1910 Mass. Acts 552
Abstract
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 . . .
Summary
It prohibits the sale, possession for sale, or use of blank cartridges, toy guns that fire blanks, and certain fireworks or explosives (including those with picric acid or oversized firecrackers), and also bans their detonation in general, while carving out exceptions for regulated or official uses such as permitted fireworks displays, theatrical or athletic signaling, industrial testing, out-of-state shipments, ceremonial salutes with permits, and use by militia, veterans’ organizations, or expert firearms instruction on non-holiday days.
Law Text
Section 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 picric acid or picrates, or any firecracker exceeding two inches in length and three eighths of an inch in diameter or of a greater explosive power than a firecracker of such size containing black gunpowder only: provided, that this section shall not apply to illuminating fireworks set off between the hours of seven o'clock in the afternoon and twelve o'clock midnight, excepting those containing picric acid or picrates, or to the sale of any article herein named to be shipped directly out of the state, or to the sale or use of explosives in the firing of salutes by official authorities, or to the sale or use of blank cartridges for a duly licensed show or theatre or for signal purposes in athletic sports, or to experiments at a factory for explosives, or the firing of salutes with cannon on shore or on boats where a permit has been secured from the chief of the district police or from some official designated by him for that purpose, or to the sale for use, or the use by the militia, or by any organization of war veterans, or in teaching the use of firearms by experts on days other than holidays.
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Categories
TRANSFER, MANUFACTURE & POSSESSION - TOYS AND EXPLOSIVES