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CONNECTICUT: Legal w/
restrictions Connecticut Criminal Law Title 53 ˇV
Crimes, Title 53a ˇV Penal Code, title 54 Criminal
Procedure, Chapter 950 Section 53a-3 Definitions: (20)
"Electronic defense weapon" means a weapon which by
electronic impulse or current is capable of immobilizing
a person temporarily, but is not capable of inflicting
death or serious injury. ˇ±53-206. Carrying and sale of
dangerous weapons a. Any person who carries upon his
person's electronic defense weapon, as defined in 53a-3,
or any other dangerous or deadly weapon or instrument,
unless such person has been granted a written permit
issued and signed by the first selectman of a town, the
mayor or chief of police of a city or the warden of a
borough, authoring such person to carry such weapon or
instrument within such city or borough, shall be fined
not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not
more than three years or both. No permit shall be issued
to any applicant who has ever been convicted of a
felony. The issuing authority may request the
applicant's finger prints and full information
concerning his criminal record and make an investigation
concerning his criminal record and make an investigation
concerning the suitability of the applicant to carry any
such weapon. Refusal of fingerprinting by the applicant
shall be sufficient cause to refuse issuance of a
permit. Whenever any person is found guilty of a
violation of this subsection, any weapon or other
implement within the provisions hereof, found upon the
body of such person, shall be forfeited to the
municipality wherein such person was apprehended, not
withstanding any failure of the judgment of conviction
to expressly impose such forfeiture. Any person who has
been granted a permit to carry any martial arts weapon
pursuant to this section may carry such weapon anywhere
within the state. The provisions of this subsection
shall not apply to any officer charged with the
preservation of the public peace nor to any person who
is found with any such weapon or implement concealed
upon his person while lawfully removing his household
goods or effects from one place to another, or from one
residence to another, nor to any person while actually
and peaceably engaged in carrying any such weapon or
implement from his place of abode or business to a place
or person where or by whom such weapon or implements is
to be repaired, or while actually and peaceable
returning to his place of abode or business with such
weapon or implement after the same has been repaired.
(b) any person who sells to another's electronic defense
weapon, as defined in section 53a-3, shall, within
twenty-four hours after the deliver of such weapon or
implement to the person to whom sold, give written
notice of such sale or delivery, specifying the article
sold and the name and address of the person to whom sold
or delivered, to the chief of police of the city, the
warden of the borough or the first selectman of the
town, within which such weapon or implement is sold or
delivered, as the case may be. Any person who violates
any provision of this subsection shall be fined not more
than one hundred dollars.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Illegal District of
Columbia Law. DC Code Ann. Title 6, Chapter 23. Firearms
Control. Subchapter I. General Provisions 6-2302. (7)
"Destructive device" means: (B) "Any device by whatever
name known which will, or is designed, or may be readily
converted or restored to expel a projectile by the
action of an explosive or other propellant through a
smooth bore barrel, except a shotgun;" (D) Any device
designed or redesigned, made or remade, or readily
converted or restored, and intended to stun or disable a
person by means of electric shock. Subchapter II.
Firearms and Destructive Devices. General Provision
6-2311. Registration requirements. (a) Except as
otherwise provided in this chapter, no person or
organization in the District of Columbia ("District")
shall receive, possess, control, transfer, offer for
sale, sell, give, or deliver any destructive device, and
no person or organization in the District shall possess
or control any firearm, unless that person or
organization holds a valid registration certificate for
the firearm. Subchapter V. Sales and Transfer of
Firearms, Destructive Devices, and Ammunition. General
Provision 6-2351. Sales and transfers prohibited. No
person or organization shall sell, transfer or otherwise
dispose of any firearm, destructive device or ammunition
in the District except as provided in *** 6-2352, or
6-2375.
