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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Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 1885 Ky. Acts 154(1885)Ch. 1233: Imposed an occupational tax of fifty dollars for dealers of pistols and bowie knives.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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 . . .Item type:Item, 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 . . . .Item type:Item, 1888 Ky. Acts 139(1888)Unlawful for Other Than Regular Militia to Drill, Ch. 1525,§ 1: It shall be unlawful for any body of men whatever, other than the regular organized militia of this Commonwealth, and the troops of the United States, to associate themselves together as a military company or other armed organizationItem type:Item, J.F. Bullitt & John Feland, The General Statutes of Kentucky 359 (1881)(1880)Ch. 29, art. 29,§ 1: If any person shall carry concealed a deadly weapon upon or about his person other than an ordinary pocket knife, or shall sell a deadly weapon to a minor other than an ordinary pocket knife, such person shall, upon indictment and conviction, be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars, and imprisoned in the county jail for not less than ten nor more than thirty days, in the discretion of the court or jury trying the case.Item type:Item, 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.