9.16.001 - Ammunition sales.

(a)

The term "firearm ammunition," as used in this section, shall include any ammunition for use in pistols, revolvers, rifles, shotguns, or any other 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.

(b)

Except as specified in subsections (c) and (d), no person, including retail gun dealers, shall sell, give, lend or transfer ownership of any firearm ammunition during any of the following periods:

(1)

During the seven days prior to the first day of January of each year or on the first day of January of each year;

(2)

During the seven days prior to the Fourth of July of each year or on the fourth day of July of each year;

(3)

During the seven days prior to the sixteenth day of September of each year or on the sixteenth day of September of each year.

(c)

Nothing in this section shall prohibit the sale or transfer of ownership of firearm ammunition by a wholesale gun dealer to another wholesale gun dealer or by a wholesale gun dealer to a retail gun dealer, or of ammunition requested by Section 12324 of the Penal Code.

(d)

Nothing in this section shall prohibit sale to or acquisition by any person described in Section 12302 or 12322 of the Penal Code.

(e)

The provisions of this section shall not apply to the sale of any firearm ammunition when such sale is prohibited by Sections 12303, 12303.6, 12304 or 12321 of the Penal Code, or is otherwise prohibited by Chapter 2.5, Title 2, Part 4, of the Penal Code.

(Ord. 444, 1991).