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Iowa

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

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    1929 Iowa Acts 90, § 30
    (1929)
    Carrying Firearms in Motor Vehicles, § 30: Prohibited carry of a gun or any firearms in or on a motor vehicle.
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    1933 Iowa Acts 47-48
    (1933)
    Ch. 30, § 24: Prohibited the use of a swivel gun or any other firearm, except those commonly shot from the shoulder or hand in hunting of game. Guns larger than a 10 gauge prohibited.
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    1897 Iowa Code Ann. 1955
    (1897)
    § 5004: Prohibited selling, presenting, or giving, any pistol, revolver, or toy pistol to any minor. Violators fined not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less than ten nor more than thirty days in jail.
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    1927 Iowa Acts 201
    (1927)
    §§ 1- 2: Prohibited possession of a machine gun.
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    1894 Iowa Acts 70
    (1894)
    An Act to Restrain Hunters from Trespassing Upon Cultivated or Enclosed Lands Without Permission and Providing Penalties Therefor, ch. 64, § 1: Prohibited hunting with a gun or dog on the lands of another without obtaining the owner's permission
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    1897 Iowa Code Ann. 1898
    (1897)
    § 4775: Prohibited concealed carry and brandishing of pistols, revolvers, guns at another. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not more than one hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail not more than thirty days.
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    1896 Iowa Acts 104
    (1896)
    Chapter 102-An Act to Revise, Amend, and Codify the Statutes Relative to the Militia, § 22: Prohibited trespassing on encampment grounds. Also prohibited the sale of any malt, spirits, or other intoxicating liquors within one mile of such grounds. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor. The commanding officer of such force may arrest violators.
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    1907 Iowa Acts 81
    (1907)
    Ch. 76, § V(e) : Prohibited keeping benzine, benzole, dynamite, ether, fireworks, gasoline, Greek fire, gunpowder in excess of twenty-five pounds, other explosive, phosphorous, calcium carbide, petroleum, or any of its products of greater inflammability.
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    1917 Iowa Acts 185
    (1917)
    An Act . . . relating to burglary with explosives and to enact a substitute therefor, relating to burglary with explosives and electric burning, and gun, § 1: Enhanced the sentence of any person who breaks and enters any dwelling and opens a vault, safe, or other secure place by use of nitro-glycerine, dynamite, giant powder, gunpowder, or any other explosive material.
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    1913 Iowa Acts 307
    (1913)
    Ch. 297, §§ 1, 2: Prohibited the carrying of a concealed dirk, dagger, sword, pistol, revolver, stiletto, metallic knuckles, picket billy, sandbag, skull cracker, slungshot, or other offensive and dangerous weapons or instruments. Also prohibited the selling, keeping for sale, offering for sale, loaning, or giving away any dirk, dagger, stiletto, metallic knuckles, sandbag, or "skull cracker." Exempted the selling or keeping for sale of "hunting and fishing knives."
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    1884 Iowa Acts 86
    (1884)
    §§ 1-3: Prohibited the sale, present, or giving of any pistol, revolver, or toy pistol to any minor. Violators fined not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars or imprisonment not less than ten nor more than thirty days.
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    1 William E. Miller, Revised and Annotated Code of Iowa 265 (1880)
    (1880)
    Title 8, Ch. 1, § 36 Unlawful for Other than Regularly Organized Militia to Organize: Prohibited any body of men, other than the regularly organized volunteer militia and federal troops, from associating as a military company or to drill or parade.
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    Emlin A. McClain, Supplement to McClain's Annotated Code and Statutes of the State of Iowa 306 (1892)
    (1892)
    § 5402g: No person shall place in any of the waters of the state any lime, ashes, drug, or medicated bait or shoot any gun or use any dynamite, gun cotton, giant powder or other explosive or any electrical machine or device with the intent thereby to kill, injure, poison, stupefy or catch fish.