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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.

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    1845 Iowa Acts 119
    (1845)
    An Act to Incorporate and Establish the City of Dubuque, chap 123, § 12: The city of Dubuque shall have the authority to regulate the storage of gun powder.
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    Chas. Ben. Darwin, Ordinances of the City of Burlington 72-73 (1856)
    (1847)
    §§ 1-4: Prohibited any merchant, trader, or other person to retail or deliver gun powder during the night. Violators fined five dollars. Gun powder limited to twenty-five pounds and only in a "safe canister." Gun powder shall only be kept in dwellings approved by the Council. Violators fined one hundred dollars, with the powder confiscated with cost.
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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.