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Clerk 09/04/2014
Title
AN ORDINANCE relating to property management by the King County sheriff's office; and amending Ordinance 10767, Sections 1 through 5, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.16.062.
Body
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Ordinance 10767, Sections 1 through 5, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.16.062, are each hereby amended to read as follows:
A. The ((D))definitions((:)) in this subsection apply throughout this section unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
1. "Antique firearms" means those firearms as defined by RCW 9.41.150 and firearms recognized as curios, relics, and firearms of particular historical significance by the United States treasury department bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms.
2. "Machine gun" means any firearm, weapon, mechanism, or instrument not requiring that the trigger be pressed for each shot and having a reservoir clip, disc, drum, belt, or other separable mechanical device for storing, carrying, or supplying ammunition which can be loaded into such weapon, mechanism, or instrument, and fired therefrom at the rate of five or more shots per second.
3. "Rifles and ((S))shotguns" means any firearm with a barrel length of twelve inches or longer, but shall not include machine guns ((as defined in this section)).
4. "Surplus firearms" means any firearm previously purchased, or converted to official use in accordance with RCW 63.40.010 by King County for use by the department of public safety or department of adult detention that are no longer serviceable or will become surplus as a result of those departments upgrading to newer weapons for duty service.
5. For purposes of this section only, "Handguns of potential value" means any handgun:
a. accepted as a duty weapon, or any type, make, model, and calibers normally used by law enforcement, (((i.e.)) that is, caliber .380 or larger(() and,));
b. manufactured after 1945 which has a curren...

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