As provided in this article, Section 25400 does not apply to, or affect, any of the following:
- (a) Any peace officer, listed in Section 830.1 or 830.2, or subdivision (a) of Section 830.33, whether active or honorably retired.
- (b) Any other duly appointed peace officer.
- (c) Any honorably retired peace officer listed in subdivision (c) of Section 830.5.
- (d) Any other honorably retired peace officer who during the course and scope of his or her appointment as a peace officer was authorized to, and did, carry a firearm.
- (e) Any full-time paid peace officer of another state or the federal government who is carrying out official duties while in California.
- (f) Any person summoned by any of these officers to assist in making arrests or preserving the peace while the person is actually engaged in assisting that officer.