FRC Jurisdictions Portal

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This top community organizes Firearms Research Center holdings by jurisdiction. It provides separate collections for U.S. states, territories, the District of Columbia, and the federal jurisdiction, spanning the territorial period to the present.

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Legal sources: statutes and session laws, administrative code, attorney general opinions, appellate decisions, and selected municipal ordinances.
Historical materials: newspapers, photographs, maps, catalogs, company records, and oral histories tied to specific places and periods.
Research outputs: FRC reports, datasets, and interpretive materials that contextualize legal and technical developments.

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Browse: open a jurisdiction collection to view items for that state, territory, DC, or the federal jurisdiction.
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Items are described using Dublin Core with standardized fields for Jurisdiction, Date Issued, Category, and Exceptions to support precise discovery and comparison.

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Mason Brayman, Revised Statutes of the State of Illinois 176 (1845)
(1845)
Criminal Jurisprudence, § 139: Prohibited the carrying of "any pistol, gun, knife, dirk, bludgeon or other offensive weapon, with intent to assault any person. Punishable by fine up to $100 or imprisonment up to 3 months.
1917 Ill. Laws 341
(1917)
An Act to Define and Provide a Punishment for the Crime of Burglary with Explosives, § 1: Enhanced the sentence of anyone who breaks and enters into a building with the purpose of committing any crime and uses nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gunpowder, or any other explosive. Violators deemed guilty of burglary with explosives and shall be imprisoned not less than five nor more than twenty years.
1885 Ill. Rev. Stat. 192
(1885)
An Act to Protect Cemeteries and to Provide for their Regulation and Management, § 1: That any person who shall willfully destroy, mutilate or injure any tomb, monument, stone, vault, tree, shrub or ornament, or any object whatever, in any cemetery, or in any avenue, lot or part thereof, or shall hunt, shoot or discharge any gun, pistol or other missile, with the limits of any cemetery, or shall cause any shot or missile to be discharged into or over any portion thereof, or shall violate any of the rules made and established by the board of directors of such cemetery§
1901 Ill. Laws 213
(1901)
Protection of Game, § 1: Prohibited shoot, kill, destroy, or shoot at any wild goose, brant, or other water fowl with a swivel gun.
1893 Ill. Laws 477-78
(1893)
§ 54a: Prohibited the possession, selling, giving, loaning, hiring, bartering, any slung-shot or metallic knuckles, or other deadly weapon of like character. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, fined not less than ten but no more than two hundred dollars.
1885 Ill. Stat. Ann. 771, § 4
(1885)
Concealed Weapon - Flourishing weapon, ch. 38, § 4: Whoever shall carry a concealed weapon upon or about his person of the character in this Act specified, or razor as a weapon, or whoever, in a threatening or boisterous manner, shall display or flourish any deadly weapon, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined in any sum not less than twenty-five dollars ($25) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200).
1885 Ill. Laws 57
(1885)
An Act to Protect Cemeteries and to Provide for their Regulation and Management, § 1: Prohibited destroying, mutilating, or injuring any tomb, monument, stone, vault, tree, shrub, or ornament, or any object whatsoever in any cemetary. Also prohibited hunting, shooting, or discharging any gun, pistol, or other missile within any cemetary limits.
1931 Ill. Laws 452-54
(1931)
An Act to Regulate the Sale, Possession and Transportation of Machine Guns, § 4: Required every manufacturer or merchant to keep a register of all machine guns manufactured or handled. Data kept includes the sale, loan, gift, delivery, or receipt of any machine gun, the name, address, and occupation of the person to whom the machine gun was delivered, from whom it was received, and why it was sold, loaned, given, delivered, purchased, or obtained said machine gun. Law enforcement shall have on-demand access to these records.
1908 Ill. Laws 40-41
(1908)
Regulate Storage of Combustibles—Fireworks, §1334, pt. 65: Amended the powers granted to cities with a population of one hundred thousand or more to regulate and prevent the storage of gunpowder, tar, pitch, resin, coal oil, benzine, turpentine, hemp, cotton, nitro-glycerine, petroleum, or other combustible or explosive material.
1885 Ill. Rev. Stat. 771
(1885)
Criminal Code Ch. 38, para. 90: Required all dealers to keep a registration of all deadly weapons sold or given away, including any slung-shot, metallic knuckles, pistol, revolver, derringer, Bowie knife, dirk, or other deadly weapon.
278 Samuel Irwin, Reports of Cases At Law And In Chancery 566 (1917)
(1917)
Court issued opinion reciting chapter 54 of the Chicago code of 1911, where an ordinance granted the general superintendent of the police the authority to refuse a license to those not considered "the People" of the time, namely persons having been convicted of a crime and minors. The licenses concerned buying, selling, or otherwise transferring pistols, revolvers, derringers, Bowie-knives, dirk, other weapons of like character.
1882 Ill. Rev. Stat. 375
(1881)
§ 54(b): Prohibited selling, giving, loaning, hiring , bartering, or offering for sale any pistol, revolver, derringer, Bowie knife, dirk, or other deadly weapon to minors. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, fined not less than twenty-five but no more than two hundred dollars.
1881 Ill. Laws 71
(1881)
Prohibited selling, giving, loaning, hiring for barter any minor a pistol, revolver, derringer, Bowie knife, dirk or other deadly weapon. Punishable by fine of $25-200.
1856 Ill. Comp. Stat. 365
(1855)
Offenses Against the Persons of Individuals, Div. V, § 43: Prohibited dueling or agreeing to duel or single combat with any engine, instrument, or weapon where the probably consequence might be the death of either party, and shall kill his antagonist, or shall inflict a wound where the party shall die within one year. Each violator, his second, the second of the person killed, all aiders, abettors, and counselors convicted shall be punished under a high misdemeanor, punished by a prison term not less than one nor more than five years.
An Ordinance Relating to Misdemeanors, § 41-2, in The Act of Incorporation and Ordinances of the City of Bunker Hill, Illinois 66 (1873).
(1873)
Any person or persons who shall, within said city, draw on any person or persons, to the terror or danger of such person or persons, any knife, bowie knife, pistol, revolver, slung shot, or any other dangerous weapon, shall forfeit and pay the sum of not less than twenty-five dollars.
1879 Ill. Laws 156-57
(1879)
Article XI General Provisions, § 5 Other Organizations Prohibited: Prohibited any body of men to organize as a military company or organization, or to drill or parade with arms in any city, or town.
An Ordinance Relating to Misdemeanors, § 21, in The Act of Incorporation and Ordinances of the City of Bunker Hill, Illinois 66 (1873).
(1873)
Whoever shall, in any part of the city, fire or discharge any cannon, gun, pistol or other firearms, or shall set off, fire or explode any torpedo, fire cracker, fire ball, rocket or other fire works, whatever, or shall make or kindle any bonfire shall forfeit and pay the sum of not less than one dollar for each offense
1880 Ill. Rev. Stat. 365
(1879)
Ch. 38 § 56: Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, knife, slungshot, knuckles of brass, steel, iron, or other deadly weapons. Also prohibited brandishing said weapons. Violators fined not exceeding one hundred dollars.
1874 Ill. Rev. Stat. 360
(1874)
Ch. 38, § 56: Prohibited the carrying a concealed or threatening display of any weapon, including a pistol, knife, slungshot, brass, steel, or iron knuckles, or other deadly weapon while disturbing the peace. Punishable by fine up to $100.
1883 Ill. Rev. Stat. 453
(1879)
§ 56: Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, knife, slungshot, knuckles of brass, steel, iron, or other deadly weapons. Also prohibited brandishing said weapons. Violators fined not exceeding one hundred dollars.

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