Collection of Historical Firearm Regulations
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This collection serves as a comprehensive repository for academic research, historical documentation, and case studies related to firearm regulations. It focuses on the evolution of firearm laws, their interpretations across different jurisdictions, and their historical impact on society. This collection offers valuable resources for scholars, legal experts, and researchers interested in the legal frameworks surrounding firearm regulation.
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Item Open Access The Documentary History Of The State Of New - York, at 222-223 (1849)(General Publisher, 1690)Prohibited the discharge of pistols and firearms in AlbanyItem Open Access The Colonial Laws of New York from the Year 1664 to the Revolution . . ., at 40-41 (1896)(General Publisher, 1680)Prohibited the giving or selling to, or bartering with, “any Indian,” or repairing guns and ammunition of “any Indian,” punishable by fine.Item Open Access Grants, Concessions, and Original Constitutions of the Province of New Jersey 341-42, ch 2, An Act concersning Slaves, &c. (2d ed. 1881).(General Publisher, 1694)Prohibited any slave from being permitted to carry any gun or pistol into the woods or plantations unless their owner accompanied them.Item Open Access Grants, Concessions, and Original Constitutions of the Province of New Jersey The Acts 289-90, ch. 9 An Act Against Wearing Swords, &c. (2d ed. 1881)(General Publisher, 1686)Prohibited the carrying “privately” of any pocket pistol, skeines, stilettoes, daggers or dirks, or other unusual or unlawful weapons by planters. Punishable by fine of five pounds for first conviction, and punishable by imprisonment for six months and a fine of ten pounds.Item Open Access The Fundamental Constitutions for the Province of East New Jersey in America, (1683) art. VII(General Publisher, 1683)Provided the state with the authority to arm and defend its forts,, castles, cities, and other places of defense. Also regulated the possession of firearms by citizensItem Open Access 1699 N. H. Acts and Laws ch. 1(General Publisher, 1699)Prohibited riding or going armed offensively to cause fear or affray of the people.Item Open Access The Charters And General Laws Of The Colony And Province Of Massachusetts Bay Page 343, Image 350 (1814) § 3(General Publisher, 1700)no person or persons whatsoever in any town or garrison, shall during the time of war, or of keeping a military watch in such town or garrison, presume to discharge or shoot off any gun or guns after the sun’s setting or before the sun’s rising, unless in case of alarm, approach of an enemy, or other necessary defense, on pain that every person, so offending, and being thereof convicted before one or more of his majesty’s justices of the peace, shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty shillings for each gun so discharged, on moiety thereof to and for the use of the poor of the town where the offence shall be committed, and the other moiety to him or them that shall inform or prosecute for the same...Item Open Access The Acts And Resolves, Public And Private, Of The Province Of The Massachusetts Bay Page 268, Image 298 (1869) § 3(General Publisher, 1697)That no person or persons whatsoever, in any town or garrison, shall presume to discharge or shoot off any gun or guns after the shutting in of the daylight in the evening, or before daylight in the morning, unless in case of alarm, approach of the enemy, or other necessary defense, on pain that every person so offending, and being thereof convicted before one or more of his majestie’s justices of the peace, shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten shillings, one moiety thereof to and for the use of the poor of the town where the offence is committed, and the other moiety to him or them that shall inform or prosecute for the same. And in case such offender shall not have wherewith to answer the said fine, or shall refuse or neglect to pay the same, then to be set in the stocks, not exceeding two hours’ time: provided, that this act shall remain and continue in force during the present war, and no longer.Item Open Access 1694 Mass. Laws 12, no. 6, An Act for the Punishing of Criminal Offenders.(General Publisher, 1694)Further it is Enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every Justice of the Peace in the County where the Offence is committed , may cause to be staid and arrested all Affrayers, Rioters, Disturbers, or Breakers of the Peace, and such as shall ride or go armed Offensively before any of their Majesties Justices, or other Their Officers or Ministers doing their Office or elsewhere.Item Open Access 1693 Mass. Acts 48, An Act for Regulating of the Militia, ch. 3, §§ 1, 5(General Publisher, 1693). That all male persons from sixteen years of age to sixty, (other than such as are herein after excepted), shall bear arms, and duly attend all musters and military exercises of the respective troops and companies where they are listed . . . § 5 That every listed solider and other householder (except troopers) shall be always provided with a well fixed firelock musket, or musket or bastard musket bore . . .