As used in this chapter:
(a) “Active duty.” Has the same meaning as defined in 10 U.S.C. § 101.
(b) “Alien registration number.” The number issued by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Agency that is located on the alien’s permanent resident card and may also be commonly referred to as the “USCIS number” or the “alien number”.
(c) “Automatic firearm.” Any firearm designed or specially adapted to fire a succession of cartridges with a single function of the trigger.
(d) “Ballistic knife” means a knife with a detachable blade that is propelled by a spring-operated mechanism.
(e) “Concealed handgun license” or “license to carry a concealed handgun.”
(1) Means, subject to division (2) of this definition, a license or temporary emergency license to carry a concealed handgun issued under Ohio R.C. 2923.125 or Ohio R.C. 2923.1213 or a license to carry a concealed handgun issued by another state with which the Attorney General has entered into a reciprocity agreement under Ohio R.C. 109.69.
(2) A reference in any provision of this Code to a concealed handgun license issued under Ohio R.C. 2923.125 or a license to carry a concealed handgun issued under Ohio R.C. 2923.125 means only a license of the type that is specified in that section. A reference in any provision of this Code to a concealed handgun license issued under Ohio R.C. 2923.1213, a license to carry a concealed handgun issued under Ohio R.C. 2923.1213, or a license to carry a concealed handgun on a temporary emergency basis means only a license of the type that is specified in Ohio R.C. 2923.1213. A reference in any provision of this Code to a concealed handgun license issued by another state or a license to carry a concealed handgun issued by another state means only a license issued by another state with which the Attorney General has entered into a reciprocity agreement under Ohio R.C. 109.69.
(f) “Dangerous ordnance.”
(1) Any of the following, except as provided in division (2) of this definition:
A. Any explosive device or incendiary device.
B. 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 a military explosive, or for use in mining, quarrying, excavating or demolitions.
C. Any rocket launcher, mortar, artillery piece, grenade, mine, bomb, torpedo or similar weapon, designed and manufactured for military purposes, and the ammunition for that weapon.
(2) “Dangerous ordnance” does not include any of the following:
A. Any firearm, including a military weapon and the ammunition for that weapon, and regardless of its actual age, that employs a percussion cap or other obsolete ignition system, or that is designed and safe for use only with black powder.
B. Any pistol, rifle or shotgun, designed or suitable for sporting purposes, including a military weapon as issued or as modified, and the ammunition for that weapon.
C. Any cannon or other artillery piece that, 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.
D. Black powder, priming quills and percussion caps possessed and lawfully used to fire a cannon of a type defined in division (2)C. of this definition 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 propellant or ignition device in small-arms or small-arms ammunition.
E. Dangerous ordnance that is inoperable or inert and cannot readily be rendered operable or activated, and that is kept as a trophy, souvenir, curio or museum piece.
F. Any device that is expressly excepted from the definition of a destructive device pursuant to the “Gun Control Act” of 1968, 18 U.S.C. 921(a)(4), as amended, and regulations issued under that Act.
G. It shall not mean a firearm as defined in R.C. § 2923.11 nor any component of or ammunition for the same.
(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. It shall not mean a firearm as defined in R.C. § 2923.11 nor any component of or ammunition for the same.
(h) “Explosive” means any chemical compound, mixture or device, the primary or common purpose of which is to function by explosion. “Explosive” includes all materials that have been classified as division 1.1, division 1.2, division 1.3, or division 1.4 explosives by the United States Department of Transportation in its regulations and includes, but is not limited to, dynamite, black powder, pellet powders, initiating explosives, blasting caps, electric blasting caps, safety fuses, fuse igniters, squibs, cordeau detonant fuses, instantaneous fuses and igniter cords and igniters. “Explosive” does not include “fireworks,” as defined in Ohio R.C. 3743.01, or any substance or material otherwise meeting the definition of explosive set forth in this section that is manufactured, sold, possessed, transported, stored, or used in any activity described in Ohio R.C. 3743.80, provided the activity is conducted in accordance with all applicable laws, rules, and regulations, including, but not limited to, the provisions of Ohio R.C. 3743.80 and the rules of the State Fire Marshal adopted pursuant to Ohio R.C. 3737.82.
(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. It shall not mean a firearm as defined in R.C. § 2923.11 nor any component of or ammunition for the same.
“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.
(Ord. 19-91. Passed 12-17-19.)