ILLINOIS: Legal with conditions (Illegal in
Chicago) Illinois State Law. Compiled Stat. Ann. Chapter
430. Public Safety ACT 65. Firearms Owners
Identification Card Act. Chapter 720. Criminal Law and
Procedure, Article 24. Deadly Weapons. 5/24-1 Unlawful
use of Weapons. (A) A person commits the offense of
unlawful use of weapons when he knowingly: **** (8)
Carries or possesses a firearm, stun gun or TASER or
other deadly weapon in any place which is licensed to
sell intoxicating beverages, or at any public gathering
held pursuant to a license issued by any governmental
body or any public gathering at which an admission is
charged, excluding a place where a showing,
demonstration or lecture involving the exhibition of
unloaded firearms is conducted; or (9) Carries or
possesses in a vehicle or on or about his person any
pistol, revolver, stun gun or TASER or firearm or
ballistic knife, when he is hooded, robed or masked in
such a manner as to conceal his identity; or (10)
Carries or possesses on or about his person, upon any
public street, alley, or other public lands within the
corporate limits of a city, village or incorporated
town, except when an invitee thereon or therein, for the
purpose of the display of such weapon or the lawful
commerce in weapons, except when on his land or in his
own abode or fixed place of business, any pistol,
revolver, stun or TASER or other firearm. A "stun gun or
TASER," as used in this paragraph (a) means (i) any
device which is powered by electrical charging units,
such as batteries, and which fires one or several barbs
attached to a length of wire and which, upon hitting a
human, can send out a current capable of disrupting
personˇ¦s nervous system in such a manner as to render
him incapable of normal functioning or (ii) any device
which is powered by electrical charging units, such as
batteries, and which, upon contact with a human or
clothing worn by a human, can send out a current capable
of disrupting the personˇ¦s nervous system in such a
manner as to render him incapable of normal functioning.
(b) Sentence. A person convicted of a violation of
Subsection 24-1(a)(8) and Subsection 24-1(a)(10) commits
a Class A misdemeanor; a person convicted of a violation
of Subsection 24(a)(9) commits a Class 4 felony. (c)(2)
A person who violates Subsection 24-1(a)(9) in any
school, regardless of the time of day or the time of
year or residential property owned, operated and managed
by a public housing agency or on the real property
comprising any school, regardless of the time of day or
the time of year or residential property owned, operated
and managed by a public housing agency or any conveyance
owned, leased or contracted by a school to transport
students to or from school or a school related activity
commits a Class 3 felony. School is defined as any
public or private elementary or secondary school,
community college, college or university. Article 24
5/24-1.1 Unlawful Use of Possession of Weapons by Felons
or Persons in the Custody of the Department of
Corrections Facilities. Section 24-1.1. Unlawful Use of
Possession of Weapons by Felons or Persons in the
Custody of the Department of Corrections Facilities. (a)
It is unlawful for a person to knowingly possess on or
about his person or on his land or in his abode or fixed
place of business any weapons prohibited under Section
24-1 of this Act or any firearm ammunition if the person
has been convicted of a felony under the law of the
State or any other jurisdiction. This section does not
apply if the person has been granted relief by the
Director of the Department of State Police pursuant to
Section 10 ***. Article 24 5/24-2 Exemptions (i) Nothing
in this Article shall prohibit, apply to, or affect the
transportation, carrying or possession, of any pistol or
revolver, stun gun, TASER, or other firearm consigned to
a Common Carrier operating under license of the State of
Illinois or the Federal Government, where such
transportation, carrying, or possession is incident to
the lawful transportation in which such Common Carrier
is engaged; and nothing in this Article shall prohibit,
apply to or affect the transportation, carrying or
possession of any pistol, revolver, stun gun, TASER, or
other firearm, not the subject of and regulated by
subsection 24-1(a)(7) or subsection 24-2(c) of this
Article, which is unloaded and enclosed in a case,
firearm carrying box, shipping box, or other container,
by the possessor of a valid Firearm Owners
Identification Card. SUMMARY: Possession of an STUN GUN,
STUN BATON or TASERS are unlawful when in corporate limits of a city or
incorporated town, school, in any place licensed to sell
intoxicating beverages, at any public gathering held
pursuant to a license issued by any governmental body or
any public gathering at which an admission is charged,
or when a personˇ¦s identity is concealed. Possession is
legal when on personˇ¦s land or in his own abode or
fixed place of business in Illinois.
CHICAGO: Illegal Publisherˇ¦s Note: The following
jurisdictions require waiting periods or notifications
to law enforcement officials before weapons may be
delivered to purchasers: Chicago (application
approval/denial for: (1) Registration : 120 days (2)
Re-registration: e.g. by an heir, 365 days)
MARYLAND: Legal
ANNAPOLIS: Illegal
BALTIMORE: Illegal (Including Baltimore County)
Baltimore City Code 115. Stun guns and similar devices.
