(a) No person shall discharge, or cause to be discharged, any firearm or airgun or other instrument used to explode any cartridge or thing filled with any explosive substance or material.
(b) No person shall discharge, or cause to be discharged, any arrow or other projectile capable of inflicting death or serious physical harm to persons or property, from any device or instrument including, but not limited to, a zip-gun, slingshot, crossbow, compound bow or any type of bow commonly used for hunting purposes. This subsection shall not apply to supervised commercial archery ranges or State accredited schools offering instruction in the use of such weapons.
(c) This section shall not be construed to include toy bow and arrow sets, toy pistols, toy canes, toy guns or other devices in which paper caps containing twenty-five hundredths grains or less of explosive compound are used, providing they are so constructed that the hand cannot come in contact with the cap when in place for the explosion, and toy pistol paper caps which contain less than twenty hundredths grains of explosive mixture, the sale and use of which shall be permitted at all times.
(d) This section shall not apply to a law enforcement officer in the lawful performance of his duties; or when the offender discharges the weapon when acting in self-defense of himself or another person which is justified under State law, which the offender must show by a preponderance of the evidence.
(e) Whoever violates this section is guilty of discharging weapons, a misdemeanor of the third degree.
(f) Strict liability is intended to be imposed for violation of this section, except as stated in subsection (d) hereof.
(Ord. 90-60. Passed 12-5-90.)