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The following definitions shall apply for use in this Chapter:

(1) “Air gun” means and includes the following: air guns, air pistols, air rifles, BB guns, and toy guns of any kind or nature when so designed, contrived, modified, and used to propel, by compressed air or other gas or spring any pellet, dart, BB, rock, or other hard substance a distance of more than twenty-five feet and with force sufficient to break windows or injure persons or animals.

(2) “Blow guns” means any weapon or toy so designed, contrived, or modified and capable of being used to propel by blowing any pellet, arrow, bean, pea, BB, rock, or other substance or object a distance of more than twenty-five feet and with force sufficient to break windows or injure persons or animals.

(3) “Bow” means any weapon or toy contrived of a flexible rod, cane, or stick, with a string, with or without a stock, sight, or trigger, for the propelling of arrows affixed with a metallic or hardened tip, when so shot or used as to propel such arrow a distance of more than twenty-five feet, and with force sufficient to break windows or injure persons or animals.

(4) “Dangerous weapons” means airguns, blow guns, bows, electronic devices, nun-chu-ka sticks, sling shots, and throwing stars as defined in this section.

(5) “Electronic devices” means any device or toy so designed, contrived, or modified and capable of being used to electronically inflict injury or pain upon persons or animals. Such devices include but are not limited to stun guns, stock guns or sticks, and cattle prods.

(6) “Nun-chu-ka sticks” means an instrument consisting of two or more sticks, clubs, bars, or rods to be used as handles, connected by a rope, cord, wire, or chain, in the design of a weapon used in connection with the practice of a system of self-defense such as karate, and capable of being used to injure persons or animals.

(7) “Slingshot” means any device contrived of string, rubber band, springs, or other tension-creating substances, with or without pellet pouch or handle, capable of being used to propel pellets, rocks, staples, pebbles, or other objects a distance of more than twenty-five feet and with a force sufficient to break windows or injure persons or animals.

(8) “Throwing stars” means any instrument without handles, consisting of a metal plate having three or more radiating points with one or more sharp edges and designed in the shape of a polygon, trefoil, cross, star, diamond, or other geometric shape, which when thrown is capable of injuring persons or animals. (Ord. 85-29 §1, 1985).