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549.01 GENERAL OFFENSES CODE 120
<br />(g) "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 such;
<br />(3) Any industrial tool, signalling 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 firearm.
<br />(h) ~"Explosive device" means any device designed or specially adapted to cause physical
<br />harm to persons or property by means of an explosion, and consisting of ~an explosive
<br />substance or agency and a means to detonate it. "Explosive device" .includes with-
<br />out limitation any bomb, any explosive demolition device, any blasting cap or
<br />detonator containing an explosive charge, and any pressure vessel which has been
<br />knowingly tampered with or arranged so as to explode.
<br />(i) "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
<br />consisting of an incendiary substance or agency and a means to ignite it.
<br />(j) "Ballistic knife" means a knife with a detachable blade that is propelled by a
<br />spring-operated mechanism.
<br />(k) "Dangerous ordnance" means any of the following, except as provided in subsection
<br />(1) 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
<br />acid and other high explosives; amatol, tritonal, tetrytol, pentolite, pecretol,
<br />cyclotol and other high explosive compositions; plastic explosives; dynamite,
<br />. blasting gelatin, gelatin dynamite, sensitized ammonium.nitrate, liquid-oxygen
<br />blasting explosives, blasting powder and other blasting agents; and any other
<br />explosive substance having sufficient brisance or power to be particularly
<br />suitable for use as a military explosive, or for use in mining, quarrying,
<br />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,
<br />and the ammunition therefor;
<br />(5) Any firearm muffler or silencer;
<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 />(1) "Dangerous ordnance" does not include any of the following:.
<br />(1) Any firearm, including a military weapon and the ammunition therefor, and
<br />regardless of its actual age, which employs a percussion cap or other obsolete
<br />ignition system, . or which is designed and safe for use only with black powder;
<br />(2) Any pistol, rifle or shotgun, designed or suitable for sporting purposes,
<br />including a military weapon as issued ox as modified, and the ammunition
<br />therefor unless such firearm is an automatic or sawed-off firearm;
<br />(3) Any cannon or other artillery piece which, regardless of its actual age, is
<br />.. of a type in accepted use prior to 1887, has no mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic
<br />or other system for absorbing recoil, and returning the tube into battery with-
<br />out displacing the carriage, and is designed and safe for use, only with black
<br />powder;
<br />1988 Replacement
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