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

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the tube into battery without displacing the carriage, and is designed and safe for use only with black powder; (5) Black powder, priming quills and percussion caps possessed and lawfully used to fire a cannon of a type defined in paragraph (f)(4) hereof during displays, celebrations, organized matches or shoots, and target practice, and smokeless and black powder, primers, and percus- sion caps possessed and lawfully used as a propellant or ignition device in small -arms or small -arms ammunition; (6) Dangerous ordnance which is inoperable or inert and cannot readi- ly be rendered operable or activated, and which is kept as a trophy, souvenir, curio, or museum piece; (7) Any device which -that is expressly excepted from the definition of a destructive device pursuant to the "Gun Control Act of 1968," 82 Stat. 1213, 18 U.S.C. 921(A)(4), as amended and regulations issued under that Act. (g) "Deadly weapon" means any instrument, device, or thing capable of inflicting death, and designed or specially adapted for use as a weap- on, or possessed, carried or used as a weapon. (h) "Dealer" means any person, firm or corporation licensed by the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and firearms engaged in the busi- ness of selling or trading handguns at wholesale or retail within the lim- its of the City, whether as the principle business of such person, firm or corporation, or in addition thereto. (i) "Explosive device" means any device designed or specially adapted to cause physical harm to persons or property by means of an explosion, and consisting of an explosive substance or agency and a means to detonate it. "Explosive device" includes, without limitation, any bomb, any explosive demolition device, any blasting cap or detona- tor containing an explosive charge, and any pressure vessel whielrthat has been knowingly tampered with or arranged so as to explode. 0) "Firearm" means any deadly weapon capable of expelling or pro- pelling one or more projectiles by the action of an explosive or com- bustible propellant. "Firearm" includes an unloaded firearm and any firearm which is inoperable but which can readily be rendered operable. (k) "Handgun" means any pistol, revolver ,. other firearm having barrel not exceeding ing t.. el..e inehes in length measured by the inscrtion of a red with the vopeiver or slide ,lased, or the barrel, receiver or an3 (1) Any firearm that has short stock and is designed to be held and fired by the use of a single hand;