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From http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2007/052007/05222007/286107
18.2-279 deals with discharging a firearm in a building. It does not define firearm.
18.2-433.1 defines a firearm as "any weapon that will or is designed to or may readily be converted to expel single or multiple projectiles by the action of an explosion of a combustible material; or the frame or receiver of any such weapon". A taser does not fall withing this definition.
Why the discharging a firearms charge?
From http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2007/052007/05222007/286107
TASER TROUBLE JOLTS BOUNCER
Bouncer charged after he reports assault
Date published: 5/22/2007
BY KEITH EPPS
A bouncer who said he was assaulted by a Marine he'd kicked out of a Fredericksburg club earlier was charged himself with illegally using a Taser, police said.
City police spokeswoman Natatia Bledsoe said an officer on patrol in Central Park about 1:50 a.m. Saturday saw two men causing a disturbance after being kicked out of Buffalo Wild Wings by a bouncer.
The officer intervened and assisted the two men in calling a cab. No charges were filed then.
A short time later, Bledsoe said, the bouncer ran into the two men he'd booted from the club at a nearby Wawa. This time, the bouncer was assaulted, police said.
The two suspects had left before police arrived, but they were later contacted at the Quantico Marine Corps base.
On Sunday, they were interviewed by police and Justin Carl, 21, was charged with assault and battery.
Bledsoe said it was learned that a Taser was used on one of the Marines at the club. Carl was not the one the Taser was used on, Bledsoe said.
The bouncer, 24-year-old Richard Sullivan of Stafford, was charged with carrying a concealed weapon and discharging a firearm within a building.
Keith Epps: 540/374-5404
Email: kepps@freelancestar.com
18.2-279 deals with discharging a firearm in a building. It does not define firearm.
18.2-433.1 defines a firearm as "any weapon that will or is designed to or may readily be converted to expel single or multiple projectiles by the action of an explosion of a combustible material; or the frame or receiver of any such weapon". A taser does not fall withing this definition.
Why the discharging a firearms charge?