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Rules, By-Laws and Ordinances of the Village of Wappingers Falls 34 (1898)
(1898)
Ordinances of Wappinger Falls. Park Ordinances. § 1: No person or persons shall fire or discharge any gun or pistol or other firearm, or any rocket torpedo, or other fireworks of any description, nor send up any balloon, nor throw stones or missiles, nor play ball within the limits of Mesier Park, without the permission obtained of the Park Commissioners at a meeting of the Board.
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
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.
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.
Revised Charter of the City of Elmira 17, 20-22 (1898)
(1898)
Elmira City Charter, Title 3-Powers and Duties of the Common Council, § 26, pts. d, e, & k: Granted the Common Council the power to regulate firearm discharge and gun powder storage
1891 N.Y. Laws 129
(1891)
Ch. 105, tit. 7, ch. 2, § 209: No person other than members of the police force, regularly elected constables, the sheriff of Erie county, and his duly appointed deputies, shall, in the city, carry concealed upon or about his person, any pistol or revolver, or other dangerous weapon or weapons, without first obtaining a permit, as hereinbefore provided;
1898 N.Y. Laws 582
(1898)
Ch. 212, art. 11, § 177: No body of men, other than the regularly organized corps of the national guard and militia and the troops of the United States except such independent military organizations as were on the twenty-third day of April, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and now are, in existence, shall associate themselves together as a military company or organization, or parade in public with firearms in any city or town of this state.
1899 N.Y. Laws 1341
(1899)
Ch. 603, § 1: Prohibited the selling or giving to a minor under the age of eighteen any pistol or other firearm. Also prohibited the selling or giving away any air-gun or spring-gun to minors under the age of twelve. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor.
3 The Revised Statutes, Code, and General Laws of the State of New York 3330, § 1-4 (Clarence F. Birdseye ed., 1890)
(1890)
Prohibited the manufacture, sale, giving, keeping for sale, or disposition of any slungshot, billy, sand-club, or metal knuckles. Also prohibited the sale of pistols to minors in any city or incorproated village without written consent from a magistrate.
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.
1881 N.Y. Code of Crim. Proc. 126, 126-127, ch. 2, § 512, no. 1
(1881)
Prohibited habitual criminals from possessing firearms

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