“Antique firearm” means a firearm or replica of a firearm not designed or redesigned for using rim fire or conventional center fire ignition with fixed ammunition and manufactured in or before 1898, including any matchlock, flintlock, percussion cap, or similar type of ignition system and also any firearm using fixed ammunition manufactured in or before 1898, for which ammunition is no longer manufactured in the United States and is not readily available in the ordinary channels of commercial trade.

“Barrel length” means the distance from the bolt face of a closed action down the length of the axis of the bore to the crown of the muzzle, or in the case of a barrel with attachments, to the end of any legal device permanently attached to the end of the muzzle.

“Dangerous knife” means any knife having a blade more than three inches in length, or any dirk, dagger, sword, bayonet, bolo knife, hatchet, straightedge razor, or razor blade not in a package, dispenser, or shaving appliance.

“Martial arts weapon” includes but is not limited to the following devices in common usage in what is known as the martial arts or arts of self-defense: Nuchaku (chako sticks), consisting of two or more lengths of wood, metal, plastic, or similar substance connected with wire, rope, or other means; throwing stars, which are multi-pointed, metal objects designed to embed upon impact from any aspect; ninja chains; sai; tonfa; three section staffs; spike balls; telescopic metal stick (telescopic police baton); jutte; and kama.

“Pistol” means any firearm with a barrel less than sixteen inches in length, or is designed to be held and fired by the use of a single hand.

“Rifle” means a weapon designed or redesigned, made or remade, and intended to be fired from the shoulder and designed or redesigned, made or remade, and intended 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.

“Semiautomatic assault rifle” means any rifle which utilizes a portion of the energy of a firing cartridge to extract the fired cartridge case and chamber the next round, and which requires a separate pull of the trigger to fire each cartridge. “Semiautomatic assault rifle” does not include antique firearms, any firearm that has been made permanently inoperable, or any firearm that is manually operated by bolt, pump, lever, or slide action.

“Switchblade knife” means any knife having a blade that opens automatically by hand pressure applied to a button, spring mechanism, or other device, or blade that opens, falls or is ejected into position by force of gravity or by an outward, downward or centrifugal thrust or movement. (Ord. 3942-23 § 1, 2023; Ord. 1145-85 § 125, 1985.)