541

It shall be a misdemeanor, punishable as provided in § 546 of this title, to bear, carry, transport, possess or sell any weapon, instrument or device whose general configuration conforms to that of a revolver or pistol and which is capable of detonating blank shells, blank cartridges or any other unit not provided with a missile, that could produce explosion through combustion, including among such weapons, instruments or devices, those revolvers, pistols, instruments and devices known by the name of starter’s pistols, blank cartridge pistols, blank cartridge revolvers, blank starter’s pistols, blank pistols, blank revolvers, blank starter’s revolvers, or any others whose general configuration conforms to those of a revolver or pistol and which fire blank cartridges, blank capsules, or blank shells. By blank capsule, blank shell or blank cartridge shall be understood any hollow unit, cylindric or cubic in form, not provided with a missile, containing in its interior any chemical agent or compound capable of producing explosion by combustion, and provided with a percussion-sensitive detonator. History —June 25, 1965, No. 88, p. 220, § 1.