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Massachusetts

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Start date: 1850Category: search.filters.subject.TRANSFER, MANUFACTURE & POSSESSION - TOYS AND EXPLOSIVES

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    Municipal Register of the City of Haverhill 157 (1897)
    (1896)
    Ch. 42, §§ 1-4: No person shall sell to any child under the age of sixteen years, without the written consent of the parent or guardian of such child, any toy-pistol or toy-cannon or any other article in which explosive compounds of any kind are used or of which such compounds form a part. Sect. 2. No person shall have, use, explode, fire off or discharge in any public street, place, lane, alley,, way, or on any common, park or public ground whatever within the city limits, any toy-pistol, toy-cannon or any other such article in which explosive compounds of any kind are used, or of which such compounds form a part. Sect. 3. Whoever violates any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars. Sect. 4 . In every license granted to keep or sell gun-powder or fireworks within the City of Haverhill, the above section shall be inserted."
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    Revised Ordinances of the City of Fitchburg 179 (1893)
    (1893)
    Fitchburg Revised Ordinances. §§ 75-76: No person shall sell or keep for sale, within the limits of the city of Fitchburg, any toy pistol, toy cannon, or any other such article in which explosive compounds of any kind are used, or of which such compounds form a part. § 76. No person shall have, use, explode, fire off or discharge, within the limits of the city of Fitchburg, any toy pistol, toy cannon, or any other such article in which explosive compounds of any kind are used, or of which such compounds form a part.
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    Revised Ordinances of 1892 of the City of Boston 115 (1895)
    (1895)
    § 91: No person shall manufacture or sell, or expose for sale, any guncotton, nitro-glycerine, or any compounds of the same, nor any fulminate or substance, except gunpowder, intended to be used by exploding or igniting it, in order to produce a force to propel missiles, or to rend substances apart, except in accordance with a permit from the board of fire commissioners; nor shall any person send or carry through the public streets any such substance, except in the manner and in the quantities allowed by statute or ordinance.
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    1910 Mass. Acts 552
    (1910)
    An Act to Prohibit the Sale of Certain Pistols and Explosives and to Authorize the Making of Regulations Relative to Fireworks and Firecrackers, ch. 565, § 1: It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or keep for sale any blank cartridge, toy pistol, toy gun or toy cannon that can be used to fire a blank cartridge; or to sell or keep for sale, or to fire, explode or cause to explode any blank cartridge or bomb; or to sell or keep for sale, or to set off, explode or cause to explode any fireworks containing any pieric acid or pirates, or any firecracker exceeding two inches in length and three eights of an inch in diameter or of a greater explosive power than a firecracker of such size containing black gunpowder only . . .