102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB3298

 

Introduced 2/19/2021, by Rep. Lance Yednock

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
720 ILCS 5/24-1  from Ch. 38, par. 24-1
720 ILCS 5/24-1.6
720 ILCS 5/24-2

    Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a person who has been issued a currently valid Firearm Owner's Identification Card may transport in a vehicle an accessible rifle, shotgun, or other long gun without the weapon being broken down in a non-functioning state or without the weapon being enclosed in a case, firearm carrying box, shipping box, or other container if the firearm is unloaded.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning criminal law.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by
5changing Sections 24-1, 24-1.6, and 24-2 as follows:
 
6    (720 ILCS 5/24-1)  (from Ch. 38, par. 24-1)
7    Sec. 24-1. Unlawful use of weapons.
8    (a) A person commits the offense of unlawful use of
9weapons when he knowingly:
10        (1) Sells, manufactures, purchases, possesses or
11    carries any bludgeon, black-jack, slung-shot, sand-club,
12    sand-bag, metal knuckles or other knuckle weapon
13    regardless of its composition, throwing star, or any
14    knife, commonly referred to as a switchblade knife, which
15    has a blade that opens automatically by hand pressure
16    applied to a button, spring or other device in the handle
17    of the knife, or a ballistic knife, which is a device that
18    propels a knifelike blade as a projectile by means of a
19    coil spring, elastic material or compressed gas; or
20        (2) Carries or possesses with intent to use the same
21    unlawfully against another, a dagger, dirk, billy,
22    dangerous knife, razor, stiletto, broken bottle or other
23    piece of glass, stun gun or taser or any other dangerous or

 

 

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1    deadly weapon or instrument of like character; or
2        (2.5) Carries or possesses with intent to use the same
3    unlawfully against another, any firearm in a church,
4    synagogue, mosque, or other building, structure, or place
5    used for religious worship; or
6        (3) Carries on or about his person or in any vehicle, a
7    tear gas gun projector or bomb or any object containing
8    noxious liquid gas or substance, other than an object
9    containing a non-lethal noxious liquid gas or substance
10    designed solely for personal defense carried by a person
11    18 years of age or older; or
12        (4) Carries or possesses in any vehicle or concealed
13    on or about his person except when on his land or in his
14    own abode, legal dwelling, or fixed place of business, or
15    on the land or in the legal dwelling of another person as
16    an invitee with that person's permission, any pistol,
17    revolver, stun gun or taser or other firearm, except that
18    this subsection (a) (4) does not apply to or affect
19    transportation of:
20            (A) weapons, other than rifles, shotguns, or other
21        long guns that are transported in a vehicle, that meet
22        one of the following conditions:
23                (i) are broken down in a non-functioning
24            state; or
25                (ii) are not immediately accessible; or
26                (iii) are unloaded and enclosed in a case,

 

 

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1            firearm carrying box, shipping box, or other
2            container by a person who has been issued a
3            currently valid Firearm Owner's Identification
4            Card; or
5                (iv) are carried or possessed in accordance
6            with the Firearm Concealed Carry Act by a person
7            who has been issued a currently valid license
8            under the Firearm Concealed Carry Act; or
9            (B) rifles, shotguns, or other long guns in a
10        vehicle by a person who has been issued a currently
11        valid Firearm Owner's Identification Card if the
12        firearms are unloaded; or
13        (5) Sets a spring gun; or
14        (6) Possesses any device or attachment of any kind
15    designed, used or intended for use in silencing the report
16    of any firearm; or
17        (7) Sells, manufactures, purchases, possesses or
18    carries:
19            (i) a machine gun, which shall be defined for the
20        purposes of this subsection as any weapon, which
21        shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily
22        restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot
23        without manually reloading by a single function of the
24        trigger, including the frame or receiver of any such
25        weapon, or sells, manufactures, purchases, possesses,
26        or carries any combination of parts designed or

 

 

