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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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  • Item type:Item,
    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.
  • Item type:Item,
    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.
  • Item type:Item,
    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.
  • Item type:Item,
    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.