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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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    Charter and Ordinances of the City of Syracuse 192 (1877)
    (1877)
    Ch. 27, § 7: Any individual who shall carry about his or her person any dirk, bowie knife, sword or spear cane, pistol, revolver, slung-shot, jemme, brass knuckles, or other deadly or unlawful weapon, with the intent to do bodily harm to any other person or persons, shall be liable to a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars, and also to imprisonment not to exceed three months.
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    Charter of the City of Schenectady 97 (1869)
    (1863)
    An Ordinance Prohibiting the Obstructing of Side-Walks, and for Other Purposes, § 3: It shall not be lawful for any person to discharge any gun, pistol or other fire-arms, except in a shooting gallery, within the lamp district of this city; and every person offending in this respect shall be punished by fine not exceeding ten dollars and the costs of the suit, and to stand committed until such fine and costs be paid, not exceeding ten days.
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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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    Charter of the Village of Lansingburgh 50 (1865)
    (1865)
    An Ordinance to prevent accidents by fire in the village of Lansinburgh, and for other purposes, § 5: Nor shall any person or persons fire any cannon, gun, pistol or other fire arms, or set fire to, or burn any squib, cracker, rocket or powder (except for the purpose of blasting rocks for improvements, or trying guns in the manufacturing of them,) within the limits of said village without the consent of the president or board of trustees of said village
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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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    Fourth Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park 106 (1861)
    (1861)
    Prohibited any person from carrying firearms, throwing stones or other missiles within 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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    1869 N.Y. Rev. Stat. 613, ch. 20, pt. 1, tit. 8, § 3
    (1869)
    No person shall fire or discharge any gun, pistol, rocket, squib, cracker, or other fire-work, within a quarter mile of any building, on the twenty-fifth day of December, on the last day of December, on the first day of January, or on the twenty-second day of February, in any year; nor on the fourth day of July, or such other day as shall at the time be celebrated as the anniversary of American independence, without the order of some officer of the militia, while in the course of military exercise
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    William G. Bishop, Charter of the City of Brooklyn 192, § 15-16 (1877)
    (1877)
    Ordinances of the City of Brooklyn § 16: No person shall carry, or cause to be carried, any gunpowder through any street, lane or alley in the city, unless the same be secured in tight casks, kegs or cases, well headed and hooped; and said casks, kegs or cases shall be put into and entirely covered with a bag or case sufficiently to prevent any said gunpowder from being spilled or scattered, under the penalty of forfeiture of the gunpowder and a fine of fifty dollars for every violation of the provisions of this act.
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    "The Man Trap," The Buffalo Commercial, Nov. 1, 1870
    (1870)
    Referenced prohibition on the use of "infernal machines."
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    9 Statutes at Large of the State of New York 188 (1875)
    (1874)
    Ch. 721, § 3: No person shall at any time kill any wild duck, goose are or brant, with any device or instrument known as a swivel or punt gun, or with any gun other than such guns as are habitually raised at arms length and fired from the shoulder, or shall use any net, device or instrument, or gun other than such gun as aforesaid with intent to capture or kill any such wild duck, goose or brant under a penalty of one hundred dollars.
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    1866 N.Y. Laws 1523
    (1866)
    Ch. 716, § 1: Prohibited using, attempting to use, concealing, or possessing a slungshot, billy, sandclub or metal knuckles, and any dirk or dagger, or sword cane or air-gun. Punishable by imprisonment for up to one year and/or a fine up to five hundred dollars.