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To: RobRoy
No, silly. It clearly said explosive or "compressed gas" and a projectile.

Not in MN, but in searching for the legal definition, I found a Riverside CA site that had this definition of "Firearm"

Section 9.12.010 Definition of firearm.

In this chapter, "firearm" means a gun, pistol, rifle, air rifle or air gun, b-b gun, arrow, crossbow, or any other instrument of any kind, character or description which throws or projects a bullet or missile or substance by means of elastic force, air, or explosive substance likely to cause bodily harm. (Ord. 6423 § 1, 1998; prior code § 35.1)

It looks like I've found a place where a squirt gun could be classed as a firearm, depending on how broadly "elastic force" is interpreted.

107 posted on 12/16/2006 10:24:42 PM PST by El Gato
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To: El Gato
It looks like I've found a place where a squirt gun could be classed as a firearm, depending on how broadly "elastic force" is interpreted.

It's unclear what the phrase "likely to cause bodily harm" means. I don't think a direct-pump squirtgun would qualify in any case, though a pneumatic one like a Super-Soaker® might. On the other hand, a can of oven cleaner would seem to qualify even more, since it throws a substance by means of compressed gas and would be very likely to cause bodily harm.

116 posted on 12/17/2006 9:33:04 PM PST by supercat (Sony delenda est.)
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