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1        intended for use in converting any weapon into a
2        machine gun, or any combination or parts from which a
3        machine gun can be assembled if such parts are in the
4        possession or under the control of a person;
5            (ii) any rifle having one or more barrels less
6        than 16 inches in length or a shotgun having one or
7        more barrels less than 18 inches in length or any
8        weapon made from a rifle or shotgun, whether by
9        alteration, modification, or otherwise, if such a
10        weapon as modified has an overall length of less than
11        26 inches; or
12            (iii) any bomb, bomb-shell, grenade, bottle or
13        other container containing an explosive substance of
14        over one-quarter ounce for like purposes, such as, but
15        not limited to, black powder bombs and Molotov
16        cocktails or artillery projectiles; or
17        (8) Carries or possesses any firearm, stun gun or
18    taser or other deadly weapon in any place which is
19    licensed to sell intoxicating beverages, or at any public
20    gathering held pursuant to a license issued by any
21    governmental body or any public gathering at which an
22    admission is charged, excluding a place where a showing,
23    demonstration or lecture involving the exhibition of
24    unloaded firearms is conducted.
25        This subsection (a)(8) does not apply to any auction
26    or raffle of a firearm held pursuant to a license or permit

 

 

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1    issued by a governmental body, nor does it apply to
2    persons engaged in firearm safety training courses; or
3        (9) Carries or possesses in a vehicle or on or about
4    his or her person any pistol, revolver, stun gun or taser
5    or firearm or ballistic knife, when he or she is hooded,
6    robed or masked in such manner as to conceal his or her
7    identity; or
8        (10) Carries or possesses on or about his or her
9    person, upon any public street, alley, or other public
10    lands within the corporate limits of a city, village, or
11    incorporated town, except when an invitee thereon or
12    therein, for the purpose of the display of such weapon or
13    the lawful commerce in weapons, or except when on his land
14    or in his or her own abode, legal dwelling, or fixed place
15    of business, or on the land or in the legal dwelling of
16    another person as an invitee with that person's
17    permission, any pistol, revolver, stun gun, or taser or
18    other firearm, except that this subsection (a) (10) does
19    not apply to or affect transportation of weapons as
20    provided in subsection 24-1(a)(4)(B) or that meet one of
21    the following conditions:
22            (i) are broken down in a non-functioning state; or
23            (ii) are not immediately accessible; or
24            (iii) are unloaded and enclosed in a case, firearm
25        carrying box, shipping box, or other container by a
26        person who has been issued a currently valid Firearm

 

 

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1        Owner's Identification Card; or
2            (iv) are carried or possessed in accordance with
3        the Firearm Concealed Carry Act by a person who has
4        been issued a currently valid license under the
5        Firearm Concealed Carry Act.
6        A "stun gun or taser", as used in this paragraph (a)
7    means (i) any device which is powered by electrical
8    charging units, such as, batteries, and which fires one or
9    several barbs attached to a length of wire and which, upon
10    hitting a human, can send out a current capable of
11    disrupting the person's nervous system in such a manner as
12    to render him incapable of normal functioning or (ii) any
13    device which is powered by electrical charging units, such
14    as batteries, and which, upon contact with a human or
15    clothing worn by a human, can send out current capable of
16    disrupting the person's nervous system in such a manner as
17    to render him incapable of normal functioning; or
18        (11) Sells, manufactures, or purchases any explosive
19    bullet. For purposes of this paragraph (a) "explosive
20    bullet" means the projectile portion of an ammunition
21    cartridge which contains or carries an explosive charge
22    which will explode upon contact with the flesh of a human
23    or an animal. "Cartridge" means a tubular metal case
24    having a projectile affixed at the front thereof and a cap
25    or primer at the rear end thereof, with the propellant
26    contained in such tube between the projectile and the cap;

 

 

