Kansas
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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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Item type:Item, William Stanley, Charter and Ordinances of the City of Leavenworth 42 (1859)(1859)§§ 1-2: Prohibited the carry of concealed weapons. Prohibited any person guilty of carrying a pistol, dirk, bowie-knife, colt, slung-shot, metal knuckles, or any other deadly weapon. Violators fined not less than five, nor more than two hundred dollars.Item type:Item, Bruce L. Keenan, Book of Ordinances of the City of Wichita 46 (1900)(1899)§§ 2-4: Any person who shall in the city of Wichita carry unconcealed, any fire-arms, slungshot, sheath or dirk knife, or any other weapon, which when used is likely to produce death or great bodily harm, shall upon conviction, be fined not less than one dollar nor more than twenty-five dollars. Using or Carrying Bean Snapper, § 3. Any person who shall, in the city of Wichita, use or carry concealed or unconcealed, any bean snapper or like articles shall upon conviction be fined in any sum not less than one dollar nor more than twenty-five dollars. Carrying Concealed Deadly Weapons, § 4. Any person who shall in the city of Wichita, carry concealed about his person any fire-arm, slung shot, sheath or dirk knife, brass knuckles, or any weapon, which when used is likely to produce death or great bodily harm, shall upon conviction, be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars.Item type:Item, Ordinance No. 79: An Ordinance Relating to Crimes and Punishments, in Scandia Journal, Jan. 5, 1894, at 8(1894)§ 11: Every person who shall, within the corporate limits of the city of Scandia, discharge any firearm, rocket, giant powder, fireworks, or any other explosive material without first obtaining a permit from the mayor shall be fined twenty five dollars upon convictionItem type:Item, Revised Ordinances of the City of Salina 99 (1879)(1879)That it shall be unlawful for any person to carry on or about his person any pistol, bowie knife, dirk, or other deadly or dangerous weapon, anywhere within the limits of the city of Salina, save and except as hereinafter provided.Item type:Item, Guy L. Hursch, Revised Ordinances and Rules of the City Council, of the City of Holton 1905, at 130, 134-35, § 18 (1905) (effective Aug. 8, 1888)(1888)No. 169, § 18: It shall be unlawful for any person within this city to carry upon his person a pistol, dirk. bowie knife, or other deadly weapon concealed or otherwise, and any person so doing shall, upon conviction, be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not to exceed three months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.§Provided, however, that this shall not apply to an officer in the discharge of his official duty, nor to a person carrying an unloaded shot-gun or rifle; and§provided§further, that the mayor of this city may, for a good cause shown by any person engaged in any legitimate business, when he deems it necessary for the safety of such person, or his business, give to such person a written permit attested by his signature, and the seal of the city, to carry deadly weapons for his or her defense.Item type:Item, Ordinance no. 66, §§ 1-3, in DODGE CITY TIMES, Aug. 17, 1882, at 5(1876)That any person who shall in the city of Dodge City, carry concealed or otherwise about his or her person, any pistol, bowie knife, slung shot, or other dangerous or deadly weapon, except County, City, or United States officers, shall be fined in a sum not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars.Item type:Item, Ordinance No. 13: An Ordinance in Relation to Offenses Against Public Safety, in CORNING INDEPENDENT, May 16, 1890, at 3.(1890)§ 3: Any person while exercising the right of carrying arms, and any other person, who shall wrongfully draw or threaten to use any arms to do any other act calculated to cause apprehension or alarm among the citizens of said city, shall, upon conviction thereof before the Police Judge, be fined in any sum not less than one dollar nor more than one hundred dollars.Item type:Item, Ordinance no. 1, § 1-8, THE MINING ECHO, Jul. 7, 1877, at 1(1870)§Any person who shall discharge any gun, pistol, or other firearms, within the limits of this city, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, be fined in a sum not less than $5.00 nor more than $20.Item type:Item, An Ordinance Defining Offenses and Providing Punishments for the Same, in DELPHOS CARRIER, Aug. 1, 1884, at 2(1884)§ 19: Any person who shall within the city of Delphos, carry about his or her persons any concealed pistol, dirk, bowie knife, revolver, slung shot, billy, false knuckles or any other deadly weapons, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding fifty dollars. Provided that upon application to the mayor by any person he may grant a permit to carry a pistol...Item type:Item, An Ordinance Relating to the Carrying of Fire Arms and Other Deadly Weapons, in The Abilene Chronicle, May 12, 1870, at 1, § 1-4(1870)§ 1: Prohibited the carry of any pistol, revolver, gun, musket, dirk, Bowie-knife, or other dangerous weapon. Violators fined in a sum not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars. The arms in question shall be seized by the police captain.Item type:Item, An Ordinance Regarding the Carrying of Concealed Weapons and Sale of Deadly Weapons, in The Concordia Weekly Daylight, May 22, 1888, at 7(1888)§§ 1: On and after the passage of this ordinance it shall be unlawful for any person within the city of Concordia to carry upon his or her person any concealed pistol, bowie knife, dirk, sling shot, billy, knuckles, or any other deadly weapon, unless he has a permit to do so.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.