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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.

  • Legal sources: statutes and session laws, administrative code and registers, attorney general opinions, appellate decisions, and select municipal ordinances.
  • 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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    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.
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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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    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
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    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;
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.