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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.

  • Legal sources: statutes and session laws, administrative regulations, attorney general opinions, appellate decisions, and select municipal ordinances.
  • Historical materials: newspapers, photographs, maps, catalogs, frontier militia and fort records (e.g., supply and ordnance), railroad and cattle-trail archives, and oral histories tied to Kansas people and places.
  • Research outputs: technical reports, academic studies, training manuals, and curated datasets relevant to the state.

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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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    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 conviction
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    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.
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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