Ownership of Firearms by Foreign-Born Residents

Shull, Deputy Attorney General,

— You ask to be advised whether the City of Pittston may recover a fine for violation of a city ordinance forbidding an unnaturalized foreign-born resident within the city to own or be in possession of a shotgun, rifle, pistol or other firearm. The ordinance to which you make reference was passed by the city council April 6, 1931. An examination of the ordinance will disclose that the four sections of which it is comprised are almost verbatim reproductions of sections 902, 903 and 904 of The Game Law of May 24, 1923, P. L. 359. The ordinance attaches precisely…