(a) A person must not give, sell, rent, lend, or otherwise transfer any rifle or shotgun or any ammunition or major component for these guns in the County to a minor. This subsection does not apply when the transferor is at least 18 years old and is the parent, guardian, or instructor of the minor, or in connection with a regularly conducted or supervised program of marksmanship or marksmanship training.
(b) An owner, employee, or agent of a gun shop must not allow a minor to, and a minor must not, enter the gun shop unless the minor is accompanied by a parent or other legal guardian at all times when the minor is in the gun shop.
(c) A person must not give, sell, rent, lend, or otherwise transfer to a minor:
(1) a ghost gun or major component of a ghost gun;
(2) an undetectable gun or major component of an undetectable gun; or
(3) a computer code or program to make a gun through a 3D printing process.
(d) A person must not purchase, sell, transfer, possess, or transport a ghost gun, including a gun created through a 3D printing process, in the presence of a minor.
(e) A person must not store or leave a ghost gun, an undetectable gun, or a major component of a ghost gun or an undetectable gun, in a location that the person knows or should know is accessible to a minor.
(f) This section must be construed as broadly as possible within the limits of State law to protect minors. (1981 L.M.C., ch. 42, § 1; 1997 L.M.C., ch. 14, § 1; 2001 L.M.C., ch. 11, § 1; 2021 L.M.C., ch. 7, §1; 2022 L.M.C., ch. 36, §1.)
Editor's note—Section 57-7, formerly § 57-5, was renumbered pursuant to 2001 L.M.C., ch. 11, § 1.