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2007-10-29 03:25:58 · 2 answers · asked by mikemcgraw3 1 in Politics & Government Law & Ethics

Does the deffition include a bow and arrow (used for deer hunting)?

2007-10-29 03:48:20 · update #1

2 answers

What I find fascinating about the quoted statute is that throughout it they use the incorrect term.

A law is an ordinance, but a gun is a piece of ordnance.

2007-10-29 04:16:46 · answer #1 · answered by jurydoc 7 · 0 0

OHIO REVISED CODE
Title 29. Crimes - Procedure
Chapter 2923. Conspiracy, Attempt,
Complicity; Weapons Control;Activity
Weapons Control

(K) "Dangerous ordinance" means any of
the following, except as provided in division (L)
of this section:
(1) Any automatic or sawed-off firearm, zipgun,
or ballistic knife;
(2) Any explosive device or incendiary device;
(3) Nitroglycerin, nitrocellulose, nitrostarch,
PETN, cyclonite, TNT, picric acid, and other high
explosives; amatol, tritonal, tetrytol, pentolite,
pecretol, cyclotol, and other high explosive compositions;
plastic explosives; dynamite, blasting
gelatin, gelatin dynamite, sensitized ammonium
nitrate, liquid-oxygen blasting explosives, blasting
powder, and other blasting agents; and any
other explosive substance having sufficient brisance
or power to be particularly suitable for use
as a military explosive, or for use in mining,
quarrying, excavating, or demolitions;
(4) Any firearm, rocket launcher, mortar, artillery
piece, grenade, mine, bomb, torpedo, or
similar weapon, designed and manufactured for
military purposes, and the ammunition for that
weapon;
(5) Any firearm muffler or silencer;
(6) Any combination of parts that is intended
by the owner for use in converting any firearm or
other device into a dangerous ordinance.
(L) "Dangerous ordinance" does not include
any of the following:
(1) Any firearm, including a military weapon
and the ammunition for that weapon, and regardless
of its actual age, that employs a percussion
cap or other obsolete ignition system, or
that is designed and safe for use only with black
powder;
(2) Any pistol, rifle, or shotgun, designed or
suitable for sporting purposes, including a military
weapon as issued or as modified, and the
ammunition for that weapon, unless the firearm
is an automatic or sawed-off firearm;
(3) Any cannon or other artillery piece that, regardless
of its actual age, is of a type in accepted
use prior to 1887, has no mechanical,
hydraulic, pneumatic, or other system for absorbing
recoil and returning the tube into battery
without displacing the carriage, and is designed
and safe for use only with black powder;
(4) Black powder, priming quills, and percussion
caps possessed and lawfully used to fire a
cannon of a type defined in division (L)(3) of this
section during displays, celebrations, organized
matches or shoots, and target practice, and
smokeless and black powder, primers, and percussion
caps possessed and lawfully used as a
propellant or ignition device in small-arms or
small-arms ammunition;
(5) Dangerous ordinance that is inoperable or
inert and cannot readily be rendered operable or
activated, and that is kept as a trophy, souvenir,
curio, or museum piece.
(6) Any device that is expressly excepted from
the definition of a destructive device pursuant to
the "Gun Control Act of 1968," 82 Stat. 1213, 18
U.S.C. 921(a)(4), as amended, and regulations
issued under that act.

2007-10-29 10:35:31 · answer #2 · answered by hexeliebe 6 · 1 0

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