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Connecticut

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Connecticut. It supports research on the state’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from the colonial period through statehood to the present.

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Jurisdiction: search.filters.coverage.Connecticut - New HavenStart date: 1780

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    1901 Conn. Spec. Acts 602 (Jan. Sess.)
    (1901)
    § 20: Granted the county of New Haven the authority to regulate the discharge of firearms within the Borough. Also granted the authority to license, regulate, or prohibit the manufacture, keeping for sale, and use of fireworks, torpedoes, firecrackers, gunpowder, petroleum, dynamite, or other explosive or inflammable substance.
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    Charles Stoers Hamilton, Charter and Ordinances of the City of New Haven, Together with Legislative Acts Affecting Said City 164 (1890)
    (1890)
    § 192: Prohibited the concealed carrying of any metal knuckles, pistol, slungshot, stiletto, or similar weapons, absent written permission of the mayor or superintendent of police. Punishable by a fine of $5-50.
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    By-Laws of the City of New Haven 15 (1840)
    (1827)
    Title XI - Gunpowder: Prohibited, directly or indirectly, selling or delivering any gunpowder, or to have, store, or keep any quantity of gunpowder greater than one pound weight. The Court of Common Council shall have the power to license the sale, having, storing, and keeping gunpowder up to seven pounds in weight, and stored in a tin canister.
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    Charter of the City of New Haven 142-43 (1881)
    (1881)
    § 18: Prohibited the sale of any fixed ammunition, gun, pistol, or other mechanical contrivance arranged for the explosion of cartridge, or any fulminate to any child under the age of sixteen.
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    Charter and By-Laws of the City of New Haven 91-96 (1865)
    (1865)
    That hereafter no person or persons shall, within the limits hereafter described, either directly or indirectly, sell and deliver any gunpowder, or have, store, or keep any quantity of gunpowder greater than one pound weight, without having obtained a license for that purpose from said Court of Common Council, in the manner herein prescribed.§
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    1845 Conn. Pub. Acts 10
    (1845)
    An Act Prohibiting the Firing of Guns and Other Fire Arms in the City of New Haven, ch. 10: Prohibited the discharge of any gun or other firearm of any kind within the city limits of New Haven. Violators fined seven dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding thirty days.