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.
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1925 Wyo. Sess. Laws 110
(1925)
Every person not being a citizen of the United States, who shall own, possess, wear or carry any dirk, pistol, shot gun, rifle, or other fire arm, bowie knife, dagger, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon, shall upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined in any sum not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) or imprisoned in the county jail not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
1883 Wis. Sess. Laws 290
(1883)
It shall be unlawful for any minor, within this state, to go armed with any pistol or revolver, and it shall be the duty of all sheriffs, constables, or other public police officers, to take from any minor, any pistol or revolver, found in his possession. It shall be unlawful for any dealer in pistols or revolvers, or any other person, to sell, loan, or give any pistol or revolver to any minor in this state. It shall be unlawful for any person in a state of intoxication, to go armed with any pistol or revolver. Any person violating the provisions of this act, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100).
Wis. Rev. Stat. Supp. 848, ch. 181, §4397b(3) (1883)
(1883)
It shall be unlawful for any person in a state of intoxication to go armed with any pistol or revolver. Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.
Wis. Stat. Ann. 2226, §§ 4397-4397b (1889)
(1889)
Prohibited carrying concealed dangerous weapons, carrying pistols or revolvers by minors or intoxicated persons, and selling, lending, or giving pistols or revolvers to minors. It also prohibited the sale or use of toy firearms. Violations generally carried up to six months’ imprisonment, a fine up to $100, or both.
1878 Vt. Acts & Resolves 30
(1878)
No. 14, § 3: Any tramp, who shall enter or attempt to enter any dwelling-house or premises against the will of the owner or occupant thereof, or having entered any house or premises, shall persist in remaining therein against the will of the owner or occupant thereof, or shall kindle any fire in any outbuilding, school-house, or any other public or unoccupied building, or on the land of any person, or in the public highway adjoining the lands of such person between the first days of May and the first days of December in each year, without the consent of the owner or occupant thereof, or shall be found carrying any firearm or other dangerous weapon, or who shall threaten to injure any person or the property of any person, real or personal, shall be punished by imprisonment at hard labor in the state prison, or state work-house, for a term not exceeding two years, or by a fine payable to the treasurer of the State not exceeding one hundred dollars, together with the costs of prosecution.
1880 R.I. Pub. Laws 110
(1880)
Ch. 806, § 3: Any tramp who shall willfully[1] and maliciously injure any person where such offence is not now punishable by imprisonment in the state prison, or who shall be found carrying any firearm or other dangerous weapon, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison not more than three years.
Statutes of the State of Rhode Island Relating to the City of Providence 432 (1875)
(1874)
Ch. 5, § 105: He may also arrest without a warrant any person reasonably suspected of having committed a felony, or seen committing a breach of the peace, or being unduly armed with a dangerous weapon, and also night-walkers.
1879 Gen. and Local Laws of the State of Ohio 191-92, An Act to define and suppress tramps, § 2 (vol. 76)
(1879)
That any tramp who shall enter any dwelling-house, or shall enter the yard or enclosure about any dwelling-house, against the will or without the permission of the owner or occupant thereof, or shall not, when requested, immediately leave such place, or shall be found carrying any fire-arms or other dangerous weapons, or shall do or threaten to do any injury to any person, or shall do or threaten to do any injury to the real or personal estate or property of another, shall, upon conviction thereof, be imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than one year nor more than three years.
1879 N.C. Sess. Laws 355-56
(1879)
Ch. 198, §§ 1-7: Any tramp who shall enter any dwelling house or kindle any fire on the highway or on the land of another without the consent of the owner or occupant thereof, or shall be found carrying any firearms or other dangerous weapon, or shall threaten to do any injury to any person or to the real or personal estate of another, shall be punished by imprisonment at the discretion of the court, not to exceed twelve months.
E.B. O'Callaghan, Laws and Ordinances of New Netherland, 1638-1674, at 234-35 (1868); N.Y. Col. MSS, VIII 56
(1656)
Prohibited admission of "any Indians" in possession of a gun or other weapon into Fort Amsterdam or in the Flatland.
Joplin, Mo., Code art. 67, § 1201 (1917)
(1917)
Prohibited the carrying of a concealed firearm, Bowie knife, spring-back knife, razor, knuckles, bill, sword cane, dirk, dagger, slungshot, or other similar deadly weapons in a church, school, election site, court, or other public setting. Also prohibits using the weapon in a threatening manner, using while intoxicated, or selling to a minor.
The Revised Ordinances of the City of Huntsville, Missouri, of 1984, at 58-59 (1894)
(1894)
Prohibited the concealed carry of any deadly or dangerous weapon or any kind of fire-arms, Bowie-knife, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, or other deadly weapon into any church, or place where people have assembled for religious worship, or into any school room or place where people are assembled for educational, literary, or social purposes, or to any election precinct on election day, into any court-room during the sitting of court, or into any other public assemblage. Also prohibited the brandishing of any above weapons, or carrying above weapon while intoxicated.
J.H. Johnston, Revised Charter and Ordinances of the City of Boonville, Missouri 91 (1881)
(1881)
No. 17, art. 1, § 6: Prohibited concealed carry of any pistol, revolver, dirk, dagger, slungshot, metallic knuckles, or other deadly or dangerous weapon or exhibit in a rude, angry, or threatening manner, or carry any such weapon while intoxicated. . Violators fined not less than five but no more than ninety dollars.
Mo. Rev. Stat. 224, ch. 24, art. 2, §§ 1274-1278 (1879)
(1879)
If any person shall carry concealed, upon or about his person, any deadly or dangerous weapon, or shall go into any church or place where people have assembled for religious worship, or into any school room or place where people are assembled for educational, literary or social purposes, or to any election precinct, on any election day, or into any court room during the sitting of court, or into any other public assemblage of persons met for any lawful purpose, other than for militia drill or meetings called under the militia law of this state, having upon or about his person any kind of firearms, bowie-knife, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, or other deadly weapon, or shall, in the presence of one or more persons, exhibit any such weapon in a rude, angry or threatening manner, or shall have or carry any such weapon upon or about his person when intoxicated or under the influence of intoxicating drinks, or shall, directly or indirectly, sell or deliver, loan or barter to any minor, any such weapon, without the consent of the parent or guardian of such minor, he shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding three months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. (Laws 1874, p. 43; laws 1875, p. 50, and laws 1877, p. 240,.amended.)
1880 Me. Laws 212-213
(1880)
An Act to Punish Tramps, ch. 213, §§ 1-2: Any tramp who shall enter any dwelling house, or kindle any fire in the highway or on the land of another, without the consent of the owner or occupant thereof, or shall be found carrying any fire-arm or other dangerous weapon, or shall threaten to do any injury to any person, or to the real or personal estate of another, shall be punished by imprisonment at hard labor in the state prison not more than two years."
1852 Del. Rev. Stat. 333
(1852)
§ 13: Authorized the justices of the peace to arrest and bind to surety all affrayers, breakers and disturbers of the peace, and all who go armed offensively to the terror of the people, or are otherwise disorderly and dangerous. Note as of 10/26: Duke left out a significant, material portion of this law. Affrayers, breakers and disturbers of the peace was not included on Duke's page.

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