(a) No person shall engage in the business of selling, or sell or give away to any person within the City, a pistol, revolver, derringer, bowie knife, dirk or other weapon of like character, which can be concealed on the person, without securing a permit to do so as provided in this chapter as well as a special use permit as explained in Section 1359.06 of the Codified Ordinances, and no person having secured such a permit shall sell or give away any such weapon to any person within this City who has not secured a permit from the Police Chief to purchase such weapon in the manner provided in this chapter.
(b) For the purposes of this chapter, the term “firearm” includes a gun, pistol, revolver, rifle or any device designed to be used as a weapon from which is expelled through a barrel a projectile by the force of any explosion or other form of combustion.
(c) The requirement for a police permit is in addition to the requirement under Section 1359.06 of the Codified Ordinances for a special use permit for sale of any of the types of weapons and/or firearms as described above. No person shall engage in firearm sales activity without a special use permit from the City Planning and Zoning Commission and a police permit.
(Ord. 9986. Passed 4-6-53; Ord. 188-2004. Passed 11-1-04.)