Act of February 14, 1887, § 3, ALBANY, CHARTER AND GENERAL ORDINANCES (C. W. Watts 1887).

24. To regulate the storage of blasting and gunpowder, giant powder, dynamite, nitroglycerine, coal oil, tar, pitch, resin and all other explosive and combustible material, and the use of candles, lamps and other lights in streets, stores shops and other places; to suppress, remove and secure any fireplace, stove, chimney, oven, boiler or other apparatus which may be dangerous in causing fires, and to prevent by all possible and proper means danger or risk of injury or damage by fire arising from carelessness, negligence or otherwise. [...] 32. To regulate and prohibit the carrying of deadly or dangerous weapons in a concealed manner, and to provide for the punishment by fine or imprisonment, or both, of any person carrying any deadly or dangerous weapon in a concealed manner, and to define by ordinance what shall be deemed a deadly or dangerous weapon and what shall constitute a carrying of such weapon in a concealed manner. 33. To regulate and prohibit the use of guns, pistols and firearms, fire- crackers, bombs and detonating works of all descriptions.