At 10:28 PM -0600 9/20/04, Clayton E. Cramer wrote: > When I was at the Hagley Library, I found "An act, further regulating the >storage, safe keeping, and transportation of gunpowder, in the town of >Boston, together with the rules and regulations of the firewards, relative >to the same." published in 1821. This was a Boston city ordinance that was >certainly intended to promote "Prudent Storage" of gunpowder. On p. 1, it >prohibits keeping within town, on any wharf, or on board ship, more than >five pounds of gunpowder, with exemptions for those "on military duty in >the public service of the United States, or of this Commonwealth...." To >sell gunpowder also required a license from the firewardens. On p. 2, the >firewardens are given authority to regulate the transportation and storage >of gunpowder by licensed dealers. On p. 7, the implementing regulations >prohibited licensed retailers of gunpowder from having more than 25 pounds >"in the place or building designated in their license" and no individual >container could hold more than twelve and a half pounds. Wholesalers on >pp. 7-8 were allowed to store 100 pounds, with detailed specification of >containers. Dealers were required to have a warning sign identifying their >building as being a gunpowder dealer. All other gunpowder was to be kept >in the public magazines (p. 8)--although it appears that this applied only >to the licensed dealers, not to private parties having quantities under >five pounds in their homes.
Curiously, this is very similar to today's state regulations http://www.goal.org/FAQ/powder.htm except that they spend much more verbiage regulating private citizens. -- Escape the Rat Race for Peace, Quiet, and Miles of Desert Beauty Take a Sanity Break at The Bunkhouse at Liberty Haven Ranch http://libertyhavenranch.com _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
