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New York

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

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  • Historical materials: newspapers, photographs, maps, catalogs, armory and manufacturing records, maritime and law-enforcement archives, and oral histories tied to New York people and places.
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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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    First Annual Report of the Improvement of the Central Park, New York (January 1, 1857) Appendix A, 106 (Chas. W. Baker 1857)
    (1857)
    Among other activities, restricts carry of firearms and throwing of stones or other missiles in Central Park.
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    Minutes of Proceedings of Bd. of Comm'rs of Central Park, N.Y. for Year Ending April 30, 1858, at 166 (1858)
    (1858)
    Prohibited the carry of firearms, throwing stones or other missiles within Central Park.
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    Acts Relating to the City of Brooklyn, and the Ordinances Thereof 25 (1836)
    (1836)
    Tit. 1, § 1: That it shall not be lawful for any person within the first six wards, and in so much of the seventh ward as lies westerly of Clinton avenue and the Jamaica turnpike, southerly of the place where the said turnpike is intersected by Clinton avenue, in said city, to fire or discharge any gun, pistol, fowling piece, or fire arms, or to explode or set off any squib, cracker, or other thing containing gunpowder, or any combustible material, under the penalty of five dollars for each and every offence.
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    1849 N.Y. Laws 403
    (1849)
    Ch. 278, § 1: Prohibited the manufacture, sale, giving, or disposing of any instrument or weapon usually known as a slungshot, and prohibited the carrying any slungshot or similar weapon. Violators guilty of misdemeanor, punishable by fine not less than two hundred and fifty, nor over five hundred dollars, or imprisonment not less than six months, nor over two years.