Compton Municipal Code § 7-4 Firearms

[Ord. #856, § 3600]

No person shall discharge any firearm loaded with a missile. This Chapter shall not apply to police officers in the discharge of their duties nor to any person acting in self-defense. This section shall not apply to shooting galleries or rifle ranges being operated under a permit and license duly issued by the City under the licensing Chapter of this Code.

[Ord. #856, § 3601]

Any person desiring to maintain a rifle range shall make application to the Chief of Police for a permit to maintain such rifle range. The application shall set forth in particular the proposed location. If, upon investigation by the Chief of Police, it appears that the rifle range could be maintained without danger to the public, the Chief of Police may issue a permit therefor, upon such terms and conditions as in his opinion will properly safeguard persons and property.

[Ord. #856, § 3602]

No person shall fire, discharge or use any air rifle, pistol or other weapon operated or controlled by means of air compression or plunger.

[Ord. #856, § 3603]

No person shall sell, exchange, give or loan to any person under 18 years of age any gun, revolver, pistol or firearm of any description or any spring or air gun designed or intended to discharge any shot or other deadly or dangerous missile, or any ammunition, cartridge, shell, or other device containing any explosive substance designed and intended for use in any weapons enumerated herein.

[Ord. #856, § 3603.1]

No person under 18 years of age shall have in his possession, care, custody or control any article or thing mentioned in the preceding section.

[Ord. #1756, § 1]

a. Definitions. As used in this subsection:

1. REPLICA FIREARM – Shall include any device or object made of plastic, wood, metal or any other material which is a facsimile or toy version of, or is otherwise recognizable as, a pistol, revolver, shotgun, sawed-off shotgun, rifle, machine gun, rocket launcher, or any other firearm as that term is used under the provisions of Sections 12001, 12001.5, 12020(d)(1), and 12570 of the State Penal Code.

2. FIREARM – Shall be the same as the meaning of that term under the State Dangerous Weapons Control laws and shall include air rifles, pellet guns or BB guns.

b. Every person who, except in self defense, in the presence of any other person, draws, exhibits or brandishes a replica firearm or who simulates a firearm in a rude, angry and threatening manner, or who in any manner, unlawfully uses the same in any fight or quarrel and causes the victim to reasonably believe that the person is actually in possession of any operable firearm is guilty of a misdemeanor.

[Added by Ord. #1835, § 2]

a. The term "firearm ammunition" as used in this section, shall include any ammunition for use in pistols, revolvers, rifles, shot guns, or any other device designed to be used as a weapon from which is expelled a projectile by the force of any explosion or other form of combustion.

b. Except as specified in Paragraph c and d, 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 day of July of each year.

c. Nothing in this subsection shall prohibit the sale or transfer of ownership of firearm ammunition by a wholesale gun dealer to a retail gun dealer, or of ammunition requested by Section 12324 of the Penal Code of the State of California.

d. Nothing in this subsection shall prohibit sale to or acquisition by any person described in Section 12302 or 12322 of the Penal Code of the State of California.

e. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to the sale of any firearm ammunition when such sale is prohibited by Sections 12303, 12303.6, 12304 or 12321 of the Penal Code of the State of California, or is otherwise prohibited by Chapter 2.5, - Title 2, Part 4, of the Penal Code of the State of California.

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Editor's Note: Former Subsection 7-4.8, Saturday Night Specials - Sale Prohibited, previously codified herein and containing portions of Ordinance No. 1948, was repealed in its entirety by Ordinance No. 2082.