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Origins of the New York Sullivan Act
Here. It's the memoirs of George P. Lebrun, New York City coroner at the time. He says that he wrote it and convinced "Big Tim" Sullivan to push it.
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I would love it if it could be down loaded and read as a PDF. Always was interested in the Sullivan Act as I grew up in NY and the usual thing was Sullivan was on the payroll of one of the major NYC gangs and set it up so that gang hot permits to carry while the others didn't so it made it easier to harass them and take their weapons
I was told Sullivan Act came into being for the NYC Irish held most the police positions, and the guns...And they didn't want to Italians to obtain either. Labor Movement was very active then, and Sullivan Act was a method to control the labor organizers.
And just why could NY pass such an act in the face of the 2nd:
BECAUSE the courts.
Barron(1833)