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1    or
2        (12) (Blank); or
3        (13) Carries or possesses on or about his or her
4    person while in a building occupied by a unit of
5    government, a billy club, other weapon of like character,
6    or other instrument of like character intended for use as
7    a weapon. For the purposes of this Section, "billy club"
8    means a short stick or club commonly carried by police
9    officers which is either telescopic or constructed of a
10    solid piece of wood or other man-made material.
11    (b) Sentence. A person convicted of a violation of
12subsection 24-1(a)(1) through (5), subsection 24-1(a)(10),
13subsection 24-1(a)(11), or subsection 24-1(a)(13) commits a
14Class A misdemeanor. A person convicted of a violation of
15subsection 24-1(a)(8) or 24-1(a)(9) commits a Class 4 felony;
16a person convicted of a violation of subsection 24-1(a)(6) or
1724-1(a)(7)(ii) or (iii) commits a Class 3 felony. A person
18convicted of a violation of subsection 24-1(a)(7)(i) commits a
19Class 2 felony and shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment
20of not less than 3 years and not more than 7 years, unless the
21weapon is possessed in the passenger compartment of a motor
22vehicle as defined in Section 1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle
23Code, or on the person, while the weapon is loaded, in which
24case it shall be a Class X felony. A person convicted of a
25second or subsequent violation of subsection 24-1(a)(4),
2624-1(a)(8), 24-1(a)(9), or 24-1(a)(10) commits a Class 3

 

 

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1felony. A person convicted of a violation of subsection
224-1(a)(2.5) commits a Class 2 felony. The possession of each
3weapon in violation of this Section constitutes a single and
4separate violation.
5    (c) Violations in specific places.
6        (1) A person who violates subsection 24-1(a)(6) or
7    24-1(a)(7) in any school, regardless of the time of day or
8    the time of year, in residential property owned, operated
9    or managed by a public housing agency or leased by a public
10    housing agency as part of a scattered site or mixed-income
11    development, in a public park, in a courthouse, on the
12    real property comprising any school, regardless of the
13    time of day or the time of year, on residential property
14    owned, operated or managed by a public housing agency or
15    leased by a public housing agency as part of a scattered
16    site or mixed-income development, on the real property
17    comprising any public park, on the real property
18    comprising any courthouse, in any conveyance owned, leased
19    or contracted by a school to transport students to or from
20    school or a school related activity, in any conveyance
21    owned, leased, or contracted by a public transportation
22    agency, or on any public way within 1,000 feet of the real
23    property comprising any school, public park, courthouse,
24    public transportation facility, or residential property
25    owned, operated, or managed by a public housing agency or
26    leased by a public housing agency as part of a scattered

 

 

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1    site or mixed-income development commits a Class 2 felony
2    and shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not
3    less than 3 years and not more than 7 years.
4        (1.5) A person who violates subsection 24-1(a)(4),
5    24-1(a)(9), or 24-1(a)(10) in any school, regardless of
6    the time of day or the time of year, in residential
7    property owned, operated, or managed by a public housing
8    agency or leased by a public housing agency as part of a
9    scattered site or mixed-income development, in a public
10    park, in a courthouse, on the real property comprising any
11    school, regardless of the time of day or the time of year,
12    on residential property owned, operated, or managed by a
13    public housing agency or leased by a public housing agency
14    as part of a scattered site or mixed-income development,
15    on the real property comprising any public park, on the
16    real property comprising any courthouse, in any conveyance
17    owned, leased, or contracted by a school to transport
18    students to or from school or a school related activity,
19    in any conveyance owned, leased, or contracted by a public
20    transportation agency, or on any public way within 1,000
21    feet of the real property comprising any school, public
22    park, courthouse, public transportation facility, or
23    residential property owned, operated, or managed by a
24    public housing agency or leased by a public housing agency
25    as part of a scattered site or mixed-income development
26    commits a Class 3 felony.

