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New Jersey

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to New Jersey. It supports research on the state’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from the colonial period through statehood to the present.

  • Legal sources: statutes and session laws, administrative code, attorney general opinions, appellate decisions, and select municipal ordinances.
  • Historical materials: newspapers, photographs, maps, catalogs, manufacturing, maritime, and law-enforcement records, and oral histories tied to New Jersey people and places.
  • Research outputs: technical reports, academic studies, training manuals, and curated datasets relevant to the state.

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    General Ordinances of the City of Plainfield, New Jersey 125-26 (1902)
    (1895)
    An Ordinance Concerning Firearms and Other Deadly Weapons: That no person shall fire or discharge any gun, fowling piece or firearms within the limits of the City of Plainfield. That no person shall carry within the limits of the City of Plainfield concealed upon or about his person, any pistol, dirk, butcher or bowie knife, stilletto, dagger, sword, or spear in a cane, brass or metal knuckles, razor, slug shot, or other deadly weapon
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    1892 N.J. Laws 353
    (1892)
    Ch. 217, 1-2: That if any person shall be apprehended in any city of this state, having concealed upon his or her person any offensive weapon, then he or she shall be deemed and adjudged to be a disorderly person; provided, that this act shall not apply to sheriffs, under sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, constables, policemen or other peace officers, nor to any person having a written permit from the police authorities of such city to carry such weapon.
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    An Ordinance to Regulate the Carrying of Concealed Weapons and to Prohibit the Carrying of the Same Except as Herein Provided, in Montclair Times, May 15, 1897, at 8
    (1897)
    No person shall carry any deadly weapon concealed on his person within the Town of Montclair except members of the police force of the Town of Montclair, public officers either of the United States or of this State or any sub-division thereof who are duly authorized by law to carry such weapons and persons to whom permits shall have been issued as hereinafter provided.
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    Book of Ordinances of the Town of Freehold, New Jersey 54 (1894)
    (1894)
    That if any person or persons shall fire, discharge, or let off any gun, pistol, squib, or other fire-work within this town within one hundred yards of any dwelling house, stable, or any other building, every such person or persons so offending and being thereof duly convicted, shall forfeit and pay for every such offense the sum of Five Dollars
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    Rahway, N.J., Rev. Code tit. 27, §§ 206-208 (1896)
    (1896)
    Regulated the sale, storage, and transportation of gunpowder in the city of Rahwey
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    Rahway, N.J., Rev. Code tit. 28, § 209 (1896)
    (1896)
    That if any person between the hours of five P. M. and seven A. M. of any day, kindle or cause to be kindled, within the limits of the city, any bonfire or shall at any time of day or night fire or discharge within said city limits without written permission from the Mayor of the city, any cannon, gun, pistol or other firearms (except upon private property and premises of the party so discharging said firearms)the person so offending shall forfeit and pay for each and every such offense the sum of five dollars besides cost of conviction.