As used in this chapter:
(a) "Deadly weapon" means any instrument, device or thing capable of inflicting death, and designed or specially adapted for use as a weapon, or possessed, carried or used as a weapon.
(b) (1) "Firearm" means any deadly weapon capable of expelling or propelling one or more projectiles by the action of an explosive or combustible propellant. "Firearm" includes an unloaded firearm, and any firearm that is inoperable but that can readily be rendered operable.
(2) When determining whether a firearm is capable of expelling or propelling one or more projectiles by the action of an explosive or combustible propellant, the trier of fact may rely upon circumstantial evidence, including, but not limited to, the representations and actions of the individual exercising control over the firearm.
(c) "Handgun" means any of the following:
(1) Any firearm that has a short stock and is designed to be held and fired by the use of a single hand;
(2) Any combination of parts from which a firearm of a type described in subsection (c)(1) of this section can be assembled.
(d) "Semi-automatic firearm" means any firearm designed or specially adapted to fire a single cartridge and automatically chamber a succeeding cartridge ready to fire, with a single function of the trigger.
(e) "Automatic firearm" means any firearm designed or specially adapted to fire a succession of cartridges with a single function of the trigger.
(f) "Sawed-off firearm" means a shotgun with a barrel less than eighteen inches long, or a rifle with a barrel less than sixteen inches long, or a shotgun or rifle less than twenty-six inches long overall.
(g) "Zip-gun" means any of the following:
(1) Any firearm of crude and extemporized manufacture;
(2) Any device, including without limitation a starter's pistol, that is not designed as a firearm, but that is specially adapted for use as a firearm;
(3) Any industrial tool, signalling device or safety device, that is not designed as a firearm, but that as designed is capable of use as such, when possessed, carried or used as a firearm.
(h) "Explosive device" means any device designed or specially adapted to cause physical harm to persons or property by means of an explosion, and consisting of an explosive substance or agency and a means to detonate it. "Explosive device" includes without limitation any bomb, any explosive demolition device, any blasting cap or detonator containing an explosive charge, and any pressure vessel that has been knowingly tampered with or arranged so as to explode.
(i) "Incendiary device" means any firebomb, and any device designed or specially adapted to cause physical harm to persons or property by means of fire, and consisting of an incendiary substance or agency and a means to ignite it.
(j) "Ballistic knife" means a knife with a detachable blade that is propelled by a spring-operated mechanism.
(k) "Dangerous ordnance" means any of the following, except as provided in subsection (l) hereof:
(1) Any automatic or sawed-off firearm, zip-gun or ballistic knife;
(2) Any explosive device or incendiary device;
(3) Nitroglycerin, nitrocellulose, nitrostarch, PETN, cyclonite, TNT, picric acid and other high explosives; amatol, tritonal, tetrytol, pentolite, pecretol, cyclotol and other high explosive compositions; plastic explosives; dynamite, blasting gelatin, gelatin dynamite, sensitized ammonium nitrate, liquid-oxygen blasting explosives, blasting powder and other blasting agents; and any other explosive substance having sufficient brisance or power to be particularly suitable for use as a military explosive, or for use in mining, quarrying, excavating or demolitions;
(4) Any firearm, rocket launcher, mortar, artillery piece, grenade, mine, bomb, torpedo or similar weapon, designed and manufactured for military purposes, and the ammunition for that weapon;
(5) Any firearm muffler or suppressor;
(6) Any combination of parts that is intended by the owner for use in converting any firearm or other device into a dangerous ordnance.
(l) "Dangerous ordnance" does not include any of the following:
(1) Any firearm, including a military weapon and the ammunition for that weapon, and regardless of its actual age, that employs a percussion cap or other obsolete ignition system, or that is designed and safe for use only with black powder;
(2) Any pistol, rifle or shotgun, designed or suitable for sporting purposes, including a military weapon as issued or as modified, and the ammunition for that weapon unless the firearm is an automatic or sawed-off firearm;
(3) Any cannon or other artillery piece that, regardless of its actual age, is of a type in accepted use prior to 1887, has no mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic or other system for absorbing recoil and returning the tube into battery without displacing the carriage, and is designed and safe for use only with black powder;
(4) Black powder, priming quills and percussion caps possessed and lawfully used to fire a cannon of a type defined in subsection (l)(3) hereof during displays, celebrations, organized matches or shoots, and target practice, and smokeless and black powder, primers and percussion caps possessed and lawfully used as a propellant or ignition device in small-arms or small-arms ammunition;
(5) Dangerous ordnance that is inoperable or inert and cannot readily be rendered operable or activated, and that is kept as a trophy, souvenir, curio or museum piece.
