06-19 - Repeal 549.051 Sale, Possession, and use of stun guns

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(h) "Dealer" means any person, firm or corporation licensed by the Federal Bu- reau of Alcohol, Tobacco and firearms engaged in the business of selling or trad- ing handguns at wholesale or retail within the limits 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, an), bomb, any explosive demolition device, any blasting cap or detonator containing an explosive charge, and an), pressure vessel that has been knowingly tampered with or arranged so as to explode. (j) "Firearm" means any deadly weapon capable of expelling or propelling one or more projectiles by the action of an explosive or combustible propellant. "Fire- arm" includes an unloaded firearm and any firearm which is inoperable but which can readily be rendered operable. (k) "Handgun" means any of the following: (1) Any firearm that has short stock and is designed to be held and fired by the use of a single hand; (2) Any combination of parts from which a firearm of a type described in divi- sion (k)(1) can be assembled. (1) "Incendiary device" means any firebomb and any device designed or spe- cially adapted to cause physical harm to persons or property by means of fire and consisting of an incendiary substance or agency and a means to ignite it. (m) "Nonresident" means any person who does not have a place of residence within the limits of the City of Lakewood. (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 an; 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 continued oper- ation of small commercial establishments. This district would permit those retail uses that typically locate side by side to create a shopping environment that en- courages 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 in- tended to be fired from the shoulder and designed or redesigned and made or re- made to use the energy of the explosive in a fixed metallic 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 eighteen 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 succeeding 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 remade, to fire a fixed shot- gun 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 designed 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 fire- arm, but which as designed is capable of use as such, when possessed, carried or used as a firearm.