Term
| #1 – Define the term deadly weapon. |
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Definition
| • Any instrument, device, or thing capable of inflicting death, and designed or specially adapted for use as a weapon, or possessed, carried, or used as a weapon |
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| #2 – Define the term firearm. |
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Definition
| • Any deadly weapon capable of expelling or propelling one or more projectiles by the action of an explosive or combustible propellant |
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Term
| #3 – Define the term handgun. |
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Definition
| • Any firearm that has a short stock and is designed to be held and fired by the use of a single hand; and any combination of parts from which a handgun can be assembled |
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| #4 – Define the term semi-automatic firearm |
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Definition
| • Any firearm designed or specially adapted to fire a single cartridge and automatically chamber a succeeding cartridge ready to fire, with a single function of the trigger |
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Term
| #5 – Define the term sawed-off firearm. |
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Definition
| • A shotgun with a barrel less than 18 inches long, or a rifle with a barrel less than 16 inches long, or a shotgun or rifle less than 26 inches long overall |
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Term
| #6 – Define the term dangerous ordnance. |
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Definition
• Any automatic or sawed-off firearm, zip-gun, or ballistic knife
• Any explosive device or incendiary device
• Nitroglycerin, nitrocellulose, nitrostarch, PETN, cyclonite, TNT, picric acid, and other high explosives; amatol, tritonal, tetrytol, pentolite, pecretol, cyclotol, and other high explosive compositions; plastic explosives; dynamite, blasting gelatin, gelatin dynamite, sensitized ammonium nitrate, liquid-oxygen blasting explosives, blasting powder, and other blasting agents; and any other explosive substance having sufficient brisance or power to be particularly suitable for use as a military explosive, or for use in mining, quarrying, excavating, or demolitions
• Any firearm, rocket launcher, mortar, artillery piece, grenade, mine, bomb, torpedo, or similar weapon, designed and manufactured for military purposes, and the ammunition for that weapon
• Any firearm muffler or silencer
• Any combination of parts that is intended by the owner for use in converting any firearm or other device into a dangerous ordnance |
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Term
| Carrying Concealed Weapons (CCW) |
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Definition
• Division A
o Knowingly…
o Carry or have concealed…
o On person’s person or concealed ready at hand…
A deadly weapon other than a handgun OR
A handgun other than a dangerous ordnance OR
A dangerous ordnance
• Division B
o Having been issues a concealed handgun license…
o If the person is stopped for a law enforcement purpose and is carrying a concealed handgun…
Fail to promptly inform any law enforcement officer who approaches of the person’s license and that a concealed handgun is being carried OR
Knowingly fail to keep the person’s hands in plain sight after any officer begins approaching the person while stopped and before the officer leaves OR
o If the person is stopped for a LE purpose, and is carrying a concealed handgun, and if the person is approached by any LEO while stopped…
Knowingly remove or attempt to remove the loaded handgun from the place in which the person is carrying it OR
Knowingly grasp or hold the loaded handgun OR
Knowingly have contact with the loaded handgun by touching it with the person’s hands or fingers…
Any time after the officer begins approaching and before the officer leaves OR
o If the person is stopped for a LE purpose and is carrying a concealed handgun…
Knowingly disregard or fail to comply with any lawful order of any LEO given while the person is stopped…
Including, but not limited to, a specific order to the person to keep the person’s hands in plain sight
(M-1 to F-3) |
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Term
| Illegal Possession of Firearm in Liquor Permit Premises |
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Definition
• Possess…
• A firearm…
• In any room in which any person is consuming beer or intoxicating liquor in a premises for which a D permit has been issued
• In an open air arena for which a permit of that nature has been issued
(F-5 to F-3) |
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Term
| Illegal Conveyance or Possession of Deadly Weapon or Dangerous Ordnance or an Object Indistinguishable From Firearm in School Safety Zone |
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Definition
• Division A
o Knowingly…
o Convey or attempt to convey…
o A deadly weapon or dangerous ordnance
o In a school safety zone
• Division B
o Knowingly…
o Possess…
o A deadly weapon or dangerous ordnance…
o In a school safety zone
• Division C
o Knowingly
o Possess…
o An object…
o In a school safety zone WHEN
The object is indistinguishable from a firearm, whether or not the object is capable of being fired AND
The person indicates that the person possesses the object and that it is a firearm, or the person knowingly displays or brandishes the object and indicates that it is a firearm
(M-1 to F-5) |
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Term
| Having Weapons While Under Disability |
