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City of Trenton, New Jersey, Charter and Ordinances 390, An Ordinance providing for the government and protection of public parks and squares of the city of Trenton (1903)

, | | 1903

8.  No person shall carry firearms or shoot birds in said park or squares, or within fifty yards thereof, or throw stones or other missiles therein.

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1927 N.J. Laws 742

| | 1927
  1. No retail dealer shall sell or expose for sale, or have in his possession with intent to use, any of the firearms or instruments enumerated in section one hereof without being licensed as hereafter provided. The Common Pleas judge of ...

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1934 N.J. Laws 394-95, A Further Supplement to an Act Entitled “An Act for the Punishment of Crimes,” ch. 155, §§ 1-5.

| | 1934

1. A gangster is hereby declared to be an enemy of the state. 2. Any person in whose possession is found a machine gun or a submachine gun is declared to be a gangster; provided, however, that nothing in this section contained shall be construed to app...

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1927 N.J. Laws 742, A Further Supplement to an Act Entitled, “An Act for the Punishment of Crimes,” ch. 321, § 1.

| | 1927

1. No pawnbroker shall hereafter sell or have in his possession for sale or to loan or give away, any machine gun, automatic rifle, revolver, pistol, or other firearm, or other instrument of any kind known as a blackjack, slungshot, billy, sandclub, sa...

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1927 N.J. Laws 180-81, A Supplement to an Act Entitled “An Act for the Punishment of Crimes,” ch. 95, §§ 1-2.

| | 1927

1. The term “machine gun or automatic rifle,” as used in this act, shall be construed to mean any weapon, mechanism or instrument not requiring that the trigger be pressed for each shot and having a reservoir, belt or other means of storing...

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1920 N.J. Laws 67, An Act to Amend an Act Entitled, “An Act for the Protection of Certain Kinds of Birds, Game and Fish, to Regulate Their Method of Capture, and Provide Open and Close Seasons for Such Capture and Possession,” ch. 31, § 9.

| | 1920

It shall be unlawful to use in hunting fowl or animals of any kind any shotgun or rifle holding more than two cartridges at one time, or that may be fired more than twice without reloading, or to use any silencer on any gun rifle or firearm when huntin...

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1916 N.J. Laws 275-76, An Act to Prohibit Any Person from Going into the Woods or Fields with a Gun or Other Firearm when Intoxicated, or under the Influence of any Drug or Intoxicating Liquor, ch. 130, §§ 1-2.

| | 1916

1. It shall be unlawful for any person to go into the woods or fields at any time with a gun or firearm when intoxicated or under the influence of any drug or drugs or of intoxicating liquor. 2. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act sh...

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1914 N.J. Laws 65, Supplement to an Act Entitled “An Act to License Citizens of this State to Hunt and Pursue Wild Animals and Fowl,” ch. 43, § 1.

| | 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...

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1913 N.J. Laws 339, An Act to Prohibit the Manufacture, Sale, Use and Possession of Air Guns and Spring Guns, ch. 186, §§ 1-2.

| | 1913

1. 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...

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1909 N.J. Laws 179-80, A Supplement to an Act Entitled “An Act for the Punishment of Crime,” ch. 113, § 1.

| | 1909

Any person who shall have in his or her possession any dynamite, nitro-glycerine, guncotton or other explosive of any nature whatsoever, with intent to injure any person or persons or with intent to unlawfully injure any property, with, by, or by any u...

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1906 N.J. Laws 699-700, An Act to Amend an Act Entitled “An Act for the Protection of Certain Kinds of Birds, Game and Fish, to Regulate Their Method of Capture, and Provide Open and Close Seasons for Such Capture and Possession,” ch. 317, § 1.

| | 1906

It shall be unlawful for three years after the passage of this act for any person to gun for or to take, or attempt to take, kill, injure or destroy, or to have in possession any wild deer, be the same buck, doe or fawn, under penalty of one hundred do...

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1905 N.J. Laws 324-25, A Supplement to an Act Entitled “An Act for the Punishment of Crimes,” ch. 172, § 1.

| | 1905

Any person who shall carry any revolver, pistol or other deadly, offensive or dangerous weapon or firearm or any stiletto, dagger or razor or any knife with a blade of five inches in length or over concealed in or about his clothes or person, shall be ...

