Seattle Mun. Code § 12A.14.010 Definitions
12A.14.010 - Definitions
The following definitions apply in this Chapter 12A.14:
"Air gun" means any air pistol or air rifle designed to propel a BB, pellet or other projectile by the discharge of compressed air, carbon dioxide or other gas.
"Assemble" means to fit together component parts.
"Chako stick" means a device designed primarily as a weapon, consisting of two or more lengths of wood, metal, plastic, or similar substance connected by wire, rope, chain, or other means so as to allow free movement of a portion of the device while held in the hand and capable of being rotated in such a manner as to inflict injury upon a person by striking.
"Curio or relic" has the same meaning as provided in 27 C.F.R. § 478.11.
"Dangerous knife" means any fixed-blade knife and any other knife having a blade more than 3 1/2 inches in length.
"Distribute" means to give out, provide, make available, or deliver a firearm or large capacity magazine to any person in the City, with or without consideration, whether the distributor is in the City or outside of the City. "Distribute" includes, but is not limited to, filling orders placed in the City, online or otherwise. "Distribute" also includes causing a firearm or large capacity magazine to be delivered in the City.
"Federal firearms dealer" means a licensed dealer as defined in 18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(11).
"Federal firearms importer" means a licensed importer as defined in 18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(9).
"Federal firearms manufacturer" means a licensed manufacturer as defined in 18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(10).
"Firearm" means a weapon or device from which a projectile may be fired by an explosive such as gunpowder. "Firearm" does not include a flare gun or other pyrotechnic visual distress signaling device, or a powder-actuated tool or other device designed solely to be used for construction purposes.
"Fixed-blade knife" means any knife, regardless of blade length, with a blade which is permanently open and does not fold, retract, or slide into the handle of the knife, and includes any dagger, sword, bayonet, bolo knife, hatchet, axe, straight-edged razor, or razor blade not in a package, dispenser, or shaving appliance.
"Frame or receiver" means a part of a firearm that, when the complete firearm is assembled, is visible from the exterior and provides housing or a structure designed to hold or integrate one or more fire control components, even if pins or other attachments are required to connect the fire control components. Any such part identified with a serial number shall be presumed, absent an official determination by the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms, and explosives or other reliable evidence to the contrary, to be a frame or receiver. For purposes of this definition, "fire control component" means a component necessary for the firearm to initiate, complete, or continue the firing sequence, including any of the following: hammer, bolt, bolt carrier, breechblock, cylinder, trigger mechanism, firing pin, striker, or slide rails.
"Import" means to move, transport, or receive an item from a place outside the territorial limits of the City to a place inside the territorial limits of the City. "Import" does not mean situations where an individual possesses a large capacity magazine when departing from, and returning to, the City so long as the individual is returning to the City in possession of the same large capacity magazine the individual transported out of the City.
"Large capacity magazine" means an ammunition feeding device with the capacity to accept more than ten rounds of ammunition, or any conversion kit, part, or combination of parts, from which such a device can be assembled if those parts are in possession of or under the control of the same person, but shall not be construed to include any of the following:
1. An ammunition feeding device that has been permanently altered so that it cannot accommodate more than ten rounds of ammunition;
2. A .22 caliber tube ammunition feeding device; or
3. A tubular magazine that is contained in a lever-action firearm.
"Licensed collector" means a person who is federally licensed under 18 U.S.C. § 923(b).
"Licensed dealer" means a person who is federally licensed under 18 U.S.C. § 923(a).
"Manufacture" means, with respect to a firearm or large capacity magazine, the fabrication, making, formation, production or construction of a firearm or large capacity magazine, by manual labor or by machinery.
"Metal knuckles" means any device or instrument made wholly or partially of metal that is worn for purposes of offense or defense in or on the hand and that either protects the wearer's hand while striking a blow or increases the force of impact from the blow or injury to the person receiving the blow. The metal contained in the device may help support the hand or fist, provide a shield to protect it or consist of projections or studs which would contact the person receiving a blow.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, company, association, firm, partnership, club, organization, society, joint stock company, or other legal entity.
"Personal protection spray device" means a commercially available dispensing device designed and intended for use in self-defense and containing a nonlethal sternutator or lacrimator agent, including but not limited to:
A. Tear gas, the active ingredient of which is either chloracetophenone (CN) or O-chlorobenzylidene malonotrile (CS); or
B. Other agent commonly known as mace, pepper mace, or pepper gas.
"Pistol" means any firearm with a barrel less than 16 inches in length, or designed to be held and fired by the use of a single hand.
"Rifle" means a weapon designed or redesigned, made or remade, and intended to be fired from the shoulder and designed or redesigned, made or remade, and intended to use the energy of the explosive in a fixed metallic cartridge to fire only a single projectile through a rifled bore for each single pull of the trigger.
"Sale" and "sell" mean the actual approval of the delivery of a firearm in consideration of payment or promise of payment.
"Slungshot" means a weight affixed or attached to a cord, chain or cloth.
"Switchblade knife" means any knife having a blade that opens automatically by hand pressure applied to a button, spring mechanism, or other device, or a blade that opens, falls or is ejected into position by force of gravity or by an outward, downward, or centrifugal thrust or movement, and includes what is commonly known as a "butterfly knife."
"Throwing star" means a multi-pointed metal object designed to embed upon impact from any aspect.
"Transfer" means the intended delivery of a firearm to another person without consideration of payment or promise of payment including, but not limited to, gifts and loans. "Transfer" does not include the delivery of a firearm owned or leased by an entity licensed or qualified to do business in the state of Washington to, or return of such a firearm by, any of that entity's employees or agents, defined to include volunteers participating in an honor guard, for lawful purposes in the ordinary course of business.
"Unfinished frame or receiver" means a frame or receiver that is partially complete, disassembled, or inoperable, that: (i) has reached a stage in manufacture where it may readily be completed, assembled, converted, or restored to a functional state; or (ii) is marketed or sold to the public to become or be used as the frame or receiver of a functional firearm once finished or completed, including without limitation products marketed or sold to the public as an 80 percent frame or receiver or unfinished frame or receiver.
For purposes of this definition:
1. "Readily" means a process that is fairly or reasonably efficient, quick, and easy, but not necessarily the most efficient, speedy, or easy process. Factors relevant in making this determination, with no single one controlling, include the following:
a. Time, i.e., how long it takes to finish the process;
b. Ease, i.e., how difficult it is to do so;
c. Expertise, i.e., what knowledge and skills are required;
d. Equipment, i.e., what tools are required;
e. Availability, i.e., whether additional parts are required, and how easily they can be obtained;
f. Expense, i.e., how much it costs;
g. Scope, i.e., the extent to which the subject of the process must be changed to finish it; and
h. Feasibility, i.e., whether the process would damage or destroy the subject of the process, or cause it to malfunction.
2. "Partially complete," as it modifies frame or receiver, means a forging, casting, printing, extrusion, machined body, or similar article that has reached a stage in manufacture where it is clearly identifiable as an unfinished component part of a firearm.
(Ord. 126691, § 20, 2022; Ord. 125345, § 5, 2017; Ord. 125254, § 9, 2017; Ord. 124684, § 14, 2015; Ord. 123395, § 9, 2010; Ord. 117157, § 2, 1994; Ord. 116872, § 11, 1993; Ord. 113547, § 1, 1987; Ord. 112103, § 1, 1985; Ord. 110785, § 1, 1982; Ord. 110462, § 1, 1982; Ord. 103472, § 1, 1974; Ord. 102843, § 12A.17.010, 1973.)