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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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    Bruce L. Keenan, Book of Ordinances of the City of Wichita 45 (1900)
    (1899)
    § 1: That any person, not an officer of the law in the execution of his duty, who shall in the city of Wichita, draw a pistol, revolver, knife, or any other deadly weapon upon another person shall upon conviction, be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars.
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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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    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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    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.
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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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    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