Irwindale Municipal Code Ch. 9.48 Weapons

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* For statutory provisions on the sale of weapons to minors, see Penal Code § 12550 et seq.

Except as otherwise provided in Section 9.48.030, no person shall sell, give, loan, or in any way furnish to any person under the age of eighteen 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, except ordinary paper caps for toy cap guns.

(Ord. 72 § 1(part), 1959: prior code § 4141).

Except, as otherwise provided in Section 9.48.030, no person under the age of eighteen years shall fire, discharge, shoot, or operate, or assist or participate in the firing, discharging, shooting, or operating, or have in his or her possession, care, custody, or control, any gun, revolver, pistol, firearm, spring gun, air gun, sling, slingshot, or device designed or intended to discharge, or be capable of discharging, any dangerous missile, or 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.

(Ord. 72 § 1(part), 1959: prior code § 4142).

Nothing contained in Sections 9.48.010 and 9.48.020 shall be deemed or construed to prohibit the selling, giving, loaning, or furnishing to any person under the age of eighteen years, upon the written consent of the parent or guardian of such person, any article mentioned in Sections 9.48.010 the 9.48.020; nor to prohibit any such person under the age of eighteen years from having in his or her possession, care, custody or control any article mentioned in Section 9.48.020 in the event that such possession, care, custody, or control of such article is had with the consent of the parent or guardian of such person and is under the direct supervision and control of some adult person; nor to prohibit any such person under the age of eighteen years from firing, discharging, shooting, or operating any article mentioned in Section 9.48.020 when such person is accompanied by, and under the direct care and control of, some adult person and is engaged in hunting any wild game or predatory bird or animal, if any, which may be lawfully hunted and killed in the city, or is lawfully engaged in shooting at any inanimate target, or trapshooting device, while accompanied by, and under the direct care and control of, some such adult person.

(Ord. 72 § 1(part) 1959: prior code § 4143).

A. As used in this section, 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, 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.

B. For purposes of such sections, the meaning of the term firearm is 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.

(Ord. 420 § 1(part), 1987).

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. 420 § 1(part), 1987).