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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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    Charter of the City of Covington 148-49 (1864)
    (1864)
    Banned powder magazines, limited household gunpowder storage, and required licenses and safety measures for gunpowder sales.
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    1869 Ky. Acts 481
    (1869)
    An Act to Amend and Reduce into One the Several Acts in Reference to the Town of Princeton, art. V, pt. 14: To regulate the keeping and conveying of gun-powder and other combustible and dangerous materials.
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    1866 Ky. Acts 52
    (1866)
    An Act to Prevent Shooting on the Sabbath in this Commonwealth, ch. 656§ 1: That no person shall, within this Commonwealth, on the Sabbath day, enter or go upon the land of another person to catch, shoot, or kill any birds, fowl, or animal of any kind; and any such person having in his possession a gun at the time, or after he enters upon the premises of another as aforesaid, shall, upon proof, be guilty of a violation of this act, and, upon conviction thereof, by proceedings before any justice of the peace, in any county of the State . . .
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    1866 Ky. Acts 715
    (1866)
    An Act to Amend the Charter of the Town of New Castle, ch. 819§ 2: If any person shall shoot off a gun or pistol within the corporate limits of said town, it shall be the duty of the trustees and officers of said town to report the fact to the police judge, who shall forthwith have the person so offending arrested and brought before him for trial, and, on conviction of the offense, shall be fined by said judge in a sum not to exceed ten dollars, and a forfeiture to said town of the gun or shall be the duty of said judge to have the gun or pistol so used sold at public auction, and the proceeds thereof shall be paid into the treasury of said town . . . .