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5 <br /> Orange County Board of Commissioners <br /> Page 4 <br /> November 11, 1993 <br /> State Laws . The March 1990 Karpinos memorandum contains a <br /> digest of state laws regulating the sale, use, possession, <br /> manufacture and other transfer of firearms . I found it to be <br /> comprehensive. Below is a list of statutes not included in that <br /> memorandum either because they were enacted subsequent to it or, <br /> I presume, because Mr. Karpinos concluded they had no or limited <br /> application to the Town of Chapel Hill. <br /> 1. N.C. Gen. Stat. S 14-34.2 makes an assault with a <br /> firearm or any other deadly weapon upon an officer or employee of <br /> the state or any political subdivision of the state in the <br /> performance of his duties a Class I felony. <br /> 2 . N.C. Gen. Stat. S 14-269. 1 provides for the <br /> confiscation and disposition of a deadly weapon, including a gun, <br /> when the deadly weapon was the one possessed by a person <br /> convicted of violating N.C. Gen. Stat. S 14-269 which prohibits <br /> the carrying of concealed weapons. <br /> 3 . N.C. Gen. Stat. S 14-269.4 prohibits any person from <br /> possessing or carrying, openly or concealed, any deadly weapon, <br /> except those used solely for instructional or officially <br /> sanctioned ceremonial purposes, in any building housing any court <br /> of the General Court of Justice. <br /> 4. N.C. Gen. Stat. S 14-269 . 7 makes a minor who possesses <br /> or carries a handgun, with certain exceptions, guilty of a <br /> misdemeanor. <br /> 5. The 1993 General Assembly adopted additional state laws <br /> regulating firearms and certain conduct associated with firearms . <br /> Chapter 259 of the 1993 Session Laws makes it a misdemeanor for <br /> minors, with certain exceptions, to possess handguns, and makes <br /> it a crime for someone to sell or give weapons to minors. <br /> Chapter 558 of the 1993 Session Laws prohibits the possession, <br /> whether openly or concealed, of any firearm and other listed <br /> incendiary devices on "educational property. " Educational <br /> property is defined to include public and private schools, <br /> busses, campuses, grounds, recreational areas, athletic fields or <br /> other property owned, used or operated by the educational <br /> institution. Chapter 558 also makes criminal storing or leaving <br /> a firearm in a "condition that the firearm can be discharged" or <br /> be accessed by an unsupervised minor. Copies of Chapter 259 and <br /> Chapter 558 of the 1993 Session Laws are attached to this letter <br /> for your further information. <br /> Orange County derives its authority to regulate firearms <br /> solely from the North Carolina General Assembly. It is not a <br /> municipal corporation as are the towns in this state and has no <br /> "Charter. " In addition to its zoning power, which authorizes it <br /> to regulate the use of buildings, structures and land for trade, <br /> industry, residence, or other purposes (N.C. Gen. Stat. S 153A- <br />