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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.
  • Research outputs: technical reports, academic studies, training manuals, and curated datasets relevant to the state.

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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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    1933 N.Y. Laws 1638-39
    (1933)
    Ch. 805, §§ 1, 3: Prohibited selling, giving, disposing of, transporting, or possessing a machine gun or submachine gun to a person guilty of a felony.
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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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    1931 N.Y. Laws 1033
    (1931)
    Ch. 435, § 1; Prohibited using an imitation pistol and carrying or possessing a black-jack, slungshot, billy, sandclub, sandbag, metal knuckles, bludgeon, dagger, dirk, dangerous knife, razor, stiletto, imitation pistol, machine gun, sawed off shot-gun, or ay other dangerous or deadly weapon.
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    1923 N.Y. Laws 140-41
    (1923)
    An Act to Amend the Conservation Law in Relation to Aliens, ch. 110, § 2: Prohibited noncitizens from owning or possessing any shotgun or rifle without a special license.
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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.