Mass. Gen. Stat. 255, ch. 49, § 27 (1873)
| dc.coverage.spatial | Massachusetts | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-24T01:55:27Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-12T13:54:25Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-17T02:21:47Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1859 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Appointed six individuals in each county for proving of musket barrels and pistols. Proven arms are stamped by the appointed officials. | |
| dc.description.lawtext | Sect. 27. The governor, with the advice and consent of the council, shall appoint suitable persons, not exceeding six in each county where the manufacture of fire-arms is carried on, to be provers of fire-arms, who shall be sworn, and who shall prove all musket barrels and pistol barrels which, being sufficiently ground, bored, and breeched, are offered to them to be proved. Sect. 28. All musket barrels and pistol barrels manufactured in this state shall before they are sold or stocked, be proved by one of the provers with a ball suited to the bore of the barrel and a charge of powder equal in weight to the ball. The powder used in such proof shall be such that one ounce thereof in a howitzer of four and a half inch calibre at an elevation of forty-five degrees shall be of sufficient power to carry a twelve-pound shot one hundred and thirty yards; or one ounce thereof in a howitzer of five and a half inch calibre at an elevation of forty-five degrees shall be sufficient to carry a twenty-four-pound shot eighty yards. | |
| dc.description.summary | The law requires the governor to appoint official firearm provers in counties where firearms are manufactured and mandates that all musket and pistol barrels be safety-tested before being sold or assembled. It also prescribes standardized proof-testing procedures, including specified powder performance and ball charges, to ensure barrels meet required safety standards. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/4227 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedbyGoogle | https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_General_Statutes_of_the_Commonwealth/YngQAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA260&printsec=frontcover | |
| dc.subject | MANUFACTURE ONLY | |
| dc.title | Mass. Gen. Stat. 255, ch. 49, § 27 (1873) |