[ Search ] [ Legislation ]
[ Home ] [ Back ] [ Bottom ]
91_SB0173
LRB9100345RCksA
1 AN ACT to amend the Firearm Owners Identification Card
2 Act by changing Section 1.1.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Firearm Owners Identification Card Act is
6 amended by changing Section 1.1 as follows:
7 (430 ILCS 65/1.1) (from Ch. 38, par. 83-1.1)
8 Sec. 1.1. For purposes of this Act:
9 "Firearm" means any device, by whatever name known, which
10 is designed to expel a projectile or projectiles by the
11 action of an explosion, expansion of gas or escape of gas;
12 excluding, however:
13 (1) any airgun (including but not limited to a
14 pneumatic gun, compressed gas gun, spring gun, paint ball
15 gun, or B-B gun); which either expels a single globular
16 projectile not exceeding .18 inch in diameter and which
17 has a maximum muzzle velocity of less than 700 feet per
18 second or breakable paint balls containing washable
19 marking colors;
20 (2) any device used exclusively for signalling or
21 safety and required or recommended by the United States
22 Coast Guard or the Interstate Commerce Commission; or
23 (3) any device used exclusively for the firing of
24 stud cartridges, explosive rivets or similar industrial
25 ammunition; and
26 (4) an antique firearm (other than a machine-gun)
27 which, although designed as a weapon, the Department of
28 State Police finds by reason of the date of its
29 manufacture, value, design, and other characteristics is
30 primarily a collector's item and is not likely to be used
31 as a weapon.
-2- LRB9100345RCksA
1 "Firearm ammunition" means any self-contained cartridge
2 or shotgun shell, by whatever name known, which is designed
3 to be used or adaptable to use in a firearm; excluding,
4 however:
5 (1) any ammunition exclusively designed for use
6 with a device used exclusively for signalling or safety
7 and required or recommended by the United States Coast
8 Guard or the Interstate Commerce Commission; or
9 (2) any ammunition designed exclusively for use
10 with a stud or rivet driver or other similar industrial
11 ammunition; and .
12 (3) any ammunition used in an airgun.
13 (Source: P.A. 86-349; 86-1265; revised 10-31-98.)