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6.64.150 <br />Article II. Sale Of <br />Saturday Night Specials <br />6.64.150 Purpose: <br />The purpose of this Article is to ensure <br />the health, safety and general welfare of <br />the City of Pleasanton citizens by prohib- <br />iting in the City the sale of cheaply made, <br />inadequately designed and poorly manu- <br />factured handguns. (Ord. 1719 § 1, 1998) <br />6.64.160 Definitions: <br />Except as provided in Section 6.64.165 <br />of this Article, the term "Saturday night <br />special" as used in this Chapter shall <br />mean any of the following: <br />A. A pistol, revolver or firearm capable <br />of being concealed upon the person, as <br />those terms are defined in California <br />Penal Code section 12001(a), which pis- <br />tol, revolver or firearm contains a frame, <br />barrel, breechblock, cylinder or slide that <br />is not completely fabricated of heat-treat- <br />ed cazbon steel, forged alloy, or other <br />material of equal or higher tensile <br />strength. <br />B. A semiautomatic pistol that: <br />1. Is not originally equipped by the <br />manufacturer with alocked-breech action; <br />and <br />2. Is chambered for cartridges devel- <br />oping maximum permissible breech pres- <br />sures above 24,100 copper units of pres- <br />sure as standazdized by the Sporting Arms <br />and Ammunition Manufacturers Institute. <br />3. For purposes of this subsection B, <br />"semiautomatic pistol" shall mean a fire- <br />arm, as defined in California Penal Code <br />section 12001(b), that is designed to be <br />held and fired with one hand, and that <br />does the following upon dischazge: a) <br />fires the cartridge in the chamber; b) <br />ejects the fired cartridge case; and c) <br />loads a cartridge from the magazine into <br />the chamber. "Semiautomatic pistol" shall <br />not include any assault weapon designated <br />in California Penal Code section 12276. <br />C. A pistol, revolver, or firearm capa- <br />ble of being concealed upon the person, <br />as those terms are defined in California <br />Penal Code section 12001(a), that: <br />1. Uses an action mechanism that is <br />substantially identical in design to any <br />action mechanism manufactured in or be- <br />fore 1898 that was originally chambered <br />for rimfire ammunition developing max- <br />imum permissible breech pressure below <br />19,000 copper units of pressure as stan- <br />dazdized by the Sporting Arms and <br />Ammunition Manufacturers Institute; and <br />2. Is chambered to fire either centerfire <br />ammunition or rimfire ammunition devel- <br />oping maximum permissible breech pres- <br />sures above 19,000 copper units of pres- <br />sure as standazdized by the Sporting Arms <br />and Ammunition Manufacturers Institute; <br />and <br />3. Is not originally equipped by the <br />manufacturer with a nondetachable safety <br />guard surrounding the trigger; or <br />4. If rimfire, is equipped with a barrel <br />of less than 20 bore diameters in overall <br />length protruding from the frame. <br />5. For purposes of this subsection C, <br />"action mechanism" shall mean the mech- <br />anism of a fireazm by which it is loaded, <br />locked, fired and unloaded, commonly <br />known as the cycle of operation. (Ord. <br />1719 § 1, 1998) <br />(Pleasanton 5-99) 192-78 <br />