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New York

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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.
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.
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.
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
Charles Wheeler, By-Laws of the Village of Mechanicville 7 (1881)
(1881)
Fires and Their Prevention, Fire Arms and Fire Works, § 20: No person, except on the anniversary of our national independence, and on that day only, at such place or places as the President or Trustees shall permit, shall fire, discharge or set off, in the village, any gun, cannon, pistol, rocket, squib, cracker or fire ball, under the penalty of five dollars for each offense.
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.
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
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.
1889 N.Y. Laws 167
(1889)
Ch. 140 § 2: Prohibited using, intent to use, or carrying concealed any slung-shot, billy, sand-club, metal knuckles, dagger, dirk, dangerous knife. Violators guilty of a felony.
Ordinances of the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York, in Force January 1, 1881; Adopted by the Common Council and Published by Their Authority 214-215 (1881)
(1881)
ch. 8, art. 27, § 264: And persons to whom permits shall have been issued, as hereinafter provided, who shall have in his possession within the city of New York a pistol of any description concealed on his person, or not carried openly, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished, on conviction by a fine not exceeding ten dollars, or, in default of payment of such fine by imprisonment not exceeding ten days.
1883 N.Y. Pen. Code 142, tit. 13, § 468
(1883)
A person, who willfully discharges any species of firearms, air-gun, or other weapon, or throws any deadly missile in any public place, or in any place where there is any person to be endangered thereby, although no injury to any person shall ensue, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
1884 N.Y. Laws 46-7
(1884)
Ch. 46, § 7: Prohibited the sale or giving of any pistol or firearm to minors under the age of 18. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor.
George R. Donnan, Annotated Code of Criminal Procedure and Penal Code of the State of New York 298, § 409-10 (4th ed. 1885)
(1885)
Tit. 12, § 409: A person who manufactures, or causes to be manufactured, or sells or keeps for sale, or offers, or gives, or disposes of, any instrument or weapon of the kind usually known as slung-shot, billy, sand club or metal knuckles, or who, in any city in this state, without the written consent of a police magistrate, sells or gives any pistol or other fire-arm to any person under the age of eighteen years is guilty of a misdemeanor.
1881 N.Y. Laws 103, § 410
(1881)
Tit. 12, § 410: Prohibits the use against another or carries with intent to use against another any slung-shot, billy, sand-club, metal knuckles, dagger, dirk, or dangerous knife. Violators guilty of a felony
The Statute Law of the State of New York 321 (1881)
(1881)
Ch. 3, § 9: Prohibited using, attempting to use, or concealing a slungshot, billy, sandclub or metal knuckles, and any dirk. Punishable by imprisonment for up to 1 year and/or a fine up to $500.
1881 N.Y. Laws 103, § 412
(1881)
Tit. 12, § 412: Prohibited the concealed carrying of any kind of fire-arms, any sharp or dangerous weapon usually employed in attack or defense of the person. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor.
George R. Donnan, Annotated Code of Criminal Procedure and Penal Code of the State of New York 298, ch. 375 (4th ed. 1885)
(1885)
Ch. 375, § 1: No person under the age of eighteen years shall carry or have in his possession in any public street, highway or place in any of the cities of this state, any pistol or other firearms of any kind, and no person shall in such cities sell or give any pistol or other fire-arms to any person under such age
1881 N.Y. Laws 102
(1881)
Tit. 12, § 409: Prohibited the manufacture, sale, giving, or disposing of any instrument or weapon usually known as a slungshot, billy, sand-club, or metal knuckles and prohibited the carrying any slungshot or similar weapon. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor.
"The Man Trap," The Buffalo Commercial, Nov. 1, 1870
(1870)
Referenced prohibition on the use of "infernal machines."
1881 N.Y. Code of Crim. Proc. 126, 126-127, ch. 2, § 512, no. 1
(1881)
Prohibited habitual criminals from possessing firearms
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.
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.

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