29-17 Amend Sec 549.01 to Clarify Regulation of Weapons Offenses

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(n) "Person" means any individual, corporation, company, association, firm, partnership, club or society, including wholesale and retain gun dealers. (o) "Registration receipt' means a handgun registration receipt issued pursuant to Section 549.25. (p) "Resident" means any person who has a place of residence within the limits of the City of Lakewood. (q) "Retail District" is established to provide standards for the contin- ued operation of small commercial establishments. This district would permit those retail uses that typically locate side by side to create a shopping environment that encourages pedestrian interaction between stores and where stores thrive on being adjacent to other retail uses. (r) "Rifle" means a 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 metal- lic cartridge to fire only a single projectile through a rifled bore for each single pull of the trigger. (s) "Sawed -off firearm" means a shotgun with a barrel less than eight- een 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. (t) "Semi- automatic firearm" means any firearm designed or specially adapted to fire a single cartridge and automatically chamber a succeed- ing cartridge ready to fire, with a single function of the trigger. (u) "Shotgun" means a firearm, whether or not it is intended to be fired from the shoulder, that is designed or redesigned, made or re- made, to fire a fixed shotgun shell. (v) "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 de- signed as a firearm, but which is specially adapted for use as a firearm; (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. shall be and hereby is repealed, and new Section 549.01, Definitions, of the Lakewood Codified Ordinances is enacted to read as follows: 549.01 DEFINITIONS. As used in this chapter; (a) "Automatic firearm" means any firearm designed or specially adapted to fire a succession of cartridges with a single function of the trigger.