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A. Criminal use of weapons is knowingly:

1. selling, manufacturing, purchasing, possessing any bludgeon, sandclub, metal knuckles or throwing star;

2. possessing with intent to use the same unlawfully against another, a billy, blackjack, slungshot, martial arts fighting sticks, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon or instrument of like character;

3. setting a spring gun; or

4. possessing or transporting any incendiary or explosive material, liquid, solid or mixture, equipped with a fuse, wick or any other detonating device, commonly known as a Molotov cocktail or a pipe bomb.

B. Subsections A 1, 2, 3, and 4 shall not apply to or affect any of the following:

1. law enforcement officers, or any person summoned by any such officers to assist in making arrests or preserving the peace while actually engaged in assisting such officer;

2. wardens, superintendents, directors, security personnel and keepers of prisons, penitentiaries, jails or other institutions for the detention of persons accused or convicted of crime, while acting within the scope of their authority;

3. members of the armed services or reserve forces of the United States or the Kansas National Guard while in the performance of their official duty; or

4. manufacture of, transportation to, or sale of weapons to a person authorized under 1 through 3 of this subsection to possess such weapons.

C. Criminal use of weapons is a Class A Public Offense. (Ord. 16-27 § 1, 2016; Ord. 14-42 § 3, 2014; Ord. 13-33 § 4, 2013; Ord. 10-71 § 1, 2010; Ord. 09-59 § 7, 2009; Ord. 06-44 § 1, 2006; Ord. 05-58 § 1, 2005; Ord. 99-24 § 27, 1999; Ord. 94-08 § 2, 1994; Ord. 93-09 § 25, 1993; Ord. 87-149 § 8, 1987; Ord. 83-75 § 2, 1983.)