As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
FIREARM
Any pistol, revolver, rifle, shotgun, machine gun, automatic and
semiautomatic rifle or other firearm, as the term is commonly used, or any
gun, device or instrument in the nature of a weapon from which may be fired
or ejected any solid projectile, ball, slug, pellet, missile or bullet or
any gas, vapor or other noxious thing by means of a cartridge or shell or
by the action of an explosive or the igniting of flammable or explosive substances.
It shall also include, without limitation, any firearm which is in the nature
of any air gun, spring gun or pistol, carbon dioxide or compressed air gun
or pistol or other weapon of a similar nature in which the propelling force
is a spring, elastic band, carbon dioxide, compressed or other gas or vapor,
air or compressed air, or is ignited by compressed air, and ejecting a bullet
or missile smaller than 3/8 of an inch in diameter, with sufficient force
to injure a person.
No person shall discharge any firearm, hunting arrow or dart within
the borough unless such person is actually engaged in the defense of life,
person or property.
This chapter shall not apply to police officers or others authorized
by law to carry and discharge firearms in the performance of their duties.
Any person who violates any provision of this chapter shall, upon conviction
thereof, be subject to a fine not to exceed $1,000 or to imprisonment for
a term not to exceed 90 days, or both.