Connecticut
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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.
- Legal sources: statutes and session laws, administrative code, attorney general opinions, appellate decisions, and select municipal ordinances.
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- Research outputs: technical reports, academic studies, training manuals, and curated datasets relevant to the state.
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Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, The Charter and By-Laws of the Borough of Wallingford 55 (1882)(1882)§ 15: Prohibited the discharge of any pistol, gun, cannon, or other fire-arm in any street, park, or public ground. Violators fined not exceeding twenty-five dollars.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, Charter and Ordinances of the City of Waterbury, Connecticut, with Amendments Thereto 230, §§ 6-8 (1902)(1897)Good Order and Decency, § 6: Prohibited the possession of any steel, iron, or brass knuckles, or slung shot or weapon of similar character. Also prohibited the concealed carry of any weapon. Violators shall forfeit the weapon and pay a fine of not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense.Item type:Item, J. M. Meech, Charter and Revised Ordinances of the City of Norwich With the Amendments Thereto, and Statutes of the State Relating to Municipal Corporations 178 (1876)(1876)Prohibited the discharge of any swivel, musket, fowling-piece, pistol, or other gun of any description within said city at a distance of less than "fifty rods" from any dwelling house, public highway, or street.Violators fined three dollars.Item type:Item, Charter and Ordinances of the City of Bridgeport: as Amended and Adopted 194 (1874)(1875)Prohibited the possession, keeping for sale, or for any other purpose within city limits, any quantity of gun powder or gun-cotton exceeding one pound in weight. Also prohibited having, keeping for sale, use, or other purpose, any quantity of nitro-glycerine, or other explosive substances or compounds exceeding six ounces without a special license.Item type:Item, Ordinances and By-Laws of the Borough of Naugatuck 3 (1907)(1901)Section 2-An Ordinance or By-Law Relating to Public Safety, Clauses 1-8: Prohibited the discharge of any pistol, revolver, gun, cannon, or other firearm, or air gun in any street, park, or public ground. Also prohibited the carry of any firearm, brass or metal knuckles, slung shot, or similar weapon with permission from the Warden.Item type:Item, 1923 Conn. Acts 3732(1923)Unnaturalized Persons, ch. 259, § 17: Prohibited noncitizens from owning or possessing any shotgun or rifle; violators subject to confiscation and resale of gun by state upon conviction.Item type:Item, 1923 Conn. Pub. Acts 3707-10(1923)An Act Concerning the Possession, Sale and Use of Pistols and Revolvers, ch. 252, § 5: Prohibited the sale of any pistol or revolver in any location not described in the permit allowing such sales. Prohibited the sale or delivery of any pistol or revolver unless the purchase or recipient of such pistol or revolver is personally known to the vendor.Item type:Item, 1923 Conn. Pub. Acts 3667(1923)Ch. 222, § 67: Restricted the use of rifle ranges affiliated with the NRA on Sundays to the hours of one and six in the afternoon.Item type:Item, 1927 Conn. Acts 4286(1927)An Act Concerning The Use of Shot Guns on Sundays by Members of Gun Clubs, ch. 214: Extended § 67 of chapter 222 of 1923 Conn. Pub. Acts to apply to gun clubs affiliated with the NRA and members of such gun clubs using shot guns. The extension restricts the use of shotguns at rifle ranges on Sundays to the hours of one and six in the afternoon. Does not allow hunting on Sundays.Item type:Item, 1901 Conn. Pub. Acts 29(1901)§10: Created a presumption that any person with a gun, trap, or snare on any state game preserve, is in violation of the prohibition of hunting certain animals.Item type:Item, 1911 Conn. Pub. Acts 1357(1911)An Act Concerning the Use of Explosives in Connection with the Crime of Burglary, ch. 98: Prohibited entering any building with the intent to commit any crime therein or attempt open any vault, safe, or other secure place by the use of nitro-glycerin, dynamite, gunpowder, or any other explosive. Violators imprisoned not more than thirty years.Item type:Item, 1 Henry Dutton, A Revision of Swift's Digest of the Laws of Connecticut 564 (1871)(1871)A person, before he trusts a gun with an incautious person, is bound to render it perfectly innoxious.Item type:Item, 1872 Conn. Pub. Acts 108(1872)An Act in Addition to an Act for the Preservation of Game, chap. 115, § 2: Prohibited killing any wild duck, goose, or brant with any instrument known as a punt gun or swivel, or any other such guns as are habitually raised at arms' length and fired from the shoulder. Also prohibited attempt to capture said animals with said instruments, or any other instrument or gun other than such guns aforesaid.