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.
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Item type:Item, Ordinance No. 101: An Ordinance to Regulate the Discharge of Guns and Fireworks, in L.A. Civill, Charter of the City of Louisville, Ky.: Part Third, Ordinances of the City of Louisville 80 (1862) (enacted 1853)(1853)Any person who shall discharge a gun, pistol, or other fire-arms, or any person, who shall set off a squib, cracker, or other fire works, in any public place, or send up a paper balloon or sky rocket, or throw a fire ball within the city, shall be fined four dollars.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 1856 Ky. Acts 139(1855)An Act to Incorporate the Town of Baltimore, Hickman County, ch. 475,§ 10: Any person who shall shoot off a gun or pistol, or shall run or gallop a horse creature in said town, shall be liable to a fine of not less than two nor more than four dollarsItem type:Item, 1853 Ky. Acts 186(1854)Ch. 1020,§ 1-2: Prohibited the concealed carry of any deadly weapons. Violators fined not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars on first conviction. Subsequent convictions fined not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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 .Item type:Item, C.A. Wickliffe et al., The Revised Statutes of Kentucky 671 (1852)(1852)Art. 7,§ 1: No person, except a gunsmith on his own premises, shall shoot off a gun or pistol in a town. Any person offending herein shall be fined five dollars and costs, to be collected by the trustees, and applied to keeping the streets of the town in repair.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, Ordinance No. 78: An Ordinance as to Retailing Gunpowder, in L.A. Civill, Charter of the City of Louisville, Ky.: Part Third, Ordinances of the City of Louisville 55 (1862) (enacted 1853)(1853)Prohibited the sale of gunpowder to minors under 15 years of age, "free colored persons," or "slaves" without permission from a parent, guardian, or master.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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 dangerousItem type:Item, 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."Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 1855 Ky. Acts 96-7(1855)Ch. 636: Prohibited vending, buying, selling, or dealing in colts, brass knuckles, slung-shots, or any imitation or substitute therefor. Violators fined twenty-five dollars. Any use of the above to strike, beat, wound, or bruise another shall be punished by forfeit of the weapon and a fine of one hundred dollars to go to the victim.