 

 

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1        (2) A person who violates subsection 24-1(a)(1),
2    24-1(a)(2), or 24-1(a)(3) in any school, regardless of the
3    time of day or the time of year, in residential property
4    owned, operated or managed by a public housing agency or
5    leased by a public housing agency as part of a scattered
6    site or mixed-income development, in a public park, in a
7    courthouse, on the real property comprising any school,
8    regardless of the time of day or the time of year, on
9    residential property owned, operated or managed by a
10    public housing agency or leased by a public housing agency
11    as part of a scattered site or mixed-income development,
12    on the real property comprising any public park, on the
13    real property comprising any courthouse, in any conveyance
14    owned, leased or contracted by a school to transport
15    students to or from school or a school related activity,
16    in any conveyance owned, leased, or contracted by a public
17    transportation agency, or on any public way within 1,000
18    feet of the real property comprising any school, public
19    park, courthouse, public transportation facility, or
20    residential property owned, operated, or managed by a
21    public housing agency or leased by a public housing agency
22    as part of a scattered site or mixed-income development
23    commits a Class 4 felony. "Courthouse" means any building
24    that is used by the Circuit, Appellate, or Supreme Court
25    of this State for the conduct of official business.
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1    (c) shall not apply to law enforcement officers or
2    security officers of such school, college, or university
3    or to students carrying or possessing firearms for use in
4    training courses, parades, hunting, target shooting on
5    school ranges, or otherwise with the consent of school
6    authorities and which firearms are transported unloaded
7    enclosed in a suitable case, box, or transportation
8    package.
9        (4) For the purposes of this subsection (c), "school"
10    means any public or private elementary or secondary
11    school, community college, college, or university.
12        (5) For the purposes of this subsection (c), "public
13    transportation agency" means a public or private agency
14    that provides for the transportation or conveyance of
15    persons by means available to the general public, except
16    for transportation by automobiles not used for conveyance
17    of the general public as passengers; and "public
18    transportation facility" means a terminal or other place
19    where one may obtain public transportation.
20    (d) The presence in an automobile other than a public
21omnibus of any weapon, instrument or substance referred to in
22subsection (a)(7) is prima facie evidence that it is in the
23possession of, and is being carried by, all persons occupying
24such automobile at the time such weapon, instrument or
25substance is found, except under the following circumstances:
26(i) if such weapon, instrument or instrumentality is found

 

 

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1upon the person of one of the occupants therein; or (ii) if
2such weapon, instrument or substance is found in an automobile
3operated for hire by a duly licensed driver in the due, lawful
4and proper pursuit of his or her trade, then such presumption
5shall not apply to the driver.
6    (e) Exemptions.
7        (1) Crossbows, Common or Compound bows and Underwater
8    Spearguns are exempted from the definition of ballistic
9    knife as defined in paragraph (1) of subsection (a) of
10    this Section.
11        (2) The provision of paragraph (1) of subsection (a)
12    of this Section prohibiting the sale, manufacture,
13    purchase, possession, or carrying of any knife, commonly
14    referred to as a switchblade knife, which has a blade that
15    opens automatically by hand pressure applied to a button,
16    spring or other device in the handle of the knife, does not
17    apply to a person who possesses a currently valid Firearm
18    Owner's Identification Card previously issued in his or
19    her name by the Department of State Police or to a person
20    or an entity engaged in the business of selling or
21    manufacturing switchblade knives.
22(Source: P.A. 100-82, eff. 8-11-17; 101-223, eff. 1-1-20.)
 
23    (720 ILCS 5/24-1.6)
24    Sec. 24-1.6. Aggravated unlawful use of a weapon.
25    (a) A person commits the offense of aggravated unlawful

 

 

