The heading covers arms other than firearms of headings 93.01 to 93.03 and arms of heading 93.07. 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 walking-stick. Toy catapults are excluded (heading 95.03). (4) Air guns, rifles and pistols. These resemble 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 free-roaming animals. (7) Aerosol spray cans containing tear gas.
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