(e) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or
corporation to sell, give away, lend, rent or transfer
to any individual, firm or corporation a stun gun or
other electronic device by whatever name or description
which discharges a non-projectile electric current
within the limits of the City of Baltimore. It further
shall be unlawful for any person to possess, fire or
discharge any such stun gun or electronic device within
the City. Nothing in this in this subsection shall be
held to apply to any member of the Baltimore City Police
Department or any other law enforcement officer while in
the performance of his or her official duty (Ord. 385.
1985).
HOWARD COUNTY, MD: Illegal Sec. 8.404. Sale or
possession of electronic weapons prohibited. It shall be
unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to sell,
give away, lend, rent or transfer to any individual,
firm or corporation an electronic weapon within the
limits of Howard County. It further shall be unlawful
for any person to possess, fire, discharge or activate
any electronic weapon within the limits of Howard
County. (C.B. 38 1985).
MASSACHUSETTS: Illegal Massachusetts State Law.
Ann. Laws of Massachusetts. Chapter 140. Sale of
Firearms. Section 131J: Sale or possession of electrical
weapons; penalties. Section 131J. No person shall sell,
offer for sale or possess a portable device or weapon
from which an electric current, impulse, wave or beam
may be directed, which current, impulse, wave or beam is
designed to incapacitate temporarily, injure or kill.
Whoever violates this provision of this section shall be
punished by a fine of not less than five hundred nor
more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment for
not less than six months nor more than two years in a
jail or house of correction, or both.
MICHIGAN: Illegal The Michigan Penal Code Act 328
of 1931. Chapter 750.224a Portable device or weapon
directing electrical current, impulse, wave, or beam;
sale or possession prohibited; testing. (1) A person
shall not sell, offer for sale, or possess in this state
a portable device or weapon from which an electric
current, impulse, wave or beam is designed to
incapacitate temporarily, injure, or kill. (3) A person
who violates this section is guilty of a felony.
NEW JERSEY: New Jersey State Law. New Jersey
Stat. Ann. Title 2C. New Jersey Code of Criminal
Justice. Chapter 39-1. Prohibited weapons and devices.
(Section r summarized from Chapter 2C:39-1) "Weapon"
means anything readily capable of lethal use or of
inflicting serious bodily injury. The term includes, but
is no limited to all (4) stun guns; and any weapon or
(this section refers to tear gas and has been updated in
1995) other device which projects, releases, or emits
tear gas or any other substance intended to produce
temporary physical discomfort or permanent injury
through being vaporized or otherwise dispensed in the
air. (t) "Stun gun" means any weapon or other device
which emits an electrical charge or current intended to
temporarily or permanently disable a person. Senate, No.
2871 -- L.1985, c. 360 Senate Bill No. 2781, as amended
by the Senate Law, Public Safety and Defense Committee,
prohibits as a crime of the fourth degree the possession
of a stun gun by any person, including a law enforcement
officer. A crime of the fourth degree carries a penalty
of imprisonment for up to 18 months, a fine of up to
$7,500, or both. Prior to being amended the bill
classified possession of a crime in the third degree. {Editorˇ¦s
Note: According to Len Lawson of NJ Legislative Council,
(609) 292-4625) NJ does not classify crimes in felonies
versus misdemeanors. The highest crimes are in first
degree on down to fourth degree. A fourth degree penalty
is a serious charge and is generally considered a
misdemeanor in common terms. It is however an indictable
offense. A fourth degree crime does contain "a
presumption of non-custodial sentencing;" meaning that
there is not imprisonment if there are no prior
convictions. In some cases the sentencing is obviated
from oneˇ¦s record if there is a period of good behavior
following the charge.} The committee amended the bill to
include a provision authorizing the Attorney General, at
his discretion, to exempt law enforcement officers from
the prohibition against possession stun guns. The bill
was also amended by the committee to include stun guns
in the definition of "weapon" in paragraph r. N.J.S.
2C:39-1. (Chapter 2C:39-1) (h) Stun guns. Any person who
knowingly has in his possession any stun gun is guilty
of a crime in the fourth degree.
