California Elections Code

§ 18580

ELEC § 18580 Effective Sep 24, 2024Div. 18 · Ch. 6 · Art. 5

Statute text

For the purposes of this article, the following definitions apply:

(a)“Firearm” means a device designed to be used as a weapon, from which a projectile is expelled through a barrel by the force of an explosion or other form of combustion. It includes any firearm that is in the nature of an air gun, spring gun or pistol, or other weapon in which the propelling force is a spring, an elastic band, carbon dioxide, compressed or other gas or vapor, or air or compressed air, or is ignited by compressed air, and that ejects a bullet or missile smaller than three-eighths of an inch in diameter with sufficient force to injure a person that is so substantially similar in coloration and overall appearance to an existing firearm or weapon as to lead a reasonable person to perceive that the device is a firearm or weapon.

(b)“Imitation firearm” has the same meaning as in Section 16700 of the Penal Code.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2024, Ch. 533, Sec. 2. (AB 2642) Effective September 24, 2024.