Chapter 7.20
FIREARMS

Sections:

7.20.010    Discharge prohibited – Exceptions.

7.20.020    Ammunition sales.

7.20.010 Discharge prohibited – Exceptions.

No person shall shoot or discharge any pistol, rifle, gun or other firearm, not necessary in self-defense or in the performance of official duty, within the city limits. Violation of this section is a misdemeanor. (Ord. 47 § 1, 1987; 1987 Code § 6.08.010)

7.20.020 Ammunition sales.

A. “Firearm ammunition,” as used in this section, shall include any ammunition for use in pistols, revolvers, rifles, shotguns, or any other device designed to be used as a weapon from which is expelled a projectile by the force of explosion or other form of combustion.

B. Except as specified in subsection C or D of this section, no person, including retail gun dealers, shall sell, give, lend or transfer ownership of any firearm ammunition during the period of seven days prior to the first day of January of each year or on the first day of January of each year, or during the seven days prior to the Fourth of July of each year or on the Fourth of July of each year.

C. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the sale or transfer of ownership of firearm ammunition by a wholesale gun dealer to another wholesale gun dealer or by a wholesale gun dealer to a retail gun dealer, or of ammunition from which the propellant has been removed and the primer has been permanently deactivated.

D. Nothing in this section shall prohibit sales to or acquisitions by any person described in Section 12302 or 12322 of the Penal Code of the state of California.

E. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the sale of firearm ammunition when such sale is prohibited by Title 2, Part 4, of the Penal Code of the state of California. (Ord. 244 § 1, 1998)