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1use of a weapon when he or she knowingly:
2        (1) Carries on or about his or her person or in any
3    vehicle or concealed on or about his or her person except
4    when on his or her land or in his or her abode, legal
5    dwelling, or fixed place of business, or on the land or in
6    the legal dwelling of another person as an invitee with
7    that person's permission, any pistol, revolver, stun gun
8    or taser or other firearm; or
9        (2) Carries or possesses on or about his or her
10    person, upon any public street, alley, or other public
11    lands within the corporate limits of a city, village or
12    incorporated town, except when an invitee thereon or
13    therein, for the purpose of the display of such weapon or
14    the lawful commerce in weapons, or except when on his or
15    her own land or in his or her own abode, legal dwelling, or
16    fixed place of business, or on the land or in the legal
17    dwelling of another person as an invitee with that
18    person's permission, any pistol, revolver, stun gun or
19    taser or other firearm; and
20        (3) One of the following factors is present:
21            (A) the firearm, other than a pistol, revolver, or
22        handgun, possessed was uncased, loaded, and
23        immediately accessible at the time of the offense; or
24            (A-5) the pistol, revolver, or handgun possessed
25        was uncased, loaded, and immediately accessible at the
26        time of the offense and the person possessing the

 

 

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1        pistol, revolver, or handgun has not been issued a
2        currently valid license under the Firearm Concealed
3        Carry Act; or
4            (B) the firearm, other than a pistol, revolver, or
5        handgun, possessed was uncased, unloaded, and the
6        ammunition for the weapon was immediately accessible
7        at the time of the offense; or
8            (B-5) the pistol, revolver, or handgun possessed
9        was uncased, unloaded, and the ammunition for the
10        weapon was immediately accessible at the time of the
11        offense and the person possessing the pistol,
12        revolver, or handgun has not been issued a currently
13        valid license under the Firearm Concealed Carry Act;
14        or
15            (C) the person possessing the firearm has not been
16        issued a currently valid Firearm Owner's
17        Identification Card; or
18            (D) the person possessing the weapon was
19        previously adjudicated a delinquent minor under the
20        Juvenile Court Act of 1987 for an act that if committed
21        by an adult would be a felony; or
22            (E) the person possessing the weapon was engaged
23        in a misdemeanor violation of the Cannabis Control
24        Act, in a misdemeanor violation of the Illinois
25        Controlled Substances Act, or in a misdemeanor
26        violation of the Methamphetamine Control and Community

 

 

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1        Protection Act; or
2            (F) (blank); or
3            (G) the person possessing the weapon had an order
4        of protection issued against him or her within the
5        previous 2 years; or
6            (H) the person possessing the weapon was engaged
7        in the commission or attempted commission of a
8        misdemeanor involving the use or threat of violence
9        against the person or property of another; or
10            (I) the person possessing the weapon was under 21
11        years of age and in possession of a handgun, unless the
12        person under 21 is engaged in lawful activities under
13        the Wildlife Code or described in subsection
14        24-2(b)(1), (b)(3), or 24-2(f).
15    (a-5) "Handgun" as used in this Section has the meaning
16given to it in Section 5 of the Firearm Concealed Carry Act.
17    (b) "Stun gun or taser" as used in this Section has the
18same definition given to it in Section 24-1 of this Code.
19    (c) This Section does not apply to or affect the
20transportation or possession of weapons as provided in
21subsection 24-1(a)(4)(B) or that:
22        (i) are broken down in a non-functioning state; or
23        (ii) are not immediately accessible; or
24        (iii) are unloaded and enclosed in a case, firearm
25    carrying box, shipping box, or other container by a person
26    who has been issued a currently valid Firearm Owner's

 

 

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1    Identification Card.
2    (d) Sentence.
3        (1) Aggravated unlawful use of a weapon is a Class 4
4    felony; a second or subsequent offense is a Class 2 felony
5    for which the person shall be sentenced to a term of
6    imprisonment of not less than 3 years and not more than 7
7    years, except as provided for in Section 5-4.5-110 of the
8    Unified Code of Corrections.
9        (2) Except as otherwise provided in paragraphs (3) and
10    (4) of this subsection (d), a first offense of aggravated
11    unlawful use of a weapon committed with a firearm by a
12    person 18 years of age or older where the factors listed in
13    both items (A) and (C) or both items (A-5) and (C) of
14    paragraph (3) of subsection (a) are present is a Class 4
15    felony, for which the person shall be sentenced to a term
16    of imprisonment of not less than one year and not more than
17    3 years.
18        (3) Aggravated unlawful use of a weapon by a person
19    who has been previously convicted of a felony in this
20    State or another jurisdiction is a Class 2 felony for
21    which the person shall be sentenced to a term of
22    imprisonment of not less than 3 years and not more than 7
23    years, except as provided for in Section 5-4.5-110 of the
24    Unified Code of Corrections.
25        (4) Aggravated unlawful use of a weapon while wearing
26    or in possession of body armor as defined in Section 33F-1

