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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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    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.
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    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.
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    Samuel Kimball, Charter, Other Powers, and Ordinances of the City of Lawrence 149 (1866)
    (1863)
    § 10: Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, Bowie-knife, or other deadly weapon. Violators fined not less than one nor more than ten dollars.
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    O. P. Ergenbright, Revised Ordinances of the City of Independence, Kansas 162 (1887)
    (1887)
    § 27: Prohibited using a pistol or other weapon in a hostile or threatening manner. Also prohibited carrying a concealed pistol, dirk, Bowie knife, revolver, slungshot, billy, brass, lead, or iron knuckles, or any deadly weapon. Punishable by fine of $5-100.
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    C. B. Pierce, Charter and Ordinances of the City of Leavenworth 45 (1863)
    (1863)
    An Ordinance Relating to Misdemeanors, § 23: Prohibited the carrying of any concealed "pistol, dirk, bowie knife, revolver, slung shot, billy, brass, lead or iron knuckles, or any other deadly weapon within this city." Punishable by a fine of $3-100.
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    Sam Kimble, Revised Ordinances of the City of Manhattan and Rules of the Council 49-50 (1887)
    (1887)
    Section 12 prohibited carrying concealed weapons such as pistols, Bowie knives, dirks, or other deadly weapons. It also prohibited discharging firearms, fireworks, rockets, or other dangerous combustible materials in public areas, with limited exceptions for killing nuisance animals on one's own property or birds for scientific purposes. Violations were misdemeanors punishable by a $3–$10 fine. Section 13 prohibited giving, selling, lending, or otherwise providing pistols, revolvers, cartridge/cap-firing toy pistols, certain knives, slingshots, or other dangerous weapons to minors or persons described by the ordinance as being of “notoriously unsound mind.” Violations were misdemeanors carrying a $5–$100 fine. Section 14 made it a misdemeanor for a minor to possess pistols, cartridge-firing toy pistols, Bowie knives, dirks, brass knuckles, slung shots, rubber slingshots, or other dangerous weapons. The penalty was a $1–$10 fine.
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    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.
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    Ordinance No. 12: An Ordinance to Suppress Criminal and Improper Practices in the City of Beloit, in BELOIT WEEKLY DEMOCRAT, May 16, 1879, at 4, § 31
    (1879)
    § 31: That any person who shall within said city, carry concealed on or about his or her person, a revolver, pistol, bowie-knife, dirk, slung-shot, brass, lead or iron knuckles, or any other dangerous weapon, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
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    Ordinance No. 201, in COFFEYVILLE WEEKLY JOURNAL, Feb. 7, 1890, at 2
    (1890)
    Any person, other than a peace officer, of the city, or a peace officer of the State of Kansas, or some County, City or Township in the State, who shall be found within the corporate limits of the City of Coffeyville, at any time, having upon his or her person, concealed or otherwise, without first having obtained permission from the Mayor, a revolver, pistol, dirk-knife, bowie-knife, sling shot, metallic knuckles, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than one nor more than fifty dollars, or to be imprisoned in the City Jail not less than one day nor more than ten days, or to both fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the Police Judge.