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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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    An Ordinance Regulating the Carrying of Loaded Firearms and Other Dangerous Weapons in the City of Troy, § 1, in Municipal Ordinances of the City of Troy (1905)
    (1905)
    Any person, other than a peace officer, who shall in any public street, highway or place within the City of Troy, have or carry concealed upon his person any loaded pistol, revolver, or other firearm, or any slungshot, billy, sand-club, or a dagger, dirk, stilletto, or dangerous knife, without theretofore having been authorized as hereinafter provided to carry the same, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars or by imprisonment in a penitentiary or county jail for not more than one hundred and fifty days, or by both.
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    1900 N.Y. Laws 756
    (1900)
    Ch. 338, art. 3, § 32, pt. 12: To regulate or prevent the discharge of firearms, rockets, gunpowder or other explosives, or the making of bon-fires.
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    Penal Ordinance No. 35: Concealed Weapon[s], §§ 1-4, in Revised Charter Ordinances and Franchises of the City of Lockport (1909)
    (1909)
    No person over the age of 16 years shall have or carry concealed upon his person, in said city, any pistol, revolver, or other firearm without a written license therefor, theretofore issued to him by the chief of police of such city as hereinafter provided. Also provided licensing and registration requirements for concealed carry permits
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    An Ordinance Regulating the Carrying of Loaded Firearms in the City of Albany, Part 4, Ch. 72, § 1 in The Municipal Code of the City of Albany (1905).
    (1905)
    Any person, other than a peace officer, who shall in any public street, highway, or place within the city of Albany, have or carry concealed upon his person any loaded pistol, revolver, or other firearm, without theretofore having been authorized as hereinafter provided to carry the same, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in a penitentiary or county jail for not more than one hundred and fifty days, or by both.
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    1913 N.Y. Laws 1627-30, §§ 2-3
    (1913)
    Vol. III, ch. 608, §§ 2-3; No pistol, revolver or other firearms of a size which may be concealed upon the person, shall be sold, or given away, or otherwise disposed of, except to a person expressly authorized under the provisions of section eighteen hundred and ninety-seven of the penal law to possess and have such firearm.
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    1916 N.Y. Laws 338-39
    (1916)
    An Act to Amend the Penal Law, in Relation to the Selling or Possessing of Silencers for Firearms, ch. 137, § 1: A person who sells or keeps for sale, or offers, or gives or disposes of, or who shall have or carry concealed upon his person any instrument, attachment, weapon or appliance for causing the firing of any gun, revolver, pistol, or other firearms to be silent or intended to lessen or muffle the noise of the firing of any gun, revolver, pistol, or other firearms shall be guilty of a felony, punishable by imprisonment for not more than five years.
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    Ordinances, Rules and Regulations of the Department of Parks of the City of New York 7 (1916).
    (1916)
    No person shall, in any park, . . . 8. Fire or carry any firearm, firecracker, torpedo or fireworks.
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    1909 N.Y. Laws ch. 14, § 4
    (1909)
    Enacted the Second Amendment as statutory law in the state of New York.
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    1905 N.Y. Laws 129-30
    (1905)
    Ch. 92, § 2: Prohibited anyone over the age of sixteen to carry or carry concealed any pistol, revolver, or other firearm without a licensed issued by a police magistrate. Also prohibited the use against another, carry, or possession of slung-shot, billy, sandclub, metal knuckles, dagger, or dangerous knife is guilty of a felony.
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    3 Privileges and Penalties in The Annotated Consolidated Laws of the State of New York, at 3567 (1909).
    (1909)
    Military Law, ch. 41, art. 11, § 241: No body of men, other than the active 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. No city or town shall raise or appropriate any money toward arming or equipping, uniforming or in any other way supporting, sustaining or providing drill rooms or armories for any such body of men;
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    1911 N.Y. Laws 443
    (1911)
    Ch. 195: The "Sullivan Law." Expanded criminal possession of all handguns, concealed or otherwise, without a government-issued license. Later amended in 1913 such that Magistrates could issue only if applicants proved "good moral character" and "proper cause." 1913 N. Y. Laws ch. 608, §1, p. 1629.
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    1908 N.Y. Laws 242
    (1908)
    Ch. 93, § 1: Prohibited possession of any slungshot, billy, sandclub, or metal knuckles. Prohibited possession of dagger, dirk, or dangerous knife with intent of harm. Violators guilty of a felony.
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    1900 N.Y. Laws 26
    (1900)
    Ch. 20, art. 2, § 21: Web-footed wild fowl shall not be taken except with a gun fired at arms length without rest. They shall not be fired at from a boat propelled otherwise than by hand or from any boughhouse or floating device used to conceal the hunter if more than fifty feet from shore, or a natural growth of grass or flags. Fowl taken in violation of law shall not be brought ashore, sold or possessed.
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    1900 N.Y. Laws 458-59
    (1900)
    Ch. 222, § 1: Prohibited manufacturing or selling a slungshot, billy, sandclub or metal knuckles, and prohibited selling a firearm to a minor in any city or incorporated village without written consent of police magistrate. Exempted any officer of the United States or peace officer when necessary and proper to discharge official duties.
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    An Ordinance to regulate the government of parks and other public pleasure grounds of The City of New York, in Proceedings of the Board of Alderman of the City of New York 600 (1903)
    (1903)
    § XXIV: No one shall fire or carry any firearm, fire cracker, torpedo or fire-works, nor make a fire, nor make any oration, nor conduct any religious or other meeting or ceremony within any of the parks, parkways, squares or places in The City of New York under the jurisdiction of the Department of Parks without special permission from the Commissioner having jurisdiction
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    1900 N.Y. Laws 1174
    (1900)
    Ch. 494, § 1: A person who makes or keeps gunpowder, nitro-glycerine, or any other explosive or combustible material, within a city or village, or carries such materials through the streets thereof, in a quantity or manner prohibited by law or by ordinance of the city or village, is guilty of a misdemeanor. A person who manufactures gunpowder, dynamite, nitro-glycerine, liquid or compressed air or gases, except acetylene gas and other gases used for illuminating purposes, naptha, gasoline, benzine [sic] or any explosive articles or compounds or manufactures ammunition, fireworks or other articles of which such substance are component parts in a cellar, room or apartment of a tenement or dwelling house or any building occupied in whole or in party by persons or families for living purposes, is guilty of a misdemeanor