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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.
  • Historical materials: newspapers, photographs, maps, catalogs, agricultural, railroad, and manufacturing records, and oral histories tied to Iowa people and places.
  • Research outputs: technical reports, academic studies, training manuals, and curated datasets relevant to the state.

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    Geoffrey Andrew Holmes, Compiled Ordinances of the City of Council Bluffs 168-169 (1887)
    (1887)
    §§ 5-6: Prohibited operating a pistol gallery or shooting gallery without a license. Licenses shall cost ten dollars per month or fifty dollars per year. Minors are prohibited at the ranges.
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    The Code: Containing All the Statutes of the State of Iowa 76-77 (1873)
    (1873)
    § 453: Cities and towns shall have the authority to prevent injury and annoyances from transportation and keeping of gunpowder and other combustibles, and licensing of powder magazines.
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    S.J. Quincy, Revised Ordinances of the City of Sioux City, Iowa 62 (1882)
    (1882)
    Public Safety, § 4: Prohibited the carrying a concealed pistol, revolver, slungshot, cross-knuckles, knuckles of lead, brass or other metal, or any Bowie knife, razor, billy, dirk, dirk knife or Bowie knife, or other dangerous weapon.
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    A.S. Hazelton & Frank J. Capell, Compiled Ordinances of the City of Council Bluffs Iowa 203-04 (1920)
    (1887)
    § 75: Prohibited the carrying of a concealed pistol or firearms, slungshot, brass knuckles, or knuckles of lead, brass or other metal or material , or any sandbag, air guns of any description, dagger, Bowie knife, or instrument for cutting, stabbing or striking, or other dangerous or deadly weapon, instrument or device.
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    Geoffrey Andrew Holmes, Compiled Ordinances of the City of Council Bluffs 206-07 (1887)
    (1887)
    Carrying Concealed Weapons Prohibited, § 105: Prohibited the carrying of a concealed pistol or firearms, slungshot, brass knuckles, or knuckles of lead, brass or other metal or material , or any sandbag, air guns of any description, dagger, Bowie knife, or instrument for cutting, stabbing or striking, or other dangerous or deadly weapon, instrument or device.
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    E.E. Aylesworth, Compiled Ordinances of the City of Council Bluffs 175 (1880)
    (1880)
    § 16: Prohibited discharge of any cannon, gun, pistol, or other firearms across any street or public place without a permit from the mayor. Violators fined not less than three nor more than thirty dollars.
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    1876 Iowa Acts 142
    (1876)
    An Act to Diminish Liability to Railroad Accidents and to Punish Interference with, and Injury to the Property of Railroad Companies, chap. 148, § 1: Prohibited throwing stones, or other substance, or discharging any gun, pistol, or other firearm at any railroad train, car, or locomotive engine. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor.
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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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    1878 Iowa Acts 108
    (1878)
    Military Code of Iowa, chap. 125, § 1: Included all able-bodied male citizens between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years as party of the militia
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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.