Colorado
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This collection serves as a dedicated repository for academic research, historical documentation, and case studies related to Colorado. It focuses on the historical evolution, cultural developments, and legal frameworks within the state of Colorado. This collection offers valuable resources for scholars, researchers, and individuals interested in the rich heritage and historical significance of Colorado.
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Item Open Access 1862 Colo. Sess. Laws 56, § 1 [Concealed weapons](General Publisher, 1862)Prohibited the concealed carrying in any city, town, or village any pistol, Bowie knife, dagger, or other deadly weapon. Punished by fine of $5-35.Item Open Access 1867 Colo. Sess. Laws 229, § 149(General Publisher, 1867)Prohibited the concealed carrying of any pistol, Bowie knife, dagger, or other deadly weapon within any city, town, or village in the territory. Punishable by fine of $5-35. Exempted sheriffs, constables, and police officers when performing their official duties.Item Open Access 1876 Colo. Sess. Laws 304, § 154(General Publisher, 1876)Prohibited the carrying with intent to assault another any pistol, gun, knife, dirk, bludgeon, or other offensive weapon.Item Open Access 1881 Colo. Rev. Stat. p. 229 § 149(General Publisher, 1881)Prohibited the concealed carrying of any firearms, any pistol, Bowie knife, dagger, or other deadly weapon.Item Open Access 1881 Colo. Sess. Laws 74, § 1(General Publisher, 1881)Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, Bowie-knife, dagger, or other deadly weapon. Violators punished by jail term no less than ten but not more than thirty days and fined not less than fifty but no more than one hundred dollars.Item Open Access 1891 Colo. Sess. Laws 129(General Publisher, 1891)Prohibited carrying concealed any pistol, revolver, derringer, bowie-knife, razor, dagger, sling-shot, or other deadly weapon in any city, town, or village. Violators punished by imprisonment of thirty days, or by fine not more than fifty dollars with costs, or both.Item Open Access 1907 Colo. Rev. Stat. 522, Offenses Against Habitations and Other Buildings, § 69(General Publisher, 1907)Prohibited the use of nitroglycerine, dynamite, gunpowder, or any other explosive while breaking and entering any building. Violators shall be imprisoned not less than twenty-five nor more than fourty years.Item Open Access 1907 Colo. Sess. Laws 419, Game—Fish, § 10(General Publisher, 1907)Prohibited pursuing, taking, wounding, or unlawfully killing any game in the night, or with steel or hard-pointed bullet, nor with any weapon other than a shoulder-fired gun or pistol.Item Open Access 1911 Colo. Sess. Laws 408(General Publisher, 1911)Required the record registration of every retail sale, rental, exchange of firearms, pistols, or revolvers. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than twenty-five, nor more than one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both.Item Open Access 1913 Colo. Sess. Laws 156, To Amend . . . the Revised Statutes of Colorado for 1908, Concerning Powers of Incorporated Towns and Cities, ch. 53, §1(General Publisher, 1913)Granted the city council or the board of trustees in towns the power to regulate or prevent the storage or transportation of gunpowder, tar, pitch, or any other combustible or explosive materials within the corporate limits.Item Open Access 1919 Colo. Sess. Laws 416 - 17, Foreign-Born Unnaturalized Citizens, § 1(General Publisher, 1919)Prohibited noncitizens from owning or possessing any shotgun, rifle, pistol or firearm of any kind; violators subject to fine, imprisonment, confiscation of weapon.Item Open Access 1931 Colo. Sess. Laws 399, To Prohibit the Use of Aircraft to Hunt, Take, Pursue . . . Water Fowl . . . To Prohibit the Discharge of Firearms Therefrom . . ., ch. 97, § 2(General Publisher, 1931)Prohibited the discharge of any gun, rifle, pistol, shot gun, or other firearm from any aircraft, airplane, airship while the same is in motion, with the intent or purpose to take, capture, kill, or attempt to kill any migratory bird.Item Open Access An Act Concerning the Enrollment and Organization of the Militia of the State, prescribing the District and Number and Rank of the Officers thereof, and Defining the Duties of Such Officers, Article VIII, §23 Unlawful Armed Assemblage (8 Feb. 1879)(General Publisher, 1879)Prohibited any body of men whatsoever, other than the national guard or regularly organized militia, or federal US troops, from associating as a militia or to parade in public with arms. Nor shall any city or town raise or appropriate any money towards arming, equipping, or supporting any such bodies of money.Item Open Access Ch. 17—Fire Arms, Article 1, § 170, FORT COLLINS, CODE 143, 143 (Larimer County Democrat Printing Co. 1917).(General Publisher, 1917)Prohibited That any person who shall within the City of Fort Collins, fire or discharge any cannon, gun, fowling piece, pistol or fire-arm of any description, or fire, explode or set off any squib, cracker or other thing containing powder or other combustible matter or explosive material without permission from the MayorItem Open Access COLO. CONST. OF 1876, art. II, § 13(General Publisher, 1876)That the right of no person to keep and bear arms in defense of his home, person and property, or in aid of the civil power when thereto legally summoned, shall be called in question; but nothing herein contained shall be construed to justify the practice of carrying concealed weapons.Item Open Access Colo. Rev. Stat 1774, § 248 (1881)(General Publisher, 1881)Prohibited the concealed carrying of any firearms, any pistol, revolver, Bowie knife, dagger, slingshot, brass knuckles, or other deadly weapon, unless authorized by chief of police.Item Open Access Edward O. Wolcott, The Ordinances of Georgetown [Colorado] Passed June 7th, A.D. 1877, at 100, § 9(General Publisher, 1877)Prohibited the concealed carrying of any pistol, Bowie knife, dagger, or other deadly weapon. Punishable by a fine of $5-50.Item Open Access Frank Exline, ed., The Code of Colorado Springs: Comprising Article XX of the Constitution of the State of Colorado, the Charter, Amendments Thereto, and General Ordinances of the City of Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1914 (Colorado Springs, CO: the Joslyn Quick Printery, 1914), 273. Chapter 6—Of Public Offenses and Penalties, Article 1—Offenses Concerning the Public Peace, § 501— Carrying Concealed Weapons.(General Publisher, 1914)Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, revolver, Bowie-knife, dirk, or other deadly weapon. Prohibited the display or floush of any deadly weapon in a threatening or boisterous manner.Item Open Access Frank Exline, ed., The Code of Colorado Springs: Comprising Article XX of the Constitution of the State of Colorado, the Charter, Amendments Thereto, and General Ordinances of the City of Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1914 (Colorado Springs, CO: the Joslyn Quick Printery, 1914), 274-275. Chapter 6—Of Public Offenses and Penalties, Article 2—Offenses Affecting the Safety of Persons and Property, §§ 505-509. (Date uncertain; dates possibly range from those provided within brackets appended to certain sections: December 27, 1897 to April 3, 1907).(General Publisher, 1914)Prohibits the discharge of any cannon, gun, pistol, or other firearms or setting off, firing, or exploding any torpedo, firecracker, fireball, rocket, or other fireworks whatsoever.Item Open Access General Ordinances of the City of Aspen, §§ 125, ASPEN DAILY TIMES, Jul. 27, 1886, at 3-6 (Aspen, Colorado).(General Publisher, 1886)No person shall keep at his place of business or elsewhere within this city, a greater quantity of gun powder or gun cotton than fifty pounds at one time, and the same shall be kept in tin or copper canisters containing not to exceed ten pounds in each.