Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Air Gun Laws
Below of the laws and regulations for the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania pertaining to airguns, BB guns, pellet guns and other non-powder burning firearms:
CHAPTER 10-800. SAFETY
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§10-810. Weapons and Dangerous Devices.
(1) Discharging Firearms.[158] No person shall fire or discharge recklessly and without reasonable cause any rifle, gun, pistol, or other firearm.
(2) Water Pistols, Electric Canes, and Miniature Cannon.[159]
(a) No one shall sell or offer for sale water pistols, electric canes, miniature cannon, or similar articles.[160]
(b) No one shall use water pistols, electric canes, miniature cannon or similar articles in any street or public place.
(3) Spring Guns, Air Guns and Bows and Arrows.[161]
(a) No person shall sell, offer for sale at retail, or use, or possess with intent to use, any air gun, spring gun, or any implement not a firearm which forcefully impels a pellet of any kind.
(b) No person shall sell, or offer for sale, at retail, any bow and arrow, to any person under the age of twenty-one (21) years unless the seller first obtains written evidence of parental consent to the proposed purchase by the minor.[162]
(4) Switchblade Knives.[163] No person shall sell, offer for sale or carry any knife with a blade which is released by a spring mechanism including knives known as “switchblades.”
(5) Incendiary Paper. No person shall manufacture, sell, offer for sale, carry or store any incendiary paper that has been chemically treated to vanish at the touch of a flame, including paper known as “flash paper.”[164]
(6) Penalties. Whoever violates any provision of this Section or Section 10-821 shall, in addition to other penalties provided, forfeit the weapon, contraband, or dangerous device giving rise to the violation of such section.[165]
(7) Confiscation. Police officers shall seize and deliver into departmental custody any air gun, air pistol, spring gun, switch blade knife, incendiary paper, contraband weapons, accessories and/or ammunition or other implement which shall be used, discharged, possessed, offered for sale or carried in violation of Section 10-810 or Section 10-821.[166]
Brief Overview Of Pennsylvania State Laws Concerning Air Guns
Pennsylvania state law prohibits the following:
•You cannot sell, lend, give, or otherwise transfer any air gun to any person under age 18, except where the relationship of parent and child, guardian and ward or adult instructor and pupil exists between such person and the person under age 18.
•An air gun dealer cannot sell, lend, rent, give, or otherwise transfer an air gun to any person under age 18, where the dealer knows, or has reasonable cause to believe, the person to be under age 18, or where such dealer has failed to make reasonable inquiry relative to the age of such person, and such person is under age 18.
•Any person under age 18 cannot carry any air gun on highways or public lands unless accompanied by an adult, except that a person under age 18 may carry such air gun is unloaded in a suitable case.