Definitions for weapons and drug offenses

Whenever used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: "Air gun" means any instrument, by whatever name known, that is designed to expel a pellet or BB shot by action of compressed air or gas, or by the action of a spring or elastic, but does not include a firearm. "Controlled substance" has the same meaning as defined in section 329-1 of the Hawaiʻi Revised Statutes. "Distribution" means the selling, transferring, prescribing, giving, or delivering to another, or the leaving, bartering, or exchanging with another, or the offering or agreeing to do the same. "Replica gun" means any toy or other object, except an air gun or actual firearm, that: 1. Bears a resemblance to an actual firearm and that a reasonable person would have difficulty visually distinguishing from a pistol, revolver, shotgun, sawed-off shotgun, rifle, machine gun, assault weapon, starter pistol, inoperative firearm, or other firearm; and 2. Lacks any feature or aspect that would allow a reasonable person to readily distinguish it by sight from an actual firearm. ( Ord. No. 5549 , § 2, 2023)