Kansas

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This collection serves as a dedicated repository for academic research, historical documentation, and case studies related to Kansas. It focuses on the historical evolution, cultural developments, and legal frameworks within the state of Kansas. This collection offers valuable resources for scholars, researchers, and individuals interested in the rich heritage and historical significance of Kansas.

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1 General Statutes of the State of Kansas 378 (1868)
(General Publisher, 1868)
Prohibited possession of a "pistol, bowie-knife, dirk or other deadly weapon" by “[a]ny person who is not engaged in any legitimate business, any person under the influence of intoxicating drink, and any person who has ever borne arms against the government of the United States.”
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1860 Kan. Sess. Laws 137, An Act to Amend and Consolidate the Several Act Relating to the City of Lawrence, § 35, pt. 7
(General Publisher, 1860)
Granted the city of Lawrence the authority to regulate the keeping and conveying of gun powder and other combustible and dangerous materials.
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1860 Kan. Sess. Laws 138, An Act to Amend and Consolidate the Several Acts Relating to the City of Lawrence, § 35, pt. 19
(General Publisher, 1860)
Granted the city of Lawrence the authority to regulate the discharging of firearms, rockets, gunpowder, fireworks within the streets or vicinity of any building.
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1881 Kan. Sess. Laws §§1, 23, pp. 79, 92
(General Publisher, 1881)
Mandated that the Council shall prohibit and punish the carrying of firearms, other dangerous and deadly weapons.
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1883 Kan. Sess. Laws 159, An Act to Prevent Selling, Trading Or Giving Deadly Weapons or Toy Pistols to Minors, and to Provide Punishment Therefor, §§ 1-2
(General Publisher, 1883)
Prohibited the selling, trading, giving, or loaning of a pistol, revolver, or toy pistol, dirk, Bowie knife, brass knuckles, slungshot, or other dangerous weapons to any minor, or to any person of notoriously unsound mind. Also prohibited the possession of such weapons by any minor. Punishable by fine of $5-100. Also prohibited a minor from possessing a pistol, revolver, toy pistol by which cartridges may be exploded, dirk, Bowie knife, brass knuckles, slungshot, or other dangerous weapon. Punishable by fine of $1-10.
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1883 Kan. Sess. Laws 159, ch. 105, §§ 1–2
(General Publisher, 1883)
Prohibited the selling, trading, giving, or loaning of a pistol, revolver, or toy pistol, dirk, Bowie knife, brass knuckles, slungshot, or other dangerous weapons to any minor, or to any person of notoriously unsound mind. Also prohibited the possession of such weapons by any minor. Punishable by fine of $5-100. Also prohibited a minor from possessing a pistol, revolver, toy pistol by which cartridges may be exploded, dirk, Bowie knife, brass knuckles, slungshot, or other dangerous weapon. Punishable by fine of $1-10.
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1911 Kan. Sess. Laws 249–50, An Act Defining the Crime of Burglary With Explosives, and Providing the Punishment Therefor, §§ 1 and 2.
(General Publisher, 1911)
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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1915 Kan. Sess. Laws 347, 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.
(General Publisher, 1915)
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, §§ 4, 6.
(General Publisher, 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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1933 Kan. Sess. Laws 76, ch. 62, §§ 1–3
(General Publisher, 1933)
Prohibited possession of a machine rifle, machine gun, or submachine gun.
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An Ordinance Defining Offenses and Providing Punishments for the Same, DELPHOS CARRIER, Aug. 1, 1884 at 2, § 19 (Delphos, Kansas).
(General Publisher, 1884)
Any person who shall within the city of Delphos, carry about his or her persons any concealed pistol, dirk, bowie knife, revolver, slung shot, billy, false knuckles or any other deadly weapons, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding fifty dollars. Provided that upon application to the mayor by any person he may grant a permit to carry a pistol...
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An Ordinance Regarding the Carrying of Concealed Weapons and Sale of Deadly Weapons, THE CONCORDIA WEEKLY DAYLIGHT, May 22, 1888 at 7, § 1.
(General Publisher, 1888)
On and after the passage of this ordinance it shall be unlawful for any person within the city of Concordia to carry upon his or her person any concealed pistol, bowie knife, dirk, sling shot, billy, knuckles, or any other deadly weapon, unless he has a permit to do so.
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An Ordinance Relating to Guns, Pistols, and Other Weapons, THE PIONEER DEMOCRAT, Jun. 11, 1887 at 2.
(General Publisher, 1887)
That is shall be unlawful for any person or persons to come inside the corporate limits of this city with any gun, pistol, or weapon of any kind on his person or in his possession or charge. Provided, however, that the marshal or his deputy may permit any person or persons who is in his opinion should be permitted to pass through said city with their guns, pistols or other weapons, so to do.
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An Ordinance Relating to the Carrying of Fire Arms and Other Deadly Weapons, THE ABILENE CHRONICLE, May 12, 1870, at 1 (Abilene, Kansas) § 1
(General Publisher, 1870)
Prohibited the carry of any pistol, revolver, gun, musket, dirk, Bowie-knife, or other dangerous weapon. Violators fined in a sum not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars. The arms in question shall be seized by the police captain.
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An Ordinance Relating to the Carrying of Fire Arms and Other Deadly Weapons, THE ABILENE CHRONICLE, May 12, 1870, at 1 (Abilene, Kansas) § 3
(General Publisher, 1870)
Prohibited intentionally discharging any pistol, revolver, or gun in any street, alley, highway, lot, house, or toher place where life or limb could be endangered. Violators fined not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars.
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Bruce L. Keenan, Book of Ordinances of the City of Wichita Published by Authority of a Resolution Adopted by the City Council April 24, 1899, under the Direction of Judiciary Committee and City Attorney, and Formally Authorized by Ordinance No. 1680 Page 45, Image 69 (1900) § 1
(General Publisher, 1899)
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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Bruce L. Keenan, Book of Ordinances of the City of Wichita Published by Authority of a Resolution Adopted by the City Council April 24, 1899, under the Direction of Judiciary Committee and City Attorney, and Formally Authorized by Ordinance No. 1680 Page 46, Image 70 (1900) §§ 2-4
(General Publisher, 1899)
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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C. B. Pierce, Charter and Ordinances of the City of Leavenworth, with an Appendix, at 45 (1863), An Ordinance Relating to Misdemeanors, § 23
(General Publisher, 1863)
Prohibited the carrying of any concealed “pistol, dirk, bowie knife, revolver, slung shot, billy, brass, lead or iron knuckles, or any other deadly weapon within this city.” Punishable by a fine of $3-100.
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C.F.W. Dassler, The General Statutes of 1901, ch. 19, Art. 3, §§ 748, 1003, 1141
(General Publisher, 1901)
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
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HOLTON, KAN. REV. ORDINANCES No. 169, § 18 at 130, 134-35 (1905) (effective Aug. 8, 1888).
(General Publisher, 1888)
It shall be unlawful for any person within this city to carry upon his person a pistol, dirk. bowie knife, or other deadly weapon concealed or otherwise, and any person so doing shall, upon conviction, be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not to exceed three months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Provided, however, that this shall not apply to an officer in the discharge of his official duty, nor to a person carrying an unloaded shot-gun or rifle; and provided further, that the mayor of this city may, for a good cause shown by any person engaged in any legitimate business, when he deems it necessary for the safety of such person, or his business, give to such person a written permit attested by his signature, and the seal of the city, to carry deadly weapons for his or her defense.