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Kansas

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Kansas. It supports research on the state’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from the territorial period (Bleeding Kansas) through statehood to the present.

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    1933 Kan. Sess. Laws 76 (Spec. Sess.)
    (1933)
    Ch. 62, §§ 1-3: Prohibited possession of a machine rifle, machine gun, or submachine gun.
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    1881 Kan. Sess. Laws 79, 92
    (1881)
    §§1, 23: Mandated that the Council shall prohibit and punish the carrying of firearms, other dangerous and deadly weapons.
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    1915 Kan. Sess. Laws 347
    (1915)
    An Act providing for Public Safety by Regulating the Storage Handling and Disposition of Dynamite, Giant Powder, Nitro-glycerine, Gun Cotton and Other Detonating Explosives, Providing Penalties for Violation of this Act and Repealing all Acts in Conflict Herewith, § 1: Any person, firm or corporation, in this state, who shall sell, give away or otherwise dispose of, any dynamite, giant powder, nitro-glycerine, gun cotton or other detonating explosive, shall keep a record, in a substantially bound book, which record shall set forth the kind and amount of explosives delivered, the time of delivery, the uses and purposes for which same are delivered and the place at which it is to be used
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    Ordinance No. 76: An Ordinance Prohibiting Deadly Weapons, July 1, 1887, reprinted in Stockton Review and Rooks County Record 1, July 1, 1887
    (1887)
    Prohibited carry of any deadly or dangerous weapons. Also prohibited carry into any church, place of public worship, school, educational center, electional location, court, or public assemblage. Includes having on or about his person any kind of fire arms, bowie knife, dirk, dagger, sling shot, or other deadly weapon. Includes prohibition of brandishing in a rude, angry, or threatening manner. Punished by a fine of ten to fifty dollars.
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    1883 Kan. Sess. Laws 159
    (1883)
    Ch. 105, §§ 1-2: Prohibited the selling, trading, giving, or loaning of a pistol, revolver, or toy pistol, dirk, Bowie knife, brass knuckles, slungshot, or other dangerous weapons to any minor, or to any person of notoriously unsound mind. Also prohibited the possession of such weapons by any minor. Punishable by fine of $5-100. Also prohibited a minor from possessing a pistol, revolver, toy pistol by which cartridges may be exploded, dirk, Bowie knife, brass knuckles, slungshot, or other dangerous weapon. Punishable by fine of $1-10.
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    1921 Kan. Sess. Laws 293-94
    (1921)
    § 4. . . . No person shall use ferrets or employ any smoke gun or other device for forcing smoke or any asphyxiating or deadly gas or liquid into the holes, dens, runways or houses of any fur bearing animals . . . . § 6. . . . [N]o bird be pursued with or shot or killed from a motor boat, or an aeroplane, or with a gun larger than ten gauge
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    1903 Kan. Sess. Laws 548
    (1903)
    Relating to the Organization, Government, etc., of the State Militia, Ch. 359, § 3: No armed military force from another state or territory shall be permitted to enter the state without his permission, unless such military force is a part of the United States army or is acting under the authority of the United States. No independent military organization, except it is [sic] a corps of cadets at an educational institution, shall be permitted to bear arms without first securing permission from the commander-in-chief.
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    1911 Kan. Sess. Laws 249-50
    (1911)
    An Act Defining the Crime of Burglary With Explosives, and Providing the Punishment Therefor, §§ 1 and 2: That any person who (with intent to commit crime) breaks and enters, either by day or by night, any building, whether inhabited or not, and opens or attempts to open any vault, safe or other place by use of nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gunpowder or any other explosive, shall be deemed guilty of burglary with explosives
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    1901 Kan. Gen. Stat. 1003, 1141
    (1901)
    Ch. 19, Art. 3, §§ 748: The council may prohibit and punish the carrying of fire arms or other deadly weapons, concealed or otherwise, and may arrest and imprison, fine or set at work all vagrants and persons found in said city without visible means of support, or some legitimate business