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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.

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    1907 N.J. Laws 116-17
    (1907)
    Ch. 62, 2: For greater certainty it is hereby specified that, in addition to the other powers hereby conferred upon said board, are the following: . . . To regulate and prohibit the use of guns, pistols, firearms and fireworks of all descriptions within the city.
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    1900 N J. Laws 395-96
    (1900)
    Ch. 158, 1: Any person or persons who shall cast or throw any stick, stone, pebble, or other substance, or who shall shoot from any air gun, pistol or rifle any shot or ball at, against or into any trolley car, street railway car or steam railroad car . . . shall be deemed a disorderly person, and upon conviction shall be punished as such, before any justice of the peace, police justice, or city recorder in this state.
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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. 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.
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    Ordinances of the City of Bayonne, From 1869 to 1894, at 521 (1894)
    (1888)
    An Ordinance to Regulate the Discharge of Firearms within the City of Bayonne, 1-2: That no person shall, within the limits of the City of Bayonne, fire or discharge any pistol, cannon, fowling-piece, duck-gun, rifle, air-gun or other gun, except in the lawful defence of his property, person or family, or set off or explode any squibs, Chinese crackers or other fire-works, except on the Fourth of July, under a penalty not exceeding ten dollars for each offence, to be collected in the manner provided by law; provided, however, that the Council may permit proper parties to engage in the practice of marksmanship under proper restrictions.