Delano Municipal Code Ch. 9.64 Ammunition Sales

A. The term "firearm ammunition" as used in this chapter 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. Exception as specified in subsections C and D of this section, 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 each year during the seven days prior to the Fourth of July of each year or on the Fourth of July of each year.

C. Nothing in this section shall prohibit 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 section 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 section shall not apply to the sale of any firearm ammunition when such sale is prohibited by Sections 12303, 12303.6, 12304 or 13231 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.

(Ord. 1013, 1998).