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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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    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.
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    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.
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    Carrying Weapons or Sale to Minors Prohibited, Amendment to Ordinance No. 11-Crimes and Punishment, §§ 7-9 in Ordinances, Charter and Laws for the Government of the City of Frankfort, Kentucky (1876)
    (1876)
    Prohibited discharge of any gun or pistol in the city unless in lawful defense. Also prohibited concealed carry of deadly weapons except ordinary pocket knives. Also prohibited selling deadly weapons to minors other than pocket knives.
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    1871 Ky. Acts 89
    (1871)
    Act to Prohibit the Carrying of Concealed Deadly Weapons, ch. 1888,§ 1-2, 5: That if any person shall hereafter carry concealed any deadly weapon upon their persons other than an ordinary pocket-knife, except as provided for in next section, he shall be fined, on the first conviction, not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than sixty days, or both so fined and imprisoned; and on any subsequent conviction not less than one hundred nor more than four hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less than two months nor more than six months, or both.
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    1876 Ky. Acts 450
    (1875)
    An Act to Amend an Act Entitled "An Act to Amend and Reduce into One Several Acts in Regard to the Town of Vanceburg, in Lewis County" 43 : No person, except watchmen, gunsmiths and militiamen in the discharge of their duty, or unless in defense of life or property, shall fire a gun or pistol within the city limits: any person thus offending shall be fined not less than one dollar nor more than five dollars.
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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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    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 dollars
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    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.
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    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.
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    1874 Ky. Acts 332
    (1874)
    An Act to Revise and Amend the Charter of the City of Newport,§ 6: To prohibit the manufacture of gunpowder or other explosive, dangerous, or noxious compounds or substances in said city, and to regulate their sale and storage by license.
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    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.
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    Edward I. Bullock & William Johnson, The General Statutes of the Commonwealth of Kentucky 345 (1873)
    (1873)
    11: If any person shall hunt game with a gun or dogs on the Sabbath, he shall be fined not less than five nor more than fifty dollars for each offense.
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    Edward I. Bullock & William Johnson, The General Statutes of the Commonwealth of Kentucky 669 (1873)
    (1873)
    Ch. 76, art. V,§ 3: A soldier who unnecessarily, or without order from a superior officer, comes to any parade with his musket, rifle, or pistol loaded with ball, slug, or shot, or shall so load the same while on duty, or unnecessarily, or without order from a superior officer, discharges the same when going to, returning from, or upon parade, shall forfeit not less than one nor more than five dollars.
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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 . . . .
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    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."
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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.
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    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.