8468-94 Amending Chapter 13 of the South Bend Municipal Code Selected Weapons & Instruments of Violence Prohibited

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Anti-Crime Ordinance Page 4 (k) Security guard services shall mean an entity or individual that engages in the business of providing security guard services to the public for hire. (1) Semi-automatic shall mean any weapon which fires a single projectile for each single pull of the trigger and which employs a magazine. (m) Shooting or Firing Range shall mean a place for target practice with firearms. (n) Shotgun shall have the meaning set forth in Indiana Code § 35-47-1-11. Sec. 13-92 Exceptions. (a) This Division shall not apply to any person listed as an "excepted persons" in Indiana Code § 35-47-2-2; individuals regulated and approved by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF); community correction officers, and individuals properly licensed or authorized by a BATF stamp to use such weapons in a City licensed shooting or firing range properly equipped and zoned for the use of such weapons. Such individuals shall be required to provide valid proof of their status as an exception to this Division upon reasonable request. (b) The definition of "assault weapon" as set forth in Section 13-91 shall not include any of the following: (1) Weapons that do not use fixed ammunition, weapons that were in production prior to 1898, manually operated bolt-action weapons, lever- action weapons, slide-action weapons, single-shot weapons, semi- automatic weapons which use exclusively manalicher-style clips, semi- automatic weapons manufactured prior to 1954, and rim-fire weapons that employ a tubular magazine. (2) Any antique or relic firearm; (3) 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. (c) Any assault weapon may be possessed by any federal, state, county or local historical society,museum or educational institution of higher learning which is open to the public, provided such assault weapon is properly housed and secured from unauthorized handling and is always kept unloaded. Sec. 13-93 Restrictions on the Possession and Manufacturing of Assault Weapons. (a) No person may manufacture any assault weapon, as defined herein, within the City of South Bend. (b) No person may possess any loaded assault weapon, as defined herein, within the City of South Bend,except as specifically provided herein.