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7.52.010   Definitions.
   As used in this chapter:
   A.    "Discharge" means to cause any projectile to be expelled from a firearm by any blow or pressure, or by any explosion induced by the application of any blow or heat; "discharge" also means to cause the explosion in any firearm of any primer cap, blank cartridge or other explosive article or material without thereby causing any projectile to be emitted from such firearm;
   B.    "Firearm" means any rifle, shotgun, pistol, revolver, cannon, air gun, gas or other device which will upon the discharge thereof emit and propel or drive, for a distance of at least one hundred feet therefrom, a projectile from one end of a tubular segment of such device, or within which any primer cap, blank cartridge or other article or material may be caused to explode without thereby expelling any projectile therefrom. (Ord. 1881 § 2 (part), 1973).