Hawaiian Gardens Municipal Code Ch. 9.60 Weapons

It is unlawful in the City for any person, firm or corporation to sell, give, lend or in any way furnish to any person under the age of 18 years, any gun, revolver, pistol, firearm, spring gun, sling, sling shot, or device designed, or intended, to discharge or capable of discharging, any dangerous missile.

(Prior Code § 3400)

Note— This section has been editorially amended to comply with the provisions of Ordinance 194.

It is unlawful in the City, for any person, firm or corporation, to sell, give, lend, or in any way furnish or to cause or permit to be held, given, lent, or in any way furnish, to any person under the age of 18 years any cartridge, shell, ammunition, or device containing any explosive substance, designed, or intended to be used in, or fired from any gun, revolver, pistol or firearm.

(Prior Code § 3401)

Note— This section has been editorially amended to comply with the provisions of Ordinance 194.

It is unlawful in the City for any person other than a duly authorized officer of the law while on duty to discharge, fire, shoot, or operate any gun, revolver, pistol, firearm, spring gun, air gun, pellet gun, BB gun, sling shot, or other device designed or intended to discharge any dangerous missile, cartridge, shell, ammunition, or pellet except in a public or private shooting gallery or range regularly licensed by the City.

(Ord. 194 § 1, 1976)

A. No person shall carry or possess while participating in any demonstration, rally, picket line, or other such public assembly, any length of lumber, wood, wood lath, or other wood product, unless the other dimensions of such object do not exceed a thickness of one-fourth inch and a width of two inches, or if not generally rectangular in shape, such object shall not exceed three-fourths inch in its thickest dimension; and such object is blunt and unsharpened at its end and edge.

B. No person shall carry or possess while participating in any demonstration, rally, picket line, or other such public assembly, any bar, shaft, rod, cable, wire, or other such length of hard metal, hard plastic, or other hard synthetic material.

(Ord. 241 § 1, 1980)

A. As used in this chapter, the term 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, machinegun, 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.

B. For purposes of this chapter, the meaning of the term 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.

C. 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 an operable firearm is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Ord. 318 § 1, 1987)

A. Subject to subsection C. of this section, the term "assault weapon," as used in this section, shall include:

1. Any semiautomatic action, center fire rifle or carbine which accepts a detachable magazine with a capacity of 20 rounds or more, including but not limited to the following firearms or their copies; AR 15 semiautomatic assault rifles, Uzi semiautomatic assault rifles or carbines, Ingram Mac-10 semiautomatic assault carbines, Ingram Mac-11 semiautomatic assault carbines, Heckler and Koch 93 semiautomatic assault rifles, Heckler and Koch 91 semiautomatic assault rifles, AK-47 semiautomatic assault rifles, AKM-47 semiautomatic assault rifles, all Avtomat Kalashnikov weapons, M1-A semiautomatic assault rifles, Thompson semiautomatic carbines and any other semiautomatic carbines manufactured by Auto Ordnance;

2. Any shotguns with a barrel of less than 18 inches and a folding stock or magazine capacity of more than six rounds;

3. Any weapon which may be readily restored to an operable assault weapon, as defined above in subdivisions 1. and 2. of this section; and

4. Any part, or combination of parts, designed or intended to convert a weapon into an assault weapon, as defined above in subdivisions 1. and 2., or any combination of parts from which an assault weapon may be readily assembled, if those parts are in the possession or under the control of the same person.

B. As used in this section, the term "semiautomatic" means a weapon which fires a single projectile for each single pull of the trigger and which employs a magazine.

C. The term "assault weapon" does not include any of the following:

1. Any of the above generally and specifically described weapons which is a "machine gun" as that term is defined by Section 12200 of the Penal Code of the State of California; any pistol, revolver or other firearm which is capable of being concealed upon one's person, as defined and regulated by the provisions of Sections 12021 and 12025 of the Penal Code of the State;

2. Any of the following: weapons which do not use fixed ammunition, weapons which were manufactured prior to 1898, manually operated bolt action weapons, lever action weapons, slide action weapons, single-shot weapons, multiple barrel weapons, revolving cylinder weapons, semiautomatic weapons which use exclusively Mannlicher-style clips, semiautomatic weapons manufactured prior to 1954, rim-fire weapons that employ a tubular magazine;

3. Any assault weapon which is an antique or relic firearm or other weapon falling within the specifications of paragraphs (5), (7) and (8) of subsection (b) of Section 12020 of the Penal Code of the State;

4. Any short-barreled rifle or shotgun as defined in subsection (c) of Penal Code Section 12020; or

5. Any assault weapon which has been modified either to render it permanently inoperable or to permanently make it a device no longer defined as an assault weapon.

D. Except as specified in subsections E., F. and G. of this section, no person, including wholesale and retail gun dealers, shall sell, offer or display for sale, give, lend or transfer ownership of, or possess any assault weapon.

E. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the acquisition, possession, or disposition by Los Angeles County Sheriff's Departments, Sheriff's offices, Marshal's offices, the California Highway Patrol, other local, State and Federal Law Enforcement Agencies, or the military and naval forces of this State or of the United States for use in the discharge of their official duties; nor shall anything in this section prohibit the possession of assault weapons or magazines therefor by regular, salaried, full-time officers, employees or agents thereof when on duty and the use of assault weapons is within the scope of their duties.

F. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the possession of any assault weapon when such possession is prohibited by the provisions of Section 12031 of the Penal Code of the State or Section 2010 of the Fish and Game Code of the State.

G. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection D. of this section:

1. Any person who obtains title to an assault weapon by bequest or intestate succession may remain in possession for a period of time not to exceed six months, and shall within that time transfer title of the weapon to a dealer licensed pursuant to Article 4 of the State Penal Code, commencing at Section 12250, or to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department or other Police Agency;

2. An assault weapon may be maintained in the possession of an entity or establishment engaged in the business of motion picture, television or video production, but only for the purpose of being utilized as a prop during the course of motion picture, television or video production by an authorized participant therein or by an authorized agent or employee of the entity or establishment, and only if the entity or establishment properly secures such assault weapon from unauthorized use; and

3. An assault weapon may be possessed by any Federal, State or local historical society, museum or institutional collection which is open to the public, provided any such weapon is properly housed, secured from unauthorized handling and is unloaded.

(Ord. 343 § 1, 1989)