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Jurisdiction: search.filters.coverage.New York - New York CityStart date: 1820

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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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    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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    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;