NEW YORK: Illegal New York Consolidated Law (McKinneyˇ¦s)
Book 39. Penal Law. Article 265. Firearms and Other
Dangerous Weapons 265.00 15-a. "Electronic dart gun"
means any device designed primarily as a weapon, the
purpose of which is to momentarily stun, knock out or
paralyze a person by passing an electrical shock to such
person by means of a dart or projectile. 15-c.
"Electronic stun gun" means any device designed
primarily as a weapon, the purpose of which is to
momentarily stun, cause mental disorientation, knock out
or paralyze a person by passing a high voltage
electrical shock to such person. Article 265.01 Criminal
possession of a weapon in the fourth degree. A person is
guilty of criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth
degree when: (1) He possesses any firearm, electronic
dart gun, electronic stun gun ***; or ***
NEW YORK CITY: Illegal Administrative Code of the
City of New York 10-135 Prohibition on sale and
possession of electronic stun guns. a. As used in this
section, "electronic stun gun" shall mean any device
designed primarily as a weapon, the purpose of which is
to stun, render unconscious or paralyze a person by
passing an electronic shock to such person, but shall
not include an "electronic dart gun" as such term is
defined in section 265.00 of the penal law. b. It shall
be unlawful for any person to sell or offer for sale or
to have in his or her possession within the jurisdiction
of the city any electronic gun. c. Violation of this
section shall be a class A misdemeanor. [Exemptions
under this section are provided for police officers
operating under regular department procedure or
guidelines and for manufacturers of electronic stun guns
scheduled for bulk shipment. NOTE: The electronic stun
gun is not a "firearm" under the Federal Gun Control Act
of 1968 because it does not "...expel a projectile by
the action of an explosive..."]
OHIO ˇV LYNN COUNTY/CEDAR RAPIDS: Illegal Lynn
County Missile Ordinance. Unknown code. Per Capt. Galen
Schwarz of Lynn County, Cedar Rapids, IA, (ph:
319-398-3911) there is a county ordinance that outlaws
any device that uses a projectile and "missile" in
public. Moreover, any stun gun in public requires the
user to have a concealed weapons permit. By litteral
translation, Capt. Schwartz states that technically,
this includes even "snowballs" and the "AIR TASER."
NOTE: The AIR TASER can be used, however, in the place
of business or at home.
PHILADELPHIA: Illegal Philadelphia City
Ordinance. Statute 10-825 Stun Guns. (1) Definitions.
(a) Stun Gun. Any device which expels or projects a
projectile which, upon coming in contact with a person,
is capable of inflicting injury or an electric shock to
such person. (2) Prohibited conduct. Nor person shall
own, use, possess, sell or otherwise transfer any "stun
gun." (3) Penalty. Any person violating any provision of
this section shall be subject to a fine or not more than
three hundred (300) dollars and /or imprisonment for not
more than ninety (90 days.)
RHODE ISLAND: Illegal General Laws of Rhode
Island. Title 11, Chapter 47. Statute Subsection
11-47-42. Weapons other than firearms prohibited. - (A)
No person shall carry or possess or attempt to use
against another, any instrument or weapon of the kind
commonly known as a *** stun gun ***. Any person
violating the provisions of this subsection, shall be
punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars
($500), or by imprisonment for not more than one (1)
year, or both such fine and imprisonment, and the weapon
so found shall be confiscated.
WISCONSIN: Illegal Wisconsin Sta. Ann. Chapter
939. Crimes - General Provisions. Chapter 939.22 Words
and phrases defined. (10) Dangerous weapon" means any
firearm, whether loaded or unloaded ***; any device
designed as a weapon and capable of producing great harm
***; any electric weapon, as defined in s. 941.295(4);
or any other device or instrumentality which, in the
manner it is used or intended to be used, is calculated
or likely to produce death or great bodily harm. Chapter
941.295 Possession of electric weapon. Subsection (1) On
or after July 1, 1982, whoever sells, transports,
manufactures, possesses or goes armed with any electric
weapon is guilty of a Class E felony. Subsection (4) In
this section, "electric weapon" means any device which
is designed, redesigned, used or intended to be used,
offensively or defensively, to immobilize or
incapacitate persons by the use electric current. |