(6) Any device that is expressly excepted from the definition of a destructive device pursuant to the "Gun Control Act of 1968," 82 Stat. 1213, 18 U.S.C.921(a)(4), as amended, and regulations issued under that Act.
(7) Any firearm with an overall length of at least twenty-six inches that is approved for sale by the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives under the “Gun Control Act of 1968", 82 Stat. 1213, 18 U.S.C. 921(a)(3), but that is found by the Bureau not to be regulated under the “National Firearms Act”, 68A Stat. 725 (1934), 26 U.S.C. 5845(a).
(m) “Air gun” means a hand pistol or rifle that propels a projectile by means of releasing compressed air, carbon dioxide or other gas.
(n) “Spring-operated gun” means a hand pistol or rifle that propels a projectile of any size by means of a spring.
(Ord. 80-86. Passed 12-1-80.)
(o) “Electronic stun weapon” means a device, instrument, article or thing that is capable of producing an electrical charge of sufficient magnitude to temporarily immobilize or incapacitate, cause physical injury or illness to, or cause the death of a person and which has been manufactured as, including crude or extemporized manufacture or assembly, or which as designed is capable of use as, or specially adapted for use as, such a device, instrument, article or thing.
(1) “Class one electronic stun weapon” means an electronic stun weapon capable of causing the death of a person.
(2) “Class two electronic stun weapon” means an electronic stun weapon capable of causing injury or illness, including physiological impairment, to a person but is not capable of causing the death of a person.
(Ord. 85-29. Passed 5-6-85.)
(p) “Kama” means any device, instrument, article or thing consisting of a handle with a curried single edged blade affixed at the end of the handle.
(q) “Ninja star” or “shuriken” means any device, instrument, article or thing in the shape of a star, cross, triangle, swastika or other shape, with points radiating from the center, used in the martial harm to persons, and manufactured as, including crude or extemporized manufacture or assembly, or which as designed is capable of use as, or specially adapted for use as, such a device, instrument, article or thing, or possessed, carried or used as such a device, instrument, article or thing.
(r) “Nunchuck” means two pieces of hardwood held together by a piece of string, leather or chain.
(s) “Sai” means a piece of steel or heavy metal with a pointed or blunted end and two prongs that extend down from the blade to form a handle.
(t) “Staff” means a hardwood stick which is designed and intended to be used to strike, to block, to jab, to hold and to throw another person.
(u) “Tonfa” means a hardwood shaft with a handle affixed to the shaft.
(Ord. 86-69. Passed 12-7-87.)
(v) “Replica or facsimile of a firearm” means any device or object made of plastic, wood, metal or any other material which is a replica, facsimile or toy version of, or is otherwise recognizable as, a pistol, revolver, shotgun, sawed-off shotgun, rifle, machine gun, rocket launcher or any other firearm. As used in this chapter, “replica or facsimile of a firearm” includes, but is not limited to, toy guns, movie props, hobby models (either in kit form or fully assembled), starter pistols, air guns, inoperative firearms or any other device which might reasonably be perceived to be a real firearm.
(Ord. 89-20. Passed 3-6-89.)
(w) “Misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year” does not include any of the following:
(1) Any federal or state offense pertaining to antitrust violations, unfair trade practices, restraints of trade or other similar offenses relating to the regulation of business practices;
(2) Any misdemeanor offense punishable by a term of imprisonment of two years or less.
(x) “Alien registration number” means the number issued by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Agency that is located on the alien’s permanent resident card and may also be commonly referred to as the “USCIS number” or the “alien number”.
(y) “Active duty” has the same meaning as defined in 10 U.S.C. 101.
(ORC 2923.11)