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unloaded firearm and any firearm which is inoperable but which can readily be rendered <br />operable. <br /> (k) ~Handgun" means any pistol, rew~lver or other firearm, having a barrel not <br />exceeding twelve inches in length, measured by the insertion of a rod with the receiver or <br />slide closed, or the barrel, receiver or any part of the firing mechanism of such weapon, which <br />is designed to eject or propel a projectile by the action of an explosive or combustible <br />propellant, but does not include inoperable handguns which cannot be rendered operable, <br />curios, relics or antique handguns as presently or hereafter defined in Title 26, Part 178 of the <br />Code of Federal Regulations, Commerce in Firearms. <br /> (1) ~Incendiary device' means any firebomb and any device designed or specially <br />adapted to cause physical harm to persons or property by means of fire and consisting of an <br />incendiary substance or agenc~r and a means to ignite it. <br /> (m) ~Nonresident' means any person who does not have a place of residence within <br />the limits of the City of Lakewood. <br /> (n) "Person" means any individual, corporation, company, association, firm, <br />partnership, club or society, including wholesale and retain gun dealers. <br /> (o) "Registration receipt' means a handgun registration receipt issued pursuant to Section <br />549.25. <br /> (p) 'Resident~ means any person who has a place of residence within the limits of the <br />City of Lakewood. <br /> (q) "Retail District' is established to provide standards for the continued operation of <br />small commercial establishments. This district would permit those retail uses that typically <br />locate side by side to create a shopping environment that encourages pedestrian interaction <br />between stores and where stores thrive on being adjacent to other retail uses. <br /> (r) "Rifle' means a weapon designed or redesigned, made or remade, and intended to <br />be fired from l~he shoulder and designed or redesigned and made or remade to use the energy <br />of the explosive in a fixed metallic cartridge to fire only a single projectile through a rifled <br />bore for each single pull of the trigger. <br /> (s) 'Sawed-off firearm' means a shotgun with a barrel less than eighteen inches long, <br />or a rifle with a barrel less than sixteen inches long, or a shotgun or rifle less than twenty-six <br />inches long overall. <br /> (t) "Semi-automatic firearm' means any firearm designed or specially adapted to fire a <br />single cartridge and automatically chamber a succeeding cartridge ready to fire, with a single <br />function of the trigger. <br /> (u) 'Shotgun' means a firearm, whether or not it is intended to be fired from the <br />shoulder, that is designed or redesigned, made or remade, to fire a fixed shotgun shell. <br /> (v) 'Zip-gun" means any of the following: <br /> (1) Any firearm of crude and extemporized manufacture: <br /> (2) Any device, including, without limitation, a starter's pistol, not designed as a <br /> firearm, but which is specially adapted for use as a firearm; <br /> (3) Any industrial tool, signaling device or safety device, not designed as a <br /> firearm, but which as designed is capable of use as such, when possessed, <br /> carried or used as a firm. <br /> <br /> SECTION 2. That Sections 549.13,549.14, 549.15, 549.16, 549.17 and 549.18 of the <br />General Offenses Code of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Lakewood shall be and the <br />same are hereby repealed. <br /> <br /> SECTION 3. That Chapter 549 of the General Offenses Code of the Codified Ordinances <br />of the City of Lakewood be and the same are hereby supplemented by enacting Sections 549.21. <br />549.22, 549.23,549.24, 549.25, 549.26, 549.27, 549.28, 549.29 and 549.98 to read as follows: <br /> <br />549.21 WEAPONS DEALER'S LICENSE <br /> <br />(a) No person, firm or corporation shall engage in the business of selling, or sell or <br /> give away to any person, within the Git¥, any deadly ~veapon without securing a <br /> license to do so as hereinafter provided. <br /> <br />(b) The issuance of a dealer's license to sell deadly weapons shall be restricted to <br /> locations within a retail district or commercial district. Further, a dealer's license <br /> shall not be issued to an applicant whose proposed dealer location is within five <br /> <br /> <br />