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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.
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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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    E.M. Sharon, Revised Ordinances of the City of Davenport 165 (1893)
    (1893)
    § 37: Prohibited selling or keeping for sale, any toy pistol or toy gun which uses fulminating or explosive caps, cartridges, or other explosive substances. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor.
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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.