New Jersey
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The New Jersey Community serves as a repository for academic and research materials related to the history, culture, and legal developments within New Jersey. This community gathers collections representing various jurisdictions, historical periods, and sectors, providing valuable resources for researchers, students, and professionals.
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Item Open Access 1934 N.J. Laws 394-95, ch. 155, §§ 1-5(General Publisher, 1934)Declares a person who possesses a machine gun or submachine gun a “gangster” and therefore, enemy of the state. Also declares a person who carries a deadly weapon without a permit a “gangster.” If convicted a “gangster,” punishable by fine up to $10,000 and/or imprisonment up to 20 years.Item Open Access 1927 N.J. Laws 743, ch. 321, § 2(General Publisher, 1927)Sentencing enhancement for possession of particular weapons while committing assault, robbery, larceny, burglary, breaking and entering. Weapons include revolvers, pistols, other firearms, blackjacks, slung-shots, billys, sandclubs, sandbags, bludgeons, metal knuckles, dagger, dirk, dangerous knife, stiletto, bomb, or other high explosive. Sentences are fixed at five, ten, and fifteen years for the first, second, and third offenses. Fourth offense is subject to life in prison.Item Open Access 1927 N.J. Laws 742, ch. 321, § 1(General Publisher, 1927)Prohibited a pawnbroker from selling or possessing for sale, loan, or to give away a machine gun, automatic rifle, revolver, pistol, or other firearm, or other instrument of any kind known as a blackjack, slungshot, billy, sandclub, sandbag, bludgeon, metal knuckles, dagger, dirk, dangerous knife, stiletto, bomb or other high explosive. Punishable as a high misdemeanor.Item Open Access 1927 N.J. Laws 180–81, ch. 95, §§ 1–2(General Publisher, 1927)Prohibited a pawnbroker from selling or possessing for sale, loan, or to give away a machine gun, automatic rifle, revolver, pistol, or other firearm, or other instrument of any kind known as a blackjack, slungshot, billy, sandclub, sandbag, bludgeon, metal knuckles, dagger, dirk, dangerous knife, stiletto, bomb or other high explosive. Punishable as a high misdemeanor.Item Open Access 1920 N.J. Laws 67, ch. 31, § 9(General Publisher, 1920)Prohibits hunting fowl or other animals with any shotgun or rifle holding more than two cartridges or that may be fired more than twice without reloading. Violators fined twenty dollars.Item Open Access 1916 N.J. Laws 275-76, ch. 130, §§ 1-2(General Publisher, 1916)Prohibited any individuals from going into the woods or fields with a firearm while intoxicated or under influence of drugs or alcohol. Punishable by revocation of hunting and fishing license.Item Open Access 1915 N.J. Laws 662-63, ch. 355, § 1(General Publisher, 1915)Prohibited noncitizens from owning or possessing a shotgun or rifle. Punishable by fine and confiscation and resale of firearm. Not applicable to noncitizens owning at least $2,000 worth of property in the state.Item Open Access 1914 N.J. Laws 65, ch. 43, § 1.(General Publisher, 1914)No license to hunt, pursue or kill with a gun or any fire-arm any of the game birds¸ wild animals or fowl of this State, shall be issued to any person under the age of fourteen years, and if any applicant for license shall misrepresent his age he shall be liable to a penalty of twenty dollars, to be sued for and recovered as other penalties under the fish and game laws.Item Open Access 1913 N.J. Laws 339, ch. 186, §§ 1-2.(General Publisher, 1913)It shall not be lawful for any person or persons, corporation or corporations, to manufacture, sell, barter, exchange, hire, loan, give, buy or have in possession or use or shoot any air gun, spring gun¸ or pistol, or other weapon of a similar nature in which the propelling force is a spring or air and ejecting a bullet or missile smaller than three eighths of an inch in diameter, with sufficient force to injure the person.Item Open Access 1912 N.J. Laws 366, ch. 225, § 4(General Publisher, 1912)Every person selling a pistol, revolver or other firearm of a size which may be concealed upon the person whether such seller is a retail dealer, pawnbroker or otherwise, shall keep a register in which shall be entered at the time of sale the date of sale, name, age, occupation and residence of every purchaser of such a pistol, revolver or other firearm, together with the calibre, make, model, manufacturer’s number or other mark of identification on such pistol, revolver or other firearm