Henry Jefferson Leovy, The Laws and General Ordinances of the City of New Orleans 257, § 635-36 (1870)
Abstract
636(5): Prohibited unlicensed shooting galleries from operating within city limits.
Summary
These ordinances prohibited firing guns or fireworks within New Orleans without city permission, except for self-defense and military reviews. They also required shooting galleries to obtain neighborhood consent and city approval, and to be enclosed so gunfire could not be heard from surrounding streets.
Law Text
ART. 635. (4.) No person shall fire or discharge any gun, pistol, fowling piece or fire-arms, within the limits of the city, or set fire to, or discharge any rocket, cracker, squib or serpent, or shall throw any lighted rocket, cracker, squib or serpent, within the limits of the city, without the license of the common council; Provided, that nothing herein contained shall apply to military reviews or to the lawful use of weapons in self-defence. ART. 636. (5.) It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to erect, or in any manner establish or continue any pistol or shooting gallery within the limits of the city of New Orleans, without having first obtained the consent of two-thirds of the persons residing within one square of the place where any pistol or shooting gallery is intended to be established, and the permission of the common council; and it shall be the duty of any person or persons so establishing such shooting gallery, to have the same so enclosed as to prevent the report of fire-arms being heard in the street or streets on which the same may be located.
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Categories
SHOOTING RANGES OR GALLERIES, DISCHARGE