(a) Sale or Transfer. No person shall sell, give, lend or otherwise transfer any air rifle to any person under eighteen years of age, except where the relationship of parent and child, guardian and ward, or adult instructor and pupil, exists between such person and the person under eighteen years of age.
(b) Carrying or Discharging.
(1) No person under eighteen years of age shall carry any air rifle on the highways or public lands unless accompanied by an adult, except that a person under eighteen years of age may carry such rifle unloaded in a suitable case or securely wrapped.
(2) No person shall discharge any air rifle from or across any highway or public land or any public place, except on a properly constructed target range.
(c) Exceptions.
(1) Nothing in this section shall make it unlawful for any person under eighteen years of age to have in his or her possession any air rifle, if it is:
A. Kept within his or her domicile;
B. Used by the person under eighteen years of age and he or she is a duly enrolled member of any club, team or society organized for educational purposes and maintaining as part of its facilities or having written permission to use an indoor or outdoor rifle range under the supervision, guidance and instruction of a responsible adult, and then only if such air rifle is actually being used in connection with the activities of such club, team or society under the supervision of a responsible adult; or
C. Used in or on any private grounds or residence under circumstances when such air rifle can be fired, discharged or operated in such a manner as not to endanger persons or property, and then only if it is used in such a manner as to prevent the projectile from transversing any grounds or space outside the limits of such grounds or residence.
(2) Nothing in this section shall prohibit sales of air rifles:
A. By wholesale dealers or jobbers;
B. To be shipped out of the Commonwealth;
C. To be used at a target range operated in accordance with paragraph (c)(1) hereof or by members of the Armed Services of the United States or veterans' organizations.
(d) Seizure. Any law enforcement officer may seize, take, remove or cause to be removed, at the expense of the owner, all air rifles used or offered for sale in violation of this section.
(e) Definition. As used in this section "air rifle" means any air gun, air pistol, spring gun, spring pistol, BB gun, or any implement that is not a firearm, which impels a pellet of any kind with a force that can reasonably be expected to cause bodily harm.
(Ord. 4394. Passed 9-10-86.)