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1903-1904 N.J. Laws 178, A Further Supplement to an Act Entitled “An Act Concerning Disorderly Persons,” ch. 68, § 1.

| | 1904

Any person trespassing upon any marsh, swamp or meadow grounds lying within the bounds of any meadow bank company, organized or to be organized under the provisions of the act . . . where the owners and possessors of the said marsh, swamp or meadow lan...

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1903 N.J. Laws 671, An Act Concerning Railroads, ch. 257, § 49.

| | 1903

No person shall be entitled to carry or require any company to carry on any railroad any aqua fortis, oil or vitriol, gunpowder, nitro-glycerine, matches, or other goods of a dangerous nature¸ and if any person sends by the railway any such goods...

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1903 N.J. Laws 337-38, An Act to Amend an Act Entitled “An Act for the Punishment of Crimes,” ch. 169, § 1.

| | 1903

It shall not be lawful to sell, barter, exchange, hire or loan to any person under the age of fifteen years, any gun, pistol, toy pistol, or other firearms, or for any person under the age of fifteen years to purchase, barter or exchange any gun, pisto...

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1902 N.J. Laws 294, An Act Relating to, Regulating and Providing for the Government of Cities, ch. 107, § 14, pt. 33.

| | 1902

. . . [T]o regulate or prohibit the manufacture, sale, storage or use of fireworks and the use of firearms in such city; to regulate or prohibit the manufacture, sale, storage, keeping, or conveying of gunpowder, kerosene, benzine [sic], gasoline, burn...

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1902 N.J. Laws 780, An Act to Require Non-residents to Secure Licenses before Hunting or Gunning within the State of New Jersey and Providing Penalties for Violation of Its Provisions, ch. 263, § 1.

, , | | 1902

Every non-resident of this state shall be required to take out a license before he shall begin hunting or gunning in this state, which license the several county clerks of this state, and each of them, are hereby authorized and required to issue upon t...

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1901 N J. Laws 265, An Act for the Protection of Certain Kinds of Birds, Game and Fish, to Regulate Their Method of Capture and Provide Open and Close Seasons for Such Capture and Possesion, ch. 120, § 14.

| | 1901

It shall be unlawful to hunt with a hound or hounds, or with fire-arms or weapons of any kind, or to carry a gun in the woods or fields or on the waters on the Sabbath day, commonly called Sunday, under a penalty of twenty dollars for each offence.

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1900 N J. Laws 395-96, A Supplement to an Act Entitled “An Act Concerning Disorderly Persons,” ch. 158, § 1.

| | 1900

Any person or persons who shall cast or throw any stick, stone, pebble, or other substance, or who shall shoot from any air gun, pistol or rifle any shot or ball at, against or into any trolley car, street railway car or steam railroad car . . . shall ...

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1886 N.J. Laws 358, An Act to Regulate the Manufacture and Storage of Gun Powder, Dynamite and Other Explosives, § 1.

| | 1886

. . . nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prevent any person or persons from storing in any fire-proof magazines any quantity of gun powder or blasting powder not exceeding in quantity two thousand pounds, within the said distance of one th...

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1886 N.J. Laws 358, An Act to Regulate the Manufacture and Storage of Gun Powder, Dynamite and Other Explosive, ch. 250, § 1.

| | 1886

That no person or persons or corporations shall after the passage of this act, be permitted within this state to erect, have or maintain, or cause to be erected, had or maintained any establishment, storehouse or building in which in which shall be man...

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1885 N.J. Laws 52, An Amendment to an Act to Prevent Vending, Using, or Exploding of Guns, Pistols, Toy Pistols, or Other Fire-Arms to or by Persons under the Age of Fifteen Years in this State, ch. 44, § 2.

| | 1885

That it shall not be lawful to sell, hire or loan to any person under the age of fifteen years any gun, pistol, toy pistol, or other fire-arms; or for any person under the age of fifteen years to purchase, barter or exchange any gun, pistol, toy pistol...

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