§10-810. Weapons and Dangerous Devices.
(1) Discharging
Firearms.
[158] No person shall fire or
discharge recklessly and without reasonable cause any rifle, gun, pistol, or
other firearm.
(2) Water Pistols, Electric Canes, and Miniature
Cannon.
[159] (a) No one shall sell
or offer for sale water pistols, electric canes, miniature cannon, or similar
articles.
[160] (b) No one shall use
water pistols, electric canes, miniature cannon or similar articles in any
street or public place.
(3) Spring Guns, Air Guns and Bows and
Arrows.
[161] (a) No person shall
sell, offer for sale at retail, or use, or possess with intent to use, any air
gun, spring gun, or any implement not a firearm which forcefully impels a pellet
of any kind.
(b) No person shall sell, or offer for sale, at retail,
any bow and arrow, to any person under the age of twenty-one (21) years unless
the seller first obtains written evidence of parental consent to the proposed
purchase by the
minor.
[162] (4) Switchblade
Knives.
[163] No person shall sell, offer for
sale or carry any knife with a blade which is released by a spring mechanism
including knives known as "switchblades."
(5) Incendiary Paper. No
person shall manufacture, sell, offer for sale, carry or store any incendiary
paper that has been chemically treated to vanish at the touch of a flame,
including paper known as "flash
paper."
[164] (6) Penalties. Whoever
violates any provision of this Section or Section 10-821 shall, in addition to
other penalties provided, forfeit the weapon, contraband, or dangerous device
giving rise to the violation of such
section.
[165] (7) Confiscation.
Police officers shall seize and deliver into departmental custody any air gun,
air pistol, spring gun, switch blade knife, incendiary paper, contraband
weapons, accessories and/or ammunition or other implement which shall be used,
discharged, possessed, offered for sale or carried in violation of Section
10-810 or Section 10-821.
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