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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.

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    Laws and Ordinances, Ordained and Established by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty, of the City of New York 25-26 (1799)
    (1799)
    A Law to regulate the keeping of gun-powder in the city of New York: That no person or persons shall keep in any house, shop store house or other place within two miles of the city hall of the said city (Magazines of powder of the United States or of this state only excepted) any more or greater quantity of gun powder at one time than twenty-eight pounds,
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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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    1792 N.Y. Laws 191
    (1792)
    Prohibited storing of gun powder beyond twenty-eight pounds in weight in one location. Violators fined fifty pounds for every "hundred weight" of powder overstocked. Note: The law was passed in 1788, not 1792.
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    1784 N.Y. Laws 627
    (1784)
    An Act to Prevent the Danger Arising from the Pernicious Practice of Lodging Gun Powder in Dwelling Houses, Stores, or Other Places within Certain Parts of the City of New York, or on Board of Vessels within the Harbour Thereof, ch. 28: It shall not be lawful [sic] for any merchant, shopkeeper, or retailer, or any other person, or persons whatsoever, to have or keep any quantity of gun powder exceeding twenty-eight pounds weight, in any one place, less than one mile to the northward of the city hall of the said city, except in the public magazine at the Fresh-water, and the said quantity of twenty-eight pounds weight, which shall be lawfull [sic] for any person to have and keep at any place within this city, shall be seperated [sic] into four stone jugs or tine canisters, which shall not contain more than seven pounds each, on pain of forfeiting all such gunpowder,