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Jurisdiction: search.filters.coverage.New York - New York CityStart date: 1640

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    Laws, Statutes, Ordinances, and Constitutions 11 (John Holt ed., 1763)
    (1763)
    Prohibited the discharge of firearms within the city of New York.
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    The New York City Consolidation Act, as in Force in 1891, at 209 (1891)
    (1890)
    Gunpowder and other explosives. Sale thereof regulated, § 455: No person shall manufacture, have, keep, sell, or give away any gunpowder, blasting powder, gun-cotton, niro-glycerine, dualin, or any explosive oils or compounds, within the corporate limits of the city of New York, except in the quantities limited, in the manner, and upon the conditions herein provided, and under such regulations as the board of fire commissioners shall prescribe
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    Laws and Ordinances, Ordained and Established by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty, of the City of New York 25-26 (1799)
    (1799)
    A Law to regulate the keeping of gun-powder in the city of New York: That no person or persons shall keep in any house, shop store house or other place within two miles of the city hall of the said city (Magazines of powder of the United States or of this state only excepted) any more or greater quantity of gun powder at one time than twenty-eight pounds,
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    Ordinance to Regulate the Carrying of Pistols, reprinted in BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Oct. 26, 1880, at 1
    (1880)
    Prohibited concealed carry of any pistol without a license. Licenses only issued to individuals twenty-one and over in age.
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    Edward Livingston, Laws and Ordinances, Ordained and Established by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of New York 83-84 (1803)
    (1803)
    Ch 23, § 1: That no person shall hereafter be permitted to fire or discharge any gun, pistol, fowling piece, or fire-arm, at any place on the island of New York, within the distance of four miles from the City Hall, under the penalty of five dollars upon each offender, to be recovered with costs.
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    Laws and Ordinances of the City of New York app. at 1 (1793)
    (1786)
    An Act to prevent the Firing of Guns and other Fire-Arms within this State, on certain days therein mentioned: If any person or persons, of what age, sex, or quality whatsoever, from and after the said first day of June next, shall fire and discharge any gun, pistol, rocket, cracker, squib or other fire-work, in any street, lane or ally, garden or other inclosure, or from any house, or in any other place where persons frequently walk, to the southward of Fresh-Water; that then every such person or persons so offending, and being thereof convicted before on or more justice or justices of the peace for the said city and county of New York, either by the confession of the party or parties so offending, or the oath of one or more witness or witnesses, (which oath the said justice or justices of the peace is and are hereby empowered and required to administer) shall, for every such offense, forfeit the sum of twenty shillings...
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    D. T. Valentine, Ordinances of the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York 235 (1859)
    (1859)
    Ch. 13, § 6 : No tavern-keeper, keeper of a public house, garden or place of resort, nor any other person, shall suffer or permit any person to practice with or fire off any pistol, gun, fowling-piece or other fire-arms, in or upon his or her premises, nor shall suffer or permit any pistol gallery, erected in his or her house, or upon his or her premises, to be used for the purpose of practicing with any pistol gun, fowling-piece or other fire-arms, upon the first day of the week, called Sunday, under the penalty of fifty dollars for each offense, to be sued for and recovered from the person keeping such public house, tavern, public garden, pistol gallery, place of resort or premises;
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    5 Colonial Laws of New York 244-246 (1894)
    (1773)
    Ch. 1501: Restricted the firing of guns, pistols, rockets, crackers, squibs, or other fireworks on New Years Eve or the days following. Violators fined twenty shillings.
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    Laws, Statutes, Ordinances, and Constitutions 20 (John Holt ed., 1763)
    (1763)
    § XVI: And whereas the present store-keeper of the magazine with the consent of the corporation, for the more safe conveying of gun-powder to and from the said magazine, hath provided leather bags, or covers, in order to cover all casks of gun powder to and form the said magazine, be it ordained by the authority aforesaid that from and after the publication hereof, no cart-man, or other person whatsoever, do presume to carry any gun powder to or from the said Magazine, or through any part of this city, but what shall be covered with leather bags as aforesaid, under the penalty of forty shillings, for every offense; the one half thereof to the informer, and the other half to the church wardens of this city for the time being, for the use of the poor thereof.
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    Laws, Statutes, Ordinances, and Constitutions 18-19 (John Holt ed., 1763)
    (1763)
    Ordinances of the City of New York, § XII: For every load of gunpowder, to or from the powder-house, not exceeding four casks, two shillings and six pence. If less than four casks eighteen pence. If more than four casks three shillings.]