Pasadena Municipal Code Ch. 8.85 Weapons—sales Prohibited on City Property and in City Facilities

A. "Assault weapon" means, except as provided in subsection C of this section, the following:

1. Any semiautomatic action, center fire rifle or carbine which was designed to accept a detachable magazine with a capacity of twenty 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, Thompson semiautomatic carbines and any other semiautomatic carbines manufactured by Auto Ordnance;

2. Any weapon which may be readily restored to an operable assault weapon, as defined in subdivision 1 of this subsection; and

3. Any part, or combination of parts, designed or intended to convert a weapon into an assault weapon, as defined in subdivision 1 of this subsection, 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. "Semiautomatic" means a weapon which fires a single projectile for each single pull of the trigger and which employs a magazine.

C. "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; 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 failing 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. "Pistol, revolver and firearm capable of being concealed upon the person" means any device designed to be used as a weapon from which is expelled a projectile by the force of any explosion or other form of combustion and which has a barrel less than twelve inches in length.

(Ord. 6331 § 1 (part), 1989)

No person, except for a licensed federal firearms dealer, shall sell, offer or display for sale, lease, give, lend or transfer ownership of any assault weapon or pistol, revolver and firearm capable of being concealed upon the person on any city property or in any city facility.

(Ord. 6331 § 1 (part), 1989)