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549.01 DEFINITIONS.
<br />As used in this chapter;
<br />(a) "Automatic firearm" means any firearm designed or specially adapted to fire
<br />a succession of cartridges with a single function of the trigger.
<br />(b) `Ballistic knife" means a knife with a detachable blade that is propelled by
<br />a spring - operated mechanism.
<br />(c) "Chief of Police" means the Chief of the Lakewood Division of Police or
<br />his designee.
<br />(d) "Commercial District' is established to provide for commercial uses that
<br />generally require independent, free - standing buildings, larger parking areas, and
<br />may have unique traffic patterns because of such factors as drive -in facilities.
<br />(e) "Dangerous ordnance" means any of the following, except as provided in
<br />subsection (t) hereof:
<br />(1) Any automatic or sawed -off firearm, zip -gun or ballistic knife;
<br />(2) Any explosive device or incendiary device;
<br />(3) Nitroglycerin, nitrocellulose, nitrostarch, PETN, cyclonite, TNT, picric acid
<br />and other high explosives, aimatol, tritonal, tetrytol, pentolite, pecretol, cyclotol,
<br />and other high explosive compositions; plastic explosives; dynamite, blasting gel-
<br />atin; gelatin dynamite, sensitized ammonium nitrate, liquid - oxygen blasting ex-
<br />plosives, blasting powder and other blasting agents; and any other explosive sub-
<br />stance having sufficient brisance or power to be particularly suitable for use as
<br />military explosive, or for use in mining, quarrying, excavating or demolitions;
<br />(4) Any firearm, rocket launcher, mortar, artillery piece, grenade, mine, bomb,
<br />torpedo or similar weapon, designed and manufactured for military purposes, and
<br />the ammunition for that weapon;
<br />(5) Any firearm muffler or suppressor;
<br />(6) Any combination of parts that is intended by the owner for use in converting
<br />any firearm or other device into a dangerous ordnance.
<br />(f) "Dangerous ordnance" does not include any of the following:
<br />(1) Exemptions covered by Section 549.98;
<br />(2) Any firearm, including a military weapon and the ammunition for that
<br />weapon, and regardless of its actual age, which employs a percussion cap or other
<br />obsolete ignition system, or that is designed and safe for use only with black pow-
<br />der;
<br />(3) Any pistol, rifle or shotgun, designed or suitable for sporting purposes, in-
<br />cluding a military weapon as used or as modified and the ammunition for that
<br />weapon, unless the firearm is an automatic or sawed -off firearm;
<br />(4) Any cannon or other artillery piece which, regardless of its actual age, is of
<br />a type in accepted use prior to 1887, has no mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic or
<br />other system for absorbing recoil and returning the tube into battery without dis-
<br />placing the carnage, and is designed and safe for use only with black powder;
<br />(5) Black powder, priming quills and percussion caps possessed and lawfully
<br />used to fire a cannon of a type defined in paragraph (f)(4) hereof during displays,
<br />celebrations, organized matches or shoots, and target practice, and smokeless and
<br />black powder, primers, and percussion caps possessed and lawfully used as a pro-
<br />pellant or ignition device in small -arms or small -arms ammunition;
<br />(6) Dangerous ordnance which is inoperable or inert and cannot readily be ren-
<br />dered operable or activated, and which is kept as a trophy, souvenir, curio or mu-
<br />seum piece;
<br />(7) Any device that is expressly excepted from the definition of a destructive
<br />device pursuant to the "Gun Control Act of 1968," 82 Star. 1213, 18 U.S.C.
<br />921(A)(4), as amended and regulations issued under that Act.
<br />(g) "Deadly weapon" means any instrument, device, or thing capable of inflict-
<br />ing death, and designed or specially adapted for use as a weapon, or possessed,
<br />carried or used as a weapon.
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