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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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Start date: 1810Category: search.filters.subject.COMMITTING CRIME W/ WEAPON

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    2 Albert G. Hodges, A Digest of the Statute Laws of Kentucky 1291 (1834)
    (1819)
    Provided that if any slave wound or attempt to kill any white person, that slave and their aiders and abettors would be punished by death.
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    1924 Ky. Acts 76
    (1924)
    Malicious Shooting, Stabbing or Poisoning; Deadly Weapon,§ 1166: Prohibited willfully or maliciously shooting at or drawing a gun on a person.
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    1934 Ky. Acts 169-70
    (1934)
    An Act . . . prescribing punishment for robbery or burglary . . ., ch. 52,§ 1159(a): That if any person shall commit acts of robbery, burglary . . . robbery of bank [sic] or safe, and in committing said act or acts shall use or display any pistol, gun or other firearms or deadly weapon of any character in so doing; upon conviction such person or persons shall be sentenced to death or life imprisonment in the discretion of the jury
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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.