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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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    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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    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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    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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    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 . . . .