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• 1 2021-09-20T15:56:06+00:00 New York Penal Law, § 1897-1898: Carrying and use of dangerous weapons. 9 plain 2023-11-02T03:49:19+00:00 Laws of New York State, 1921:
  
  "§ 1897 Carrying and use of dangerous weapons.
  1. A person who attempts to use against another, or who carries, or possesses any instrument or weapon of the kind commonly known as a blackjack, slungshot, billy, sand club, sandbag or metal knuckles, bludgeon, or who, with intent to use the same unlawfully against another carries or possesses a dagger, dirk, dangerous knife, razor, stiletto, or any other dangerous or deadly instrument, or weapon, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and if he has been previously convicted of any crime he is guilty of a felony.
  2. A person who carries or possesses a bomb or bombshell, or who, with intent to use the same unlawfully against the person or property of another, carries or possesses any explosive substance, is guilty of a felony.
  3. Any person under the age of sixteen years, who shall have, carry, or have in his possession, any of the articles named or described in the last section, which is forbidden therein to offer, sell, loan, lease or give to him, shall be guilty of juvenile delinquency.
  4. Any person over the age of sixteen years, who shall have in his possession in any city, village or town of this state, any pistol, revolver or other firearm of a size which may be concealed upon the person, without a written license therefor, issued to him as hereinafter prescribed, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and if he has been previously convicted of any crime he shall be guilty of a felony.
  5. Any person over the age of sixteen years, who shall have or carry concealed upon his person in any city, village or town of this state, any pistol, revolver, or other firearm without a written license therefor, issued as hereinafter prescribed and licensing such possession and concealment, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and if he has been previously convicted of any crime he shall be guilty of a felony.
  6. Any person not a citizen of the United States, unless authorized by license issued as hereinafter prescribed, who shall have or carry firearms, or any dangerous or deadly weapons in any place, at any time, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and if he had been previously convicted of any crime he shall be guilty of a felony."
  (Sections 7-13 relate to issuing licenses to have and carry concealed firearms)
  
  Consolidated Laws of the State of New York, 1909, ch. 88
  
  "§ 1898. Possession, presumptive evidence. The possession, by any person other than a public officer, of any of the weapons specified in the last section, concealed or furtively carried on the person, is presumptive evidence of carrying, or concealing, or possessing, with intent to use the same in violation of that section."

  New York Penal Law