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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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Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, Ordinances: City of Des Moines, Weapons; Concealed, § 209, in H.W. Byers et al., Revised Ordinances of the City of Des Moines 1916, at 325 (1916)(1900Sec. 496. Weapons; Concealed. It shall be unlawful for any person to carry under his clothes or concealed about his person, or found in his possession, any pistol or other firearms, slungshot, brass knuckles, or knuckles of lead, brass or other metal or material, or any sand bag, air guns of any description, dagger, bowie knife, dirk knife, or other knife or instrument for cutting, stabbing or striking, or other dangerous or deadly weapon, instrument or device. Provided, that this section shall not be construed to prohibit any officer of the United States or of any state, or any peace officer from wearing or carrying such weapons as may be convenient, necessary and proper for the discharge of his official duties. (Ord. 349, § 57; Rev. Ord. 1889, ch. 16; Rev. Ord. 1900, § 209.) Sec. 497. Firearms; Discharge in City. No person shall fire or discharge any cannon, gun, fowling piece, pistol, toy pistol, throwing projectiles of any kind or character, or have in his possession any toy pistol, or firearms of any description, within the settled portion of the City, without permission from the Mayor or City Council, and such permission shall limit the time and place of such firing and may be revoked by the Mayor or City Council. (Ord. 349, § 58; Rev. Ord. 1889, ch. 16; Rev. Ord. 1900, § 210.) Sec. 498. Slungshot; Throwing Stones. No person shall have in his possession or use any sling or slungshot of any kind, nor shall any person wilfully or carelessly throw any stone, stick or other substance in such a manner as to hit, injure or endanger any person, window or other property. (Ord. 349, § 59; Rev. Ord. 1889, ch. 16; Rev. Ord. 1900, § 211.))Ordinances City of Des Moines, Weapons, Concealed, § 209: Prohibited the carrying of a concealed pistol or other 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, dirk knife, or other knife or instrument for cutting, stabbing or striking, or other dangerous or deadly weapon.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, 1929 Iowa Acts 90, § 30(1929)Carrying Firearms in Motor Vehicles, § 30: Prohibited carry of a gun or any firearms in or on a motor vehicle.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 1909 Iowa Acts 258(1909)Ordinances Legalized, § 1, Ordinance No. 29: Legalized ordinances in the town of Callender due the mayor not being a U.S. citizen. Ordinance 29 prohibited the discharge of missiles from air guns and other weapons in the corporate limits of Callender.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, 1933 Iowa Acts 47-48(1933)Ch. 30, § 24: Prohibited the use of a swivel gun or any other firearm, except those commonly shot from the shoulder or hand in hunting of game. Guns larger than a 10 gauge prohibited.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. 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.Item type:Item, Item type:Item, 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 permissionItem 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.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 1917 Iowa Acts 185(1917)An Act . . . relating to burglary with explosives and to enact a substitute therefor, relating to burglary with explosives and electric burning, and gun, § 1: Enhanced the sentence of any person who breaks and enters any dwelling and opens a vault, safe, or other secure place by use of nitro-glycerine, dynamite, giant powder, gunpowder, or any other explosive material.Item type:Item, 1913 Iowa Acts 307(1913)Ch. 297, §§ 1, 2: Prohibited the carrying of a concealed dirk, dagger, sword, pistol, revolver, stiletto, metallic knuckles, picket billy, sandbag, skull cracker, slungshot, or other offensive and dangerous weapons or instruments. Also prohibited the selling, keeping for sale, offering for sale, loaning, or giving away any dirk, dagger, stiletto, metallic knuckles, sandbag, or "skull cracker." Exempted the selling or keeping for sale of "hunting and fishing knives."Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.