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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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  • Item type:Item,
    Jersey City, N.J., Rev. Ordinances ch. 23, §§ 1-3 (1899)
    (1871)
    Concerning the Transportation, Shipment and Landing of Gunpowder: Regulated the import of gunpowder and storage thereof. Also regulated the storage of gunpowder within the city
  • Item type:Item,
    1776-77 N.J. Laws 6
    (1776)
    "Act for the Inspection of Gunpowder," ch. 6, 1: Required the inspection of gunpowder prior to sale, and appointed state inspectors to "mark" lots that passed inspection.
  • Item type:Item,
    Ordinances of the City of Bayonne, From 1869 to 1894, at 338-40 (1894)
    (1877)
    An Ordinance To Regulate the Sale, Storage, and Keeping of Gunpowder and Other Explosive and Dangerous Materials Within the Limits of the City of Bayonne, 1-5: Regulated the storage and sale of gunpowder in the city of Bayonne
  • Item type:Item,
    Hoboken, N.J., Ordinances ch. 22, §§ 246-47 (1901)
    (1901)
    Concerning the Manufacture, Storage, Transportation, and Sale of Powder, Nitro-glycerine, etc.: No person shall manufacture, have, keep or give away any gunpowder, blasting powder, gun cotton, nitro-glycerine or dualin within the limits of the City of Hoboken, except in quantities limited in the manner and upon the conditions herein provided and under such regulations in special cases as the Board of Fire Commissioners shall prescribe.
  • Item type:Item,
    Rahway, N.J., Rev. Code tit. 27, §§ 206-208 (1896)
    (1896)
    Regulated the sale, storage, and transportation of gunpowder in the city of Rahwey
  • Item type:Item,
    1811 N.J. Laws 225-26
    (1811)
    An Act to Regulate Gun Powder Manufactories and Magazines within this State 1: Required manufactories of gunpowder and storage magazines to be located away from populated areas.
  • Item type:Item,
    Charter and Ordinances of the City of Trenton 185 (1875)
    (1842)
    An Ordinance concerning Nuisances, 1: No merchant, storekeeper, or other person whatever, shall keep, at any one time, more than fifty pounds of gunpowder on the premises used or occupied by him, within the thickly built and inhabited parts of the city, under the penalty of fifty dollars."