It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association to discharge, shoot, or cause to be discharged or shot, any bow, crossbow or arrow or bolt or other projectile upon the public property owned by the city.
(Ordinance 88, sec. 1, adopted –/–/–; 2004 Code, sec. 8.50)
Firearm
means any device designed, made, or adapted to expel a projectile through a barrel by using the energy generated by an explosion or burning substance, or any device readily convertible to that use.
(Ordinance 89, sec. 1, adopted –/–/–; 2004 Code, sec. 8.40)
Subject to the exceptions set forth in section 8.03.034 of this article, it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association to discharge, or cause to be discharged, any firearm at any place within the city limits.
(Ordinance 89, sec. 1, adopted –/–/–; 2004 Code, sec. 8.41)
(a) 
Subject to the exceptions set forth in section 8.03.034 of this article, it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association to discharge, or cause to be discharged, any BB gun, pellet gun, or paintball gun operated by compressed air or compressed gas or spring powered firearm at any place within the city limits.
(b) 
This section shall not prohibit the firing of BB gun, pellet gun, or paintball gun by an adult or by a minor under the direct visual supervision of an adult so long as such discharge occurs on private property owned or lawfully occupied by the supervising adult and as long as the discharged projectile does not exit the boundaries of such private property.
(Ordinance 89, sec. 2, adopted –/–/–; 2004 Code, sec. 8.42)
Nothing herein shall be construed to apply to the use of firearms:
(1) 
In exhibitions of charitable contests conducted under conditions and supervision approved by the board of aldermen after application has been made to the city and a permit has been issued;
(2) 
By duly qualified and commissioned peace officers in the performance of the official duties of their office;
(3) 
For the protection of a person or property in or about his home in accordance with the laws of the state.
(Ordinance 89, sec. 3, adopted –/–/–; 2004 Code, sec. 8.43)