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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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    1891 Ky. Acts 1076
    (1891)
    An Act for the Government of Cities of the Third Class, pt. 13: To regulate, restrain or prevent the establishment or continuance in or near said city of any trade or occupation, business or manufactory offensive to the public, or dangerous to health, or in causing or producing fire: and to regulate the sale of fire-arms and to prevent the carrying of concealed deadly weapons.
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    1898 Ky. Stat. 547
    (1898)
    Sec. 1259: Hunting or fishing on another's land. Any person who shall enter upon the inclosed lands of another for the purpose of shooting, hunting, or fishing, without the consent of the owner or occupant of said lands, shall be fined not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars.
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    1904 Ky. Acts 150-51
    (1904)
    An Act Creating the Offices of Fish and Game Wardens and Defining the Powers and Duties and Fixing the Compensation of such Officers, and for the Further Protection and Preservation of Fish, Game and Birds in the State of Kentucky, ch. 68,§ 3: Game wardens . . . may arrest on sight and without warrant any person detected by them in the act of violating any such law; they shall have the same right as sheriffs to require aid in executing any process or in arresting without process any person found by them in the act of violating any of said laws; and they shall have authority to seize without process; and birds, fish or game then found in the possession of any such person, together with the guns, nets, seines, traps or other devices, with which the same were taken or killed, and destroy or confiscate such guns, nets, seines, traps or other devices, and forthwith convey such offender before a court or magistrate . .
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    1891 Ky. Acts 346
    (1891)
    Ch. 103: Tax of fifty dollars on sales of Bowie-knives, dirks, brass-knucks, or slung-shots.
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    1885 Ky. Acts 154
    (1885)
    Ch. 1233: Imposed an occupational tax of fifty dollars for dealers of pistols and bowie knives.
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    1890 Ky. Acts 618
    (1890)
    An Acts to Establish a City Government for the Town of North Middle-Town, ch 327 Article III§7: The council should have the power tor regulate and restrain the firing and concealed carry of firearms.
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    Ky. Const. of 1891,§ 1(7)
    (1891)
    The right to bear arms in defense of themselves and of the State, subject to the power of the General Assembly to enact laws to prevent persons from carrying concealed weapons.
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    1912 Ky. Acts 593
    (1912)
    Regulate Storage of Explosives and Provide Against Fires,§ 17: To regulate the storage of gunpowder, rosin, tar, pitch, cotton, oil and all other explosives and combustible material, and to appoint some suitable person or persons, at seasonable times, to enter and examine such houses as they may designate, in order to ascertain whether any of such houses are in a dangerous condition with reference to fires, and to cause such as are in a dangerous condition to be immediately put in safe order and condition.
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    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 organization
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    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.