(a) Permit Required. No person shall engage in the business of selling, or sell or give away to any person within the City, any pistol, revolver, or similar weapon, which can be concealed on the person, without securing a permit to do so, as hereinafter provided. No person having secured such a permit shall sell or give away any such weapon to any person within this City who has not secured a permit from the Chief of Police to purchase such weapon in the manner hereinafter provided.
(b) Permit Application. Any person desiring a permit authorizing the sale of any weapon in subsection (a) hereof shall make application in writing to the Chief of Police, setting out in such application the full name and residence of the applicant if an individual, and if a firm or corporation, the name and residence of each of its members or officers. Such applicant shall also set out the location at which it is intended or desired to conduct such business. Upon receipt of such application, the Police Chief shall issue a permit to the applicant.
(c) Daily Report. Every person who is permitted to deal in weapons under subsection (a) hereof shall deliver to the Chief of Police, every day before 12:00 noon, a legible and correct report of every sale or gift made under authority of such permit during the preceding twenty-four hours. Such report shall contain the date of such sale or gift, the name of the purchaser or donee, with his address and age, the number, kind, description and price of such weapon, the number of the purchaser’s permit and the purposes given by such person for the purchase of the weapon. The report shall be substantially in the following form:
Permit number
Weapon number
Name of purchaser
Address of purchaser
Age of purchaser
Kind or description of weapon
For what purpose purchased
Price.
(d) Revocation of Permit. If the Mayor is satisfied that the permittee has violated any provision of this section, he shall revoke the permit. No other permit shall be issued to such person for a period of three years thereafter.
(e) Permit to Purchase Concealable Weapon. No person shall purchase any pistol, revolver or similar weapon which can be concealed on the person, without first securing from the Chief of Police a permit to do so. Before any such permit is granted, an application in writing shall be made setting forth in such application the name, address, age, height, weight, complexion, nationality and other elements of identification of the person desiring such permit. Such application shall also contain a recommendation that the permit be issued from two persons known to the Chief of Police as persons of good reputation and residents of the City for at least one year, or who appear to be taxpayers residing within the City.
(Ord. 1966-86. Passed 9-26-66.)
(f) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.