549.10 SALE AND PURCHASE OF WEAPONS.

   (a)   License to Sell Weapons Required. No person shall engage in the business of setting or sell or give away to any person, within the City any pistol, revolver, derringer, bowie knife, dagger, machine gun, bomb or other weapons of like character, which can be concealed without securing a license to do so as provided by subsection (b) hereof.

   (b)   License Application; Issuance. Any person desiring a license authorizing the sale of any of the deadly weapons mentioned in subsection (a) hereof shall make written application to a committee composed of the Police Chief and the Police Prosecutor, setting out in the application the full name and residence of the applicant, if an individual, and if a firm or corporation, the names and residence of each of its members or officers, the applicant shall also set out the location at which it is intended or desired to conduct such business. Upon the receipt of an application the committee shall issue a license to the applicant.

   (e)   Revocation. In case the police Chief is satisfied that the applicant has violated any provision of this chapter, he may revoke the person's license for the selling of such weapons. No other license shall be issued to the licensee for a period of three years thereafter.

   (d)   Report of Licensee to Police. Whoever is licensed to deal in the deadly weapons described in subsection (a) hereof shall make out and deliver to the Police Chief a legible and correct report of every sale or gift or loan made under authority of the license within seventy-two hours of the sale or donation or loan. The report shall contain the date of sale, loan or gift, the name of the purchaser or donee with his address and age, the number and kind, description and price of the weapon and the purpose given by such person for the purchase of the weapon, and the report shall be in the following form:

   Dealer and license number;

   Name of purchaser, donee or loanee;

   Address of purchaser, donee or loanee;

   Age of purchaser;

   Number of weapon;

   Kind and description of weapon;

   For what purpose purchased;

   Price.

   (e)   Weapon Purchaser. No person shall purchase any weapon mentioned in subsection (a) hereof unless he furnishes to the dealer the information required by subsection (d) hereof. No person shall purchase any weapon for a person under the age of twenty-one or otherwise give, sell or loan such weapon to a person under the age of twenty-one years. (1967 Code §133.05-133.09)

   (f)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree on the first offense; on each subsequent offense such person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. Every purchase, sale, gift or loan of any weapon in violation of this section shall be considered a separate offense.