Well folks, our elected overlords are at it again seeking to redefine the term firearm under Section 222 of Title 11 of the code and also seeking to add a new class of deadly weapon called "projectile weapons". This is NOT going to be good for anyone, despite the propaganda pitch that it will assist prior convicted felons in securing job opportunities when released back into the community following release from incarceration. If that were in fact the only reason this was being advanced, then that's all fine and well, but by creating a new class of deadly weapons with the "projectile weapons" category, it really betrays the true intent. The true intent seems to be to be to create a whole new class of items for which the State can felonize you for owning. The present definition under 11 Del.C. Sec. 222(13) states ""Firearm" includes any weapon from which a shot, projectile, or other object maybe discharged by force of combustion, explosive, gas, and/or mechanical means, whether operable or inoperable, loaded or unloaded. It does not include a BB gun". Effectively what the new proposed definition does is remove the language after the word "explosive" and then the excised language gets applied to the new classification of "projectile weapon". For purposes of persecution under Title 11, a person can be charged with carrying a concealed deadly weapon under 11 Del. C. Sec. 1442 and if said weapon is a "firearm" or "projectile weapon" they face 0 to eight years in prison.
