Atwater Municipal Code Ch. 5.28 Handgun Dealers

No person shall engage in the business of selling or otherwise transferring, or shall advertise for sale or offer or expose for sale of transfer, within the City, any pistol, revolver, or other firearm capable of being concealed upon the person unless he has been issued a license pursuant to Section 5.28.020.

(Prior Code § 4-3.601)

A. The Chief of Police or his designee of the City shall be and is designated as the licensing authority of the City for the purpose of licensing firearms defined under Section 5.28.010, and as such licensing authority shall accept application for and may, within his discretion, grant licenses permitting the licensee to sell at retail within the City pistols, revolvers, and other firearms capable of being concealed upon the person. Such license, if granted, shall be in the form prescribed by the Attorney General and shall be effective for not more than one year from the date of its issuance and such license shall be subject to the following conditions:

1. The business shall be carried on only in the building designated in the license.

2. The license, or a copy thereof, certified by the issuing authority shall be displayed on the premises where it can easily be seen.

3. No pistol or revolver, or imitation thereof, or any placard advertising the sale, or other transfer thereof, shall be displayed in any part of the premises where it can be readily seen from the outside.

B. A breach of any of the conditions set forth in subsection A of this section shall subject the licensee to forfeiture of the license issued.

(Prior Code § 4-3.602; Ord. CS 411, § 10, 1979)