As used in this chapter;
(a) “Automatic firearm” means any firearm designed or specially adapted to fire a succession of cartridges with a single function of the trigger.
(b) “Ballistic knife” means a knife with a detachable blade that is propelled by a spring-operated mechanism.
(c) “Chief of Police” means the Chief of the Lakewood Division of Police or his designee.
(d) “Commercial District” is established to provide for commercial uses that generally require independent, free-standing buildings, larger parking areas, and may have unique traffic patterns because of such factors as drive-in facilities.
(e) “Dangerous ordnance” means any of the following, except as provided in subsection (f) 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 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.
(f) “Dangerous ordnance” does not include any of the following:
(1) Exemptions covered by Section 549.98;
(2) Any firearm, including a military weapon and the ammunition for that weapon, and regardless of its actual age, which employs a percussion cap or other obsolete ignition system, or that is designed and safe for use only with black powder;
(3) Any pistol, rifle or shotgun, designed or suitable for sporting purposes, including a military weapon as used or as modified and the ammunition for that weapon, unless the firearm is an automatic or sawed-off firearm;
(4) Any cannon or other artillery piece which, 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;
(5) Black powder, priming quills and percussion caps possessed and lawfully used to fire a cannon of a type defined in paragraph (f)(4) 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 pro-pellant or ignition device in small-arms or small-arms ammunition;
(6) Dangerous ordnance which is inoperable or inert and cannot readily be rendered operable or activated, and which is kept as a trophy, souvenir, curio or museum piece;
(7) 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.
(g) “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.
(h) “Dealer” means any person, firm or corporation licensed by the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms engaged in the business of selling or trading handguns at wholesale or retail within the limits of the City, whether as the principle business of such person, firm or corporation, or in addition thereto.
(i) “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.
(j) “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 which is inoperable but which can readily be rendered operable.
(k) “Handgun” means any of the following:
(1) Any firearm that has 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 division (k)(l) can be assembled.
(1) “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.
(m) “Nonresident” means any person who does not have a place of residence within the limits of the City of Lakewood.
(n) “Person” means any individual, corporation, company, association, firm, partnership, club or society, including wholesale and retain gun dealers.
(o) “Registration receipt” means a handgun registration receipt issued pursuant to Section 549.25.
(p) “Resident” means any person who has a place of residence within the limits of the City of Lakewood.
(q) “Retail District” is established to provide standards for the continued operation of small commercial establishments. This district would permit those retail uses that typically locate side by side to create a shopping environment that encourages pedestrian interaction between stores and where stores thrive on being adjacent to other retail uses.
(r) “Rifle” means a weapon designed or redesigned, made or remade, and intended to be fired from the shoulder and designed or redesigned and made or remade to use the energy of the explosive in a fixed metallic cartridge to fire only a single projectile through a rifled bore for each single pull of the trigger.
(s) “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.
(t) “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.
(u) “Shotgun” means a firearm, whether or not it is intended to be fired from the shoulder, that is designed or redesigned, made or remade, to fire a fixed shotgun shell.
(v) “Stun gun” means any electronic instrument, device or thing which produces, emits or discharges any current, plus, volt or charge of electricity, regardless of voltage, amperage, or frequency, and which is designed or specifically adapted to stun, daze, traumatize, incapacitate or paralyze a human being.
(w) “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, not designed as a firearm, but which is specially adapted for use as a firearm;
(3) Any industrial tool, signaling device or safety device, not designed as a firearm, but which as designed is capable of use as such, when possessed, carried or used as a firearm.
(Ord. 06-19. Passed 7-1-19.)