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93.04 - Other arms (for example, spring, air or gas guns and pistols, truncheons), excluding those of heading 93.07. The headin covers arms other than f i r e m s of headings 93.01 to 93.03 and arms of heading 93. 7. % It includes the following : (1) Truncheons, life-preservers, weighted canes and the like for police, etc., and loaded walking-sticks. (2) Knuckledusters, i.e., pieces of metal shaped to fit a clenched fist and with which blows are delivered. (3) Catapults designed for shooting at birds or pests. They may be in the form of a wallung-stick. Toy catapults are excluded (heading 95.03). (4) Air guns, rifles and pistols. These resernbIe normal rifles, pistols, etc., but they have provision for compressing a column of air which is released into the barrel of the weapon when the trigger is pulled, thus ejecting the ammunition. Guns, rifles and pistols operating on the same principle, but with gases other than air, are also included. (5) Similar weapons operated by the release of a heavy spring mechanism. (6) Guns and pistols, operated by compressed carbon dioxide gas, for,remote projection of an automatic syringe, containing an anaesthetic or a medicament (antiserum, vaccine, etc.) at fiee-roaming animals. (7) Aerosol spray cans containing tear gas.
1.- This Chapter does not cover : (a) Goods of Chapter 36 (for example, percussion caps, detonators, signalling flares); (b) Parts of general use, as defined in Note 2 to Section XV, of base metal (Section XV), or similar goods of plastics (Chapter 39); (c) Armoured fighting vehicles (heading 87.10); (d) Telescopic sights or other optical devices suitable for use with arms, unless mounted on a firearm or presented with the firearm on which they are designed to be mounted (Chapter 90); (e) Bows, arrows, fencing foils or toys (Chapter 95); or (f) Collectors' pieces or antiques (heading 97.05 or 97.06). 2.- In heading 93.06, the reference to “parts thereof” does not include radio or radar apparatus of heading 85.26.