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Definition
• Unless relieved of disability…
• Knowingly…
• Have, acquire, carry, or use…
• Any firearm or dangerous ordnance IF
o Fugitive from justice OR
o Under Indictment or prior conviction of felony offense of violence OR
o Adjudicated delinquent child for commission of a felony offense of violence OR
o Under indictment or prior conviction for any felony offense involving the illegal possession, use,administration, sale, or trafficking of any drug of abuse OR
o Adjuticated delinquent child for any offense involving illegal possession, use, sale, or trafficking of any drug of abuse, if commited by an adult, would have been a felony offense OR
o Drug dependent, in danger of drug dependence, or chronic alcoholic OR
o Under adjudication of mental incompetence, has been adjudicated as a mental defective, has been committed to a mental institution, has been found by court to be a mentally ill person subject to hospitalization by court order, or is an involuntary patient
(F-3) |
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Term
| Using Weapons While Intoxicated |
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Definition
• Use or carry…
• Any firearm or dangerous ordnance…
• While under the influence of alcohol or any drug of abuse
(M-1) |
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Term
| Improperly Handling Firearms in a Motor Vehicle |
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Definition
• Division A
o Knowingly…
o Discharge a firearm…
o While in or on a motor vehicle
• Division B
o Knowingly…
o Transport or have a loaded firearm in a motor vehicle WHEN
The firearm is accessible to the operator and/or passenger
Without leaving the vehicle
• Division C
o Knowingly…
o Transport or have a firearm in a motor vehicle UNLESS
o The person may lawfully possess that firearm…
o The firearm is unloaded AND
o Carried in one of the following ways…
In a closed box, package, or case OR
In a compartment that can be reached only by leaving the vehicle OR
In plain sight and secured in a rack or holder made for that purpose OR
If the fire arm is at least 24in overall length, And barrel 18in in length, action open or stipped
• Division D
o Knowingly…
o Transport or have a loaded handgun in a motor vehicle…
o If at any time of that transportation or possession…
The person is under the influence of alcohol, drug of abuse, or a combo OR
The person has a concentration of alcohol prohibited for a persons operating a motor vehicle
• Division E
o Having been issued a CCW permit
o If licensed person is the driver or occupant who is transporting or has a loaded handgun in ANY manner AND the vehicle is stopped for a traffic stop or another LE purpose, the person SHALL…
Promptly inform any LEO who approaches the vehicle that the person has a license to carry And is then carrying in the vehicle OR
Promptly infor the employee of the unit who approaches the vehichle of the same above OR
Knowingly…
• Fail to remain in the motor vehicle OR
• Fail to keep his hands in plain sight at any time after the officer begins approaching the person AND before the officer leaves UNLESS
• In accordance with directions given by the LEO OR
Knowingly…
• Contact the loaded handgun by touching it with the persons hands or fingers after the LEO begins approaching and before the LEO leaves,
• Disregard or fail to comply with ANY lawful order of and LEO
(M-4 to F-5) |
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Term
| Improperly Discharging Firearm at or into a Habitation, in a School Safety Zone or with Intent to cause Harm or Panic to Persons in a School Building or at a School Function |
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Definition
• Without privilege to do so…
• Knowingly…
• Discharge a firarm at or into an occupied structure that is a permanent or temporary habitation of any individual OR
• Discharge a firearm at, in, or into a school safety zone OR
• Discharge a firearm within 1000 feet of any school building or of the boundries of any school premises, with the intent to…
o Cause physical harm to another who is in the school, in the school building, or at a function or activity associated with the school OR
o Cause panic or fear of physical harm to another who is in the school, in the school building, or at a function or activity associated with the school OR
o Cause the evacuation of the school, the school building, or a function or activity associated with the school
(F-2) |
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Term
| Possessing Criminal Tools |
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Definition
• Possess or have under the person’s control…
• Any substance, device, instrument, or article…
• With purpose to use it criminally
(M-1 to F-5) |
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Term
| Hidden Compartments in Vehicles |
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Definition
• Division B
o Design, build, construct, or fabricate a vehicle with a hidden compartment OR
o Modify or alter any portion of a vehicle in order to create or add a hidden compartment…
o With the intent to facilitate the unlawful concealment or transportation of a controlled substance OR
• Division C
o Knowingly…
o Operate, possess, or use a vehicle with a hidden compartment…
o With knowledge that the hidden compartment is used or intended to be used to facilitate the unlawful concealment or transportation of a controlled substance
• Division D
o Having been convicted of or plead guilty to…
o A violation of agg trafficking in drugs under ORC that is a felony of the first or second degree…
o Operate, possess, or use a vehicle with a hidden compartment |
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