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Originally Posted by Mike

John is in Allentown all week OCing about town in case anybody want to say hello - jpierce@speedscape.com.

The police might want to say hello...I just read in another thread (that I cannot find) about a 1962 ordinance against carrying firearms in Allentown...

=D

See:
http://www.allentownpa.gov/Governmen...4/Default.aspx
Specifically Part 7, Item 5...

ARTICLE 734
WEAPONS
734.01 No Carrying or Discharging of Firearms or Weapons
734.02 Exceptions
734.03 Police Action Against Violators
734.99 Penalty
Discharge of Weapons – 3rd Class §2403 (26) (53 P.S. §2403 926)
Uniform Firearms Act – 18 P.S. §6101 et seq.
734.01 NO CARRYING OR DISCHARGING OF FIREARMS OR WEAPONS
No person shall use, carry or discharge firearms of any kind, air rifles, spring guns, bows and arrows, slings or any other forms of weapons potentially inimical to wildlife and dangerous to human safety within the limits of the City or upon any property owned by the City. (9828 §1 6/19/62)
734.02 EXCEPTIONS
This regulation shall not apply to the use of the within-mentioned weapons at indoor or outdoor ranges approved by the Chief of Police or to licensed hunters carrying such weapons upon leaving or returning to the City from unlawful hunting beyond the City limits. (9828 §2 6/19/62)
734.03 POLICE ACTION AGAINST VIOLATORS
The Chief of Police shall have the right to seize, take, possess, remove or destroy any weapons herein mentioned involved in a violation of the provisions of this article. (9828 §3 6/19/62)
734.99 PENALTY
Any person violating any of the provisions of this article shall be fined not more than One Thousand ($1,000) Dollars or imprisoned more than ninety (90) days, or both. (11995 §1 2/21/73; 13034 §5 3/6/91)