
Authorized the arrest of individuals who willfully and maliciously stabbed, shot, or injured another.
2 Albert G. Hodges, A Digest of the Statute Laws of Kentucky 1289-90 (1834)
(1813)
Prohibited the concealed carry of any pocket pistol, dirk, knife, or sword cane, unless traveling.
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.
2 Albert G. Hodges, A Digest of the Statute Laws of Kentucky 1211 (1834)
(1831)
Required the quartermaster general to distribute public arms among the members of each company.
2 Albert G. Hodges, A Digest of the Statute Laws of Kentucky 1267 (1834)
(1801)
Provided a six month to six year prison sentence for murder.
2 Albert G. Hodges, A Digest of the Statute Laws of Kentucky 1281 (1834)
(1802)
§ 13 provided one- to five-year prison sentence for wounding another nonfatally with a deadly weapon. § 15 provided one- to two-year prison sentence for assault and attempted robbery.
2 Albert G. Hodges, A Digest of the Statute Laws of Kentucky 1284 (1834)
(1804)
Provided one- to five-year prison sentence for wounding another nonfatally with a deadly weapon.
2 Albert G. Hodges, A Digest of the Statute Laws of Kentucky 1301 (1834)
(1828)
Criminalized the nonfatal wounding of another with a deadly weapon in a sudden affray or heat of passion.
1 Albert G. Hodges, A Digest of the Statute Laws of Kentucky 148–49 (1834)
(1814)
Authorized the governor to take and keep public arms.
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.
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.
1839 Ky. Acts 246
(1839)
An Act to Amend the Several Acts Concerning the Towns of Paris and Elizabethtown, chap. 1279,§ 8: They shall have power to ordain a penalty on persons who shall be guilty of running horses within the limits of said town, blowing horns, or crying aloud, in such manner as to disturb the peace and quiet of the town, or the shooting a gun, or pistol in said town, any sum not exceeding twenty dollars.
1813 Ky. Acts 100
(1813)
An Act to Prevent Persons in this Commonwealth from Wearing Concealed Arms, Except in Certain Cases, ch. 89,§ 1.: Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, that any person in this Commonwealth, who shall hereafter wear a pocket pistol, dirk, large knife, or sword in a cane, concealed as a weapon, unless when travelling on a journey, shall be fined .
1807 Ky. Acts 1
(1807)
An Act to Amend an act titled "An Act Concerning the Militia," ch. 1§ 3: Imposed a fine of up to fifty cents on each non commissioned officer and private appearing on parade without a gun after being duly notified.
1 Albert G. Hodges, A Digest of the Statute Laws of Kentucky 578-79 (1834)
(1800)
Tit. 64,§ 6: That if any person within this Commonwealth, shall challenge, by word or writing, the person of another to fight at sword, pistol, or other deadly weapon, such person, (a) so challenging, shall forfeit and pay, for every such offence, being thereof lawfully convicted, in any court of record within the Commonwealth, by the testimony of one or more witnesses, or by the confession of the party offending, the sum of five hundred dollars, or shall suffer twelve months' imprisonment, without bail or mainprize.
1806 Ky. Acts 122
(1806)
An Act to Amend the Several Acts for the Better Regulation of the Town of Lexington,§ 3: Be it further enacted, That said trustees are herby authorised [sic] to make such regulations as they may deem necessary and proper, relative to the keeping of gun-powder in the said town of Lexington, and if necessary may prohibit any inhabitants of said town, from keeping in the settled parts thereof, any quantity of gun powder which might in case of fire be dangerous
1 Albert G. Hodges, A Digest of the Statute Laws of Kentucky 788 (1834)
(1834)
That whosoever shall hereafter use any fire-hunting or the killing of any deer by such means on any patented land, every person present at such fire hunting shall forfeit and pay twenty shillings for every such offense; and if any Indian be found fire-hunting as aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful for the owner of such land, or his or her overseer, to take away the gun of such Indian, and the same to keep to his own use.
By-Laws & Ordinances for the Police of the Town of Lexington 36 (1809)
(1809)
4: "Be it further ordained, That no person except watchmen in the discharge of their duty, shall fire a gun or pistol within the limits of the in lots of this town, unless in the defence of life or property, under the penalty of three dollars for every such offence.

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