(a) No person shall have or carry any shotgun, rifle, pistol, revolver, air gun or any other firearm, unless the same is unloaded and in a case if carried.
(b) No person shall discharge any shotgun, rifle, pistol, revolver, air gun or any other firearm in the City, and the Chief of Police may confiscate such unlawfully discharged firearms.
(c) No person shall discharge any arrow from a bow except at an inanimate archery target.
(d) This section does not apply to any officer of the law while in the performance of his or her duty, or to persons lawfully summoned by an officer to assist in making arrests or preserving the peace while so engaged in assisting such officer, or to any resident discharging a firearm when lawfully defending his or her person or property.