As used in this chapter:
(a) "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. Unless specifically stated herein a "deadly weapon" shall not include a firearm of any sort.
(b) "Firearm" means any deadly weapon capable of expelling or propelling one or more projectiles by the action of an explo sive or combustible propellant. "Firearm" includes an unloaded firearm, and any firearm which is inoperable but which can readily be rendered operable.
(c) "Handgun" means any firearm designed to be fired while being held in one hand.
(d) "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.
(e) "Automatic firearm" means any firearm designed or specially adapted to fire a succession of cartridges with a single function of the trigger. "Automatic firearm" also means any semi-automatic firearm designed or specially adapted to fire more than twenty-one cartridges without reloading, other than a firearm chambering only .22 caliber short, long or long-rifle cartridges.
(f) "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.
(g) "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 such;
(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.
(h) "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 which has been knowingly tampered with or arranged so as to explode.
(i) "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.
(j) "Dangerous ordnance" means any of the following, except as provided in subsection (k) hereof:
(1) Any explosive device or incendiary device;
(2) 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;
(3) Any rocket launcher, mortar, artillery piece, grenade, mine, bomb, torpedo or similar weapon, designed and manufactured for military purposes, and the ammunition therefor;
(4) Any firearm muffler or silencer;
(5) Any combination of parts that is intended by the owner for use in converting any firearm or other device into a dangerous ordnance.
(k) "Dangerous ordnance" does not include any of the follow ing:
(1) Any firearm, including a military weapon and the ammuni tion therefor, and regardless of its actual age, which employs a percussion cap or other obsolete ignition system, or which is designed and safe for use only with black powder;
(2) Any pistol, rifle or shotgun, designed or suitable for sporting purposes, including a military weapon as issued or as modified, and the ammunition therefor unless such firearm is an automatic or sawed-off firearm;
(3) 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;
(4) Black powder, priming quills and percussion caps pos sessed and lawfully used to fire a cannon of a type defined in subsection (k)(3) 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 propellant or ignition device in small-arms or small arms ammunition;
(5) 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.
(6) Any device which 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), and any amendments or additions thereto or reenactments thereof, and regulations issued thereunder.
(l) "Shotgun" means any 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 shotgun shell to fire through a smooth bore either a number of ball shot or a single projectile for each single pull of the trigger.
(m) "Rifle" means any 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 a single projectile through a rifled bore for each single pull of the trigger.
(n) "Fixed place of business" means an established location of a commercial or industrial enterprise owned, managed, or operated by a person, firm or corporation.
(o) "Unencased" means not enclosed in a case, container or receptacle designed and constructed specifically for the purpose of encasing a firearm, but shall not include a holster for a pistol or revolver.
(p) "Loaded" means any pistol, revolver, rifle, shotgun or any other weapon, by whatever name known, designed to expel a projectile or projectiles by the action of expanding gases, which contains a round or rounds of ammunition in the chamber, slide, receiver, barrel or cylinder or clip attached thereto.
(q) "Unloaded" means any pistol, revolver, rifle, shotgun or any other weapon, by whatever name known, designed to expel a projectile or projectiles by the action of expanding gases, which does not contain a round or rounds of ammunition in the cham ber, receiver, slide, barrel, cylinder or clip attached thereto.
(r) "Firearms dealer" means any person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of selling or trading firearms or ammuni tion at wholesale or retail within the limits of the City, whether as the principal business of such person, firm or corporation, or in addition thereto.
(s) "Fugitive from justice" means a person who flees, escapes from custody, conceals or attempts to use any other unlawful means to avoid prosecution or punishment for a felony under the laws of this or any other state, the United States or any of its territories or possessions, the District of Columbia or any foreign country with which the United States has a treaty of extradition in effect.
(t) "Resident" means any person who has a factual place of residence within the limits of the City.
(u) "Nonresident" means any person who does not have a factual place of residence within the limits of the City.
(v) "Minor" means any person under the age of twenty-one years.
(w) "Director of Public Safety" means the Director of Public Safety or his or her designee.
(x) "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.
"Certain semi-automatic firearms" means any of the following:
(A) A semi-automatic rifle less than forty-two inches in overall length that has an ability to accept a detachable magazine and has at least two of:
(i) a folding or telescoping stock;
(ii) a pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the weapon.
(iii) a bayonet mount;
(iv) a flash suppressor or threaded barrel designed to accommo date a flash suppressor; and
(v) a grenade launcher;
(B) a semi-automatic pistol that has an ability to accept a detachable magazine and has at least two of:
(i) an ammunition magazine that attaches to the pistol outside of the pistol grip;
(ii) a threaded barrel capable of accepting a barrel extender, flash suppressor, forward handgrip, or silencer;
(iii) a shroud that is attached to, or partially or completely encircles, the barrel and that permits the shooter to hold the firearm with the non-trigger hand without being burned;
(iv) a manufactured weight of 50 ounces or more when the pistol is unloaded; and
(v) is known by the person charged at the time of the offense to be a semi-automatic version of an automatic firearm.
(C) A semi-automatic shotgun that has at least two of:
(i) a folding or telescoping stock;
(ii) a pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the weapon;
(iii) a fixed magazine capacity in excess of 5 of the 2 3/4 inch standard rounds; and
(iv) an ability to accept detachable magazine.
(Ord. 14-11. Passed 1-11-11.)