(A) It shall be unlawful for any person within the city to carry on his or her person or transport in any vehicle any firearm or ammunition without a permit for carrying, except:
(1) Any unloaded firearm being transported by a person not in a vehicle directly to or from his or her home, place of business, gun dealer, gunsmith or place of target practice, gun club assembly or hunting area, or to or from any place or gathering set forth in § 130.18 in a secured container without ammunition in the container.
(2) Transportation of an unloaded firearm in the locked trunk of a vehicle, or if such vehicle shall not have a trunk, secured in the farthest rear portion of the vehicle in an area not normally occupied by driver or passengers.
(3) An unloaded long gun dismantled or transported in the manner required by state statutes.
(B) The provisions of this section shall not be applicable to the transport of firearms by persons who are regularly engaged in the lawful manufacture, distribution or sale at retail or wholesale of such guns, or the agents of any of them or to law enforcement officers or to military personnel while in the course of their duties. Nor shall such provisions apply to any person who is a non-resident of the city who is the holder of a permit to carry a firearm upon his or her person or in a vehicle; provided, that such permit was duly and properly issued by the city of his or her residence, and provided such city be situated in the state, and has an ordinance or regulation identical or similar in nature to the provisions of this subchapter.
(Prior Code, § 3.08) Penalty, see § 130.99