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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.
  • Item 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.
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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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    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 .
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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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    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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    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.