Connecticut
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The Connecticut Community serves as a dedicated repository for academic and research materials focusing on the historical, cultural, and legal developments within Connecticut. This community houses collections that reflect various jurisdictions, historical periods, and sectors, offering valuable insights for researchers, students, and professionals.
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Item Open Access 1901 Conn. Acts 602, Special Laws, § 20(General Publisher, 1901)Granted the county of New Haven the authority to regulate the discharge of firearms within the Borough. Also granted the authority to license, regulate, or prohibit the manufacture, keeping for sale, and use of fireworks, torpedoes, firecrackers, gunpowder, petrolemn, dynamite, or other explosive or inflammable substance.Item Open Access Franklin Bowditch Dexter, Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College: May 1745-May 1763, Annals, at 8 (1745)(General Publisher, 1745)Prohibited any scholar from keeping or discharging a gun or pistol in the College.Item Open Access Charter and Ordinances of the City of Waterbury, Connecticut, with Amendments Thereto: Revised to January 1, 1902 (Waterbury, CT: Mattatuck Press, 1902), 230. Good Order and Decency, § 8. Passed by Board of Aldermen March 15, 1897; Approved March 19, 1897(General Publisher, 1897)The mayor is authorized to issue permits related to the concealed carry of weapons. Licenses are granted on the mayor's judgment "when it is advisable..." The mayor shall have the power to revoke at his pleasure. Permits shall only be valid for one year.Item Open Access Charter and Ordinances of the City of Waterbury, Connecticut, with Amendments Thereto: Revised to January 1, 1902 (Waterbury, CT: Mattatuck Press, 1902), 230. Good Order and Decency, § 7. Passed by Board of Aldermen March 15, 1897; Approved March 19, 1897(General Publisher, 1897)Granted police the authority to arrest and search any person without a warrant on the reasonable belief they are armed with a concealed weapon.Item Open Access Charter and Ordinances of the City of Waterbury, Connecticut, with Amendments Thereto: Revised to January 1, 1902 (Waterbury, CT: Mattatuck Press, 1902), 230. Good Order and Decency, § 6. Passed by Board of Aldermen March 15, 1897; Approved March 19, 1897(General Publisher, 1897)Prohibited the possession of any steel, iron, or brass knuckles, or slung shot or weapon of similar character. Also prohibited the concealed carry of any weapon. Violators shall forfeit the weapon and pay a fine of not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense.Item Open Access J. M. Meech, Charter and Revised Ordinances of the City of Norwich With the Amendments Thereto, and Statutes of the State Relating to Municipal Corporations, in Force January 1st, 1877 Page 178, Page 185(General Publisher, 1876)Prohibited the discharge of any swivel, musket, fowling-piece, pistol, or other gun of any description within said city at a distance of less than "fifty rods" from any dwelling house, public highway, or street.Violators fined three dollars.Item Open Access A By-Law in relation to the Firing of Guns and Pistols, ch. 26 (1835) in The By-Laws of the City of New London, with the Statute Laws of the State of Connecticut Relative to Said City(General Publisher, 1835)Prohibited the discharge of any gun or pistol within the limits of the city. Violators fined two dollars. Minors who discharge guns or pistols, or explode fireworks, shall be held liable with the fine recoverable from the parent or guardian.Item Open Access Charles Stoers Hamilton, Charter and Ordinances of the City of New Haven, Together with Legislative Acts Affecting Said City, at 164, § 192 (1890)(General Publisher, 1890)Prohibited the concealed carrying of any metal knuckles, pistol, slungshot, stiletto, or similar weapons, absent written permission of the mayor or superintendent of police. Punishable by a fine of $5-50.Item Open Access Charter of the City of New Haven Page 142-143 (1881) §18(General Publisher, 1881)Prohibited the sale of any fixed ammunition, gun, pistol, or other mechnical contrivance arranged for the explosion of cartridge, or any fulminate to any child under the age of sixteen.Item Open Access Charter and By-Laws of the City of New Haven, June, 1865 Page 92-93.(General Publisher, 1865)That hereafter no person or persons shall, within the limits hereafter described, either directly or indirectly, sell and deliver any gunpowder, or have, store, or keep any quantity of gunpowder greater than one pound weight, without having obtained a license for that purpose from said Court of Common Council, in the manner herein prescribed.