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California

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to California. It supports research on the state’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from the Spanish and Mexican periods through statehood to the present.

  • Legal sources: statutes and session laws, administrative code, attorney general opinions, appellate decisions, and select municipal ordinances.
  • Historical materials: newspapers, photographs, maps, catalogs, defense and aerospace industry records, law-enforcement and sporting archives, and oral histories tied to California 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,
    Ordinance No. 51: To Prevent the Carrying of Deadly Weapons, in The Santa Barbara Daily Press, June 2, 1876, at 1
    (1876)
    Allowing the mayor to issue a license to carry a concealed weapon to "to any peaceable person whose profession or occupation may require him to be out at late hours of the night."
  • Item type:Item,
    Ordinance No. 84, in R.M. Clarken, Charter and Ordinances of the City of Sacramento 173 (1896)
    (1876)
    Prohibited the concealed carry of a pistol, dirk, or other dangerous or deadly weapon without a license.
  • Item type:Item,
    New Advertisements, in Los Angeles Tri-Weekly News, July 22, 1865, at 2
    (1865)
    named Ordinance, §§ 1-3, & Unnamed Revised Ordinance, Article 5, § 2. Passed July 17, 1856. Volume 13, Number 12: Prohibited the concealed carry any dirk, pistol, sword-cane, slung-shot, or other dangerous or deadly weapons. Violators fined not more than one hundred dollars and imprisonment at the discretion of the mayor, not exceeding ten days. Also prohibited discharge any pistol, gun, rifle, other description of firearms, or air gun. Violators fined five dollars for the first offense, ten dollars for the second offense, and the third offense not more than fifty dollars, and imprisonment at the discretion of the mayor not exceeding ten days.
  • Item type:Item,
    Charter and Revised Ordinances of the City of Eureka 251 (1905)
    (1878)
    Penal Ordinances, Ordinance No. 55- Prohibiting the Carrying of Concealed Weapons, §§ 1-4: Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, dirk, or dangerous or deadly weapon. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding ten days, or both.
  • Item type:Item,
    Theodore H. Hittell, The General Laws of the State of California, from 1850 to 1864, Inclusive 261 (1872)
    (1864)
    § 1585 [§1]: Prohibited the concealed carrying of any dirk, pistol, sword cane, slungshot, or "other dangerous or deadly weapon." Exempted any peace officer or officer acting under the law of the United States. Punishable by imprisonment for 30-90 days or fine of $20-200.
  • Item type:Item,
    1863 Cal. Stat. 748
    (1863)
    Prohibited the concealed carry of any dirk, pistol, sword in a cane, slung-shot, or other dangerous or deadly weapon, concealed. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, imprisoned not less than thirty nor more than ninety days, or fined not less than twenty nor more than two hundred dollars.
  • Item type:Item,
    1864 Cal. Stat. 115
    (1864)
    Prohibited the concealed carrying of any dirk, pistol, sword cane, slungshot, or "other dangerous or deadly weapon." Exempted any peace officer or officer acting under the law of the United States. Punishable by imprisonment for 30-90 days or fine of $20-200.