10.52.030 Dangerous weapons – Use, possession, concealing, sales and manufacture.
A. Unlawful Activities. It is unlawful for a person knowingly to:
1. Manufacture, sell, possess, purchase, carry or dispose of any switchblade knife or balisong knife or any instrument or weapon of the kind usually known as a blackjack, slingshot, sandclub, metal knuckles, chako sticks or throwing stars;
2. Carry concealed or unconcealed on his or her person any dangerous knife or dangerous weapon other than a pistol;
3. Sell or give away to any person under 18 years of age any dangerous knife, fixed blade knife, switchblade knife, blowgun or dangerous weapon;
4. Sell any airgun to any person under 18 years of age;
5. Carry with intent to conceal any dirk, airgun or blowgun;
6. Furtively carry a pistol with intent to conceal; or
7. Use any contrivance or device for suppressing the noise of any firearm.
B. Exemptions.
1. Chako Sticks and Throwing Stars. The proscriptions of subsection (A)(1) relating to chako sticks and throwing stars shall not apply to or affect regularly enrolled members of clubs and associations organized for the practice, instruction or demonstration of self-defense arts involving chako sticks or throwing stars while such members are at or are going to or from their place of residence, a practice session, an instruction session, a demonstration or a place of repair, or while such members are going from the place of purchase; provided further, that the proscriptions of subsection (A)(1) of this section concerning the manufacture and sales of chako sticks and throwing stars shall not apply to such clubs and organizations when chako sticks are manufactured for or sold to regularly enrolled members for use at a practice or instructions session or demonstration.
2. Dangerous Knives. The proscriptions of subsection (A)(2) of this section shall not apply to:
a. Licensed hunters or licensed fishermen or hunters or fishermen exempt from licensing requirements under state law, actively engaged in hunting and fishing activity including education and travel related thereto;
b. Any person immediately engaged in an activity related to a lawful occupation which commonly requires the use of such knife, provided such knife is carried unconcealed; provided further, that a dangerous knife carried openly in a sheath suspended from the waste of a person is not concealed within the meaning of this subsection;
c. Any person carrying such knife in a secure wrapper or in a tool box while traveling from the place of purchase, from or to a place of repair, or from or to such person’s home or place of business, or moving from one place of abode or business to another, or while in such person’s place of abode or fixed place of business.
3. The proscriptions of this section shall not apply to any collector of weapons or museum where such weapons are contained in a secure case intended for display or otherwise secured such that they are not accessible to unauthorized persons.
C. Minors. It is unlawful for any person under 18 years of age to possess any blowgun, airgun, dangerous knife or deadly weapon, other than a firearm, except when under the direct supervision of an adult.
D. Penalty. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor. (Ord. 1728 § 3, 1989)