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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.

  • Legal sources: statutes and session laws, administrative code, attorney general opinions, appellate decisions, and select municipal ordinances.
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Jurisdiction: search.filters.coverage.IowaStart date: 1900

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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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    1927 Iowa Acts 201
    (1927)
    §§ 1- 2: Prohibited possession of a machine gun.
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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."