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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Samuel Hazard, Pennsylvania Archives. Selected And Arranged From Original Documents In The Office Of The Secretary Of The Commonwealth, Conformably To Acts Of The General Assembly, February 15, 1851, & March 1, 1852, at 160, As to the Act for the better Govemnt[sic] of the City iof Phila. (1852)
(General Publisher, 1713)
This Act inflicts 5s penalty on persons riding a gallop and 10s for persons trotting, with Drays or their Teams in the streets, and 5th for suffering a Dog or a Bitch going at large; or firing a Gun without license
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The Documentary History Of The State Of New - York, at 222-223 (1849)
(General Publisher, 1690)
Prohibited the discharge of pistols and firearms in Albany
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“An Act for Preventing, Suppressing, and Punishing the Conspiracy and Insurrection of Negroes, and other Slaves,” Acts of Assembly, Passed in the Province of New York, From 1691, to 1718, at 144 (London, 1719)
(General Publisher, 1712)
Prohibition on “any Negro, Indian, Mulatto Slave” from having or using any gun or pistol outside of their master’s presence.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 citizens
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2 LAWS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: PROVINCE PERIOD 285 (Albert Stillman Batchellor ed., 1904) (enacted 1718).
(General Publisher, 1718)
Required every "householder" to have a musket, bandoliers, cartridge box, bullets, powder, cleaning tools, and a sword. Penalty of six schillings for each arm and two schillings for each other defect.
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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.
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The Charter Granted by Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary to the Inhabitants of the Providence of the Massachussets Bay in New England 272-73, An Act in Further Addition to an Act for Erecting a Powder House in Boston (1726).
(General Publisher, 1719)
... That, from and after the publication of this Act, no gunpowder shall be kept on board any ship, or other vessel, lying to or grounded at any wharf within the port of Boston. And if any gunpowder shall be found on board such ship or vessel lying aground, as aforesaid, such powder shall be liable to confiscation, and under the same penalty, as if it were found lying in any house or warehouse. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no powder be carried through any town upon trucks, under the penalty of ten shillings per barrel for every barrel of powder so conveyed, and so proportionally for smaller cask.

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