Pistol licences by state

The licence to keep or carry a pistol, granted by a judge, the police or the town: on good character and a proper cause, for a year at most.

Bearer prints it for 2 offices: Commonwealth of Massachusetts, State of New York. Each is read off a document of the time or reconstructed on the country's law, and says which.

Bearer makes an investigator's papers for Call of Cthulhu and any 1920s or 1930s tabletop campaign: the passport a consul would have filled in, with the visas and frontier stamps a campaign leaves in it, and the permits, certificates and tickets of the period, to print or to share.

An example

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Every office Bearer prints it for

Each version in full

• The Massachusetts license to carry
• The New York pistol licence

Sources

• Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Tercentenary Edition of the General Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (the General Laws as amended before 1 January 1932), vol. II, chapter 140, sections 129A, 130, 131, 131A, s. 131: a license to carry a pistol or revolver in the commonwealth or to possess therein a machine gun, to an applicant residing or having a place of business within the jurisdiction, except an unnaturalized person, a felon or one convicted of the unlawful use or sale of drugs; issued by the justice of a court, the board of police or mayor of a city, the selectmen of a town or the commissioner of public safety; for a term not to exceed one year, revocable at will; issued on forms furnished by the commissioner, a copy sent to him within one week (1922, 485; 1926, 395; 1927, 326); s. 131A: a permit to purchase, rent or lease a pistol or revolver, on the commissioner's forms, valid for not more than ten days (1926, 395); s. 129A: no unnaturalized foreign-born person may own or possess a firearm without a permit to carry (1922, 485) (read directly)
• Commonwealth of Massachusetts; on the Internet Archive, Acts and Resolves of Massachusetts, 1922: chapter 485, An Act relative to the sale and carrying of firearms (approved 29 May 1922), and the Constitution, Amendments, art. XLVIII, The Referendum, I, c. 485 s. 9: G. L. c. 140 § 131 struck out and replaced (the justice of a court or a trial justice, the board of police or mayor of a city, the selectmen of a town, or the commissioner of public safety, may issue a license to carry a pistol or revolver in the commonwealth if it appears that the applicant has good reason to fear an injury to his person or property or for any other proper purpose, and that he is a suitable person; for a term not to exceed one year, revocable at will; issued on forms furnished by the commissioner of public safety, a copy sent to him within one week); s. 11: every license issued before expires on 1 January 1923. Art. XLVIII: no law passed by the general court shall take effect earlier than ninety days after it has become a law, excepting emergency laws (read directly)
• Commonwealth of Massachusetts; on the Internet Archive, Acts and Resolves of Massachusetts, 1926: chapter 395, An Act regulating the sale, rental and leasing of certain firearms and prohibiting loans of money thereon (approved 29 May 1926), s. 3: new G. L. c. 140 § 131A, a permit to purchase, rent or lease a pistol or revolver, to a person qualified for a license and not a minor, if the purchase is for a proper purpose, revocable at will, issued on forms furnished by the commissioner of public safety, valid for not more than ten days after issue, a copy to the commissioner within one week; § 131B, no loan on a pistol or revolver; s. 1, § 123, eighth and ninth conditions: the dealer takes up the permit and endorses on it the time and place of the sale (read directly)
• Commonwealth of Massachusetts; on the Internet Archive, Acts and Resolves of Massachusetts, 1927: chapter 326 (approved 27 April 1927), s. 1: a machine gun defined (any gun of small arm calibre designed for rapid fire and operated by a mechanism, or any gun which operates automatically after the first shot); s. 3: § 131 amended, a license to carry a pistol or revolver or to possess a machine gun, refused to an unnaturalized person, a person convicted of a felony or of the unlawful use or sale of drugs, or a minor (save one of fifteen or over employed by a bank or public utility, his application endorsed by his employer); a term not to exceed one year; revocation notified in writing to the commissioner; forms furnished by the commissioner (read directly)
• Commonwealth of Massachusetts; on the Internet Archive, Acts and Resolves of Massachusetts, 1925: chapter 284, An Act relative to the sale, rental, leasing and carrying of certain firearms (approved 29 April 1925), s. 4: G. L. c. 140 § 131 replaced: the license refused to an unnaturalized person, a person convicted of a felony or of the unlawful use or sale of drugs, or a minor other than one of fifteen or over employed by a bank, public utility corporation or like business whose application is endorsed by his employer; the applicant to reside or have a place of business within the issuing jurisdiction; revocation notified in writing to the commissioner of public safety (read directly)
• State of New York; in The Penal Law and Code of Criminal Procedure of the State of New York (Cook, 1914), archive.org, New York Penal Law, § 1897, Carrying and use of dangerous weapons, as amended by L. 1911 ch. 195 (the Sullivan Act) and L. 1913 ch. 608, no pistol or revolver of a size to be concealed possessed without a written licence (a misdemeanor), none carried concealed without one (a felony); licences issued by a magistrate to a householder (in his dwelling), a merchant or storekeeper (in his place of business), a messenger of a bank or express company (carried concealed while in that employ), and to have and carry concealed without regard to employment on proof of good moral character and proper cause; to an alien or a non-resident only by a judge of a court of record, stating the particular reason and the names of those certifying to the applicant's good moral character; a licence may be limited as to its expiration and is good throughout the state (read directly)

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