§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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