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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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Start date: 1892End date: 1899

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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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    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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    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.