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A law prohibiting the discharge or carrying of firearms, § 2, Clauses 1-8, in Ordinances and By-Laws of the Borough of Naugatuck (1901).

, | | 1901

"An Ordinance or By-Law Relating to Public Safety

SECTION 2

Be it Ordained by the Board of Warden and Burgesses of the Borough of Naugatuck:

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Concealed Weapons, §§ 6-8, Good Order and Decency in Charter and Ordinances of the City of Waterbury, Connecticut (1897).

| | 1897

        "Sec. 6. Every person who shall have in his possession in said city any steel, iron or brass knuckles, or any slung shot or weapon of similar character, or shall carry any weapon concealed upon his person, shall forfeit and pay a penalty of...

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Temporary Erections for Sale of Liquors or Gaming, Near Parade Ground, May Be Abated as Nuisances. In Public Acts Passed by the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut, Ch. 82, §5 (1859).

| | 1859

"Sec. 5. If any booth shed, tent, or other temporary erection, within one mile of any military parade-ground, muster-field or encampment, shall be used and occupied for the sale of spirituous or intoxicating liquor, or for the purpose of gambling, the ...

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An Act for regulating and ordering the Troops that are, or may be raised, for the Defence of this Colony, Article 19 (11 May, 1775).

| | 1775

"That whatsoever Commissioned Officer shall be found drunk on his Guard, Party, or other Duty under Arms, shall be cashiered for it: Any Non-Commissioned Officer or Soldier, so offending, shall suffer such Punishment as shall be ordered by the Sentence...

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Franklin Bowditch Dexter, Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College: May 1745-May 1763, Annals, at 8 (1745)

, , | , | 1745

14. If any Scholar Shall keep a Gun or Pistol, or Fire one in the College-Yard or College, or Shall Go a Gunning, Fishing, or Sailing, or Shall Go more than Two Miles from College upon any Occasion whatsoever : or Shall be Present at any Court, Electio...

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1923 Conn. Pub. Acts 3707, 3707-10

| | 1923

Sec. 5. No sale of any pistol or revolver shall be made except in the room, store or place described in the permit for the sale of pistols and revolvers, and such permit or a copy thereof certified by the authority issuing the same shall be exposed to ...

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1927 Conn. Acts 4286, An Act Concerning The Use of Shot Guns on Sundays by Members of Gun Clubs, ch. 214.

| | 1927

The provisions of section sixty-seven of chapter 222 of the public acts of 1923 are extended to apply to gun clubs are affiliated with the national rifle association of America and to the members of such gun clubs using shot guns; provided nothing in t...

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1923 Conn. Acts 3732, Unnaturalized Persons, ch. 259, § 17.

| | 1923

No alien resident in the United States shall hunt, capture or kill, any bird or quadruped and no such alien shall own or be possessed of any shot gun or rifle. The presence of any shot gun or rifle upon any premises or in any building or tent within th...

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1923 Conn. Pub. Acts 3707, An Act Concerning the Possession, Sale and Use of Pistols and Revolvers, ch. 252, § 3.

, | | 1923

The chief of police or, where there shall be no chief of police, the warden of the borough of the first selectman of the town, as the case may be, may, upon the application of any person, issue a permit in such form as may be prescribed by the superint...

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1911 Conn. Pub. Acts 1357, An Act Concerning the Use of Explosives in Connection with the Crime of Burglary, ch. 98.

| | 1911

Every person who, either in the daytime or in the night season, shall break and enter any building with intent to commit any crime therein and shall open or attempt to open any vault, safe, or other secure place, in such building, by the use of nitro-g...

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1930 Conn. Stat. 903, Dealing in Explosives; License., ch. 147, § 2644.

| | 1909

No person shall manufacture, store, sell, or deal in gunpowder or any material or compound . . . unless he shall first obtain from the commissioner of state police or the fire marshal of the town where such business is conducted a written license there...

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1901 Conn. Pub. Acts 602, § 20.

| | 1901

The warden and burgesses, when assembled according to law, shall have power to make, alter, repeal, and enforce such bylaws, orders, ordinances, and enactments as they deem suitable and proper, not inconsistent with this resolution or contrary to the l...

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1901 Conn. Acts 602, Speciak Laws, § 20.

| | 1901

The warden and burgesses, when assembled according to law, shall have power to make, alter, repeal, and enforce such bylaws, orders, ordinances, and enactments as they shall deem suitable and proper, not inconsistent with this resolution or contrary to...

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Charles Stoers Hamilton, Charter and Ordinances of the City of New Haven, Together with Legislative Acts Affecting Said City Page 164, Image 167 (1890) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1890

Good Order and Decency § 192. Every person who shall carry in said City, any steel or brass knuckles, pistol, or any slung shot, stiletto or weapon of similar character, or shall carry any weapon concealed on his person without permission of the Mayor...

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The Charter and By-Laws of the Borough of Wallingford Page 55, Image 60 (1882) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1882

By-Laws of the Borough of Wallingford. § 15. . . . the discharging any pistol, gun, cannon or other fire-arms, by any person or military company in any street, park or public ground, provided this section does not apply to the use of such weapons ...

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Charter of the City of New Haven Page 142-143, Image 241-242 (1881) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1881

Charter of the City of New Haven. Trade. § 18. No person shall sell to any child under the age of sixteen years, without the written consent of the parent or guardian of such child, any cartridge or fixed ammunition of which any fulminate is a compone...

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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 (1876) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1877

Ordinances of Norwich. § 15. No person or persons shall fire any swivel, musket, fowling-piece, pistol, or other gun of any description within said city at a less distance than fifty rods from any dwelling house, or public highway, or street witho...

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Charter and Ordinances of the City of Bridgeport: as Amended and Adopted Page 194 (1874) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1874

An Ordinance Relative to Gunpowder and Explosive Substances. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Bridgeport, § 1. No person shall have, or keep for sale or for any other purpose, within the limits of this city, any quantity of gunp...

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1872 Conn. Acts 108, An Act in Addition to an Act for the Preservation of Game, chap. 115, § 2.

| | 1872

No person shall at any time kill any wild duck, goose or brant with any instrument known as a punt gun or swivel, or with any other than such guns as are habitually raised at arms' length and fired from the shoulder, or shall use any instrument or gun ...

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Henry Dutton, A Revision of Swift’s Digest of the Laws of Connecticut. Also, Practice, Forms and Precedents, in Connecticut Page 564, Image 565 (Vol 1, 1871) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1871

Of Trespass on the Case. A person, before he trusts a gun with an incautious person, is bound to render it perfectly innoxious. Where the defendant negligently and imprudently entrusted a loaded gun to a young mulatto girl, who discharged it against th...

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1864 Conn. Acts 95, An Act In Addition To And In Alteration Of “An Act Relating To The Militia,” chap. 73, § 8.

| | 1864

It shall be the duty of the quartermaster general to provide a suitable armory for each company of active militia, upon a certificate from the adjutant general, that such company has organized according to law, and has made requisition for an armory, t...

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