 

 

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1    by a person who has not been issued a valid Firearms
2    Owner's Identification Card in accordance with Section 5
3    of the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act is a Class X
4    felony.
5    (e) The possession of each firearm in violation of this
6Section constitutes a single and separate violation.
7(Source: P.A. 100-3, eff. 1-1-18; 100-201, eff. 8-18-17.)
 
8    (720 ILCS 5/24-2)
9    Sec. 24-2. Exemptions.
10    (a) Subsections 24-1(a)(3), 24-1(a)(4), 24-1(a)(10), and
1124-1(a)(13) and Section 24-1.6 do not apply to or affect any of
12the following:
13        (1) Peace officers, and any person summoned by a peace
14    officer to assist in making arrests or preserving the
15    peace, while actually engaged in assisting such officer.
16        (2) Wardens, superintendents and keepers of prisons,
17    penitentiaries, jails and other institutions for the
18    detention of persons accused or convicted of an offense,
19    while in the performance of their official duty, or while
20    commuting between their homes and places of employment.
21        (3) Members of the Armed Services or Reserve Forces of
22    the United States or the Illinois National Guard or the
23    Reserve Officers Training Corps, while in the performance
24    of their official duty.
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1    utility to perform police functions, and guards of armored
2    car companies, while actually engaged in the performance
3    of the duties of their employment or commuting between
4    their homes and places of employment; and watchmen while
5    actually engaged in the performance of the duties of their
6    employment.
7        (5) Persons licensed as private security contractors,
8    private detectives, or private alarm contractors, or
9    employed by a private security contractor, private
10    detective, or private alarm contractor agency licensed by
11    the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation,
12    if their duties include the carrying of a weapon under the
13    provisions of the Private Detective, Private Alarm,
14    Private Security, Fingerprint Vendor, and Locksmith Act of
15    2004, while actually engaged in the performance of the
16    duties of their employment or commuting between their
17    homes and places of employment. A person shall be
18    considered eligible for this exemption if he or she has
19    completed the required 20 hours of training for a private
20    security contractor, private detective, or private alarm
21    contractor, or employee of a licensed private security
22    contractor, private detective, or private alarm contractor
23    agency and 20 hours of required firearm training, and has
24    been issued a firearm control card by the Department of
25    Financial and Professional Regulation. Conditions for the
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1    provisions of this Section shall be the same as for those
2    cards issued under the provisions of the Private
3    Detective, Private Alarm, Private Security, Fingerprint
4    Vendor, and Locksmith Act of 2004. The firearm control
5    card shall be carried by the private security contractor,
6    private detective, or private alarm contractor, or
7    employee of the licensed private security contractor,
8    private detective, or private alarm contractor agency at
9    all times when he or she is in possession of a concealable
10    weapon permitted by his or her firearm control card.
11        (6) Any person regularly employed in a commercial or
12    industrial operation as a security guard for the
13    protection of persons employed and private property
14    related to such commercial or industrial operation, while
15    actually engaged in the performance of his or her duty or
16    traveling between sites or properties belonging to the
17    employer, and who, as a security guard, is a member of a
18    security force registered with the Department of Financial
19    and Professional Regulation; provided that such security
20    guard has successfully completed a course of study,
21    approved by and supervised by the Department of Financial
22    and Professional Regulation, consisting of not less than
23    40 hours of training that includes the theory of law
24    enforcement, liability for acts, and the handling of
25    weapons. A person shall be considered eligible for this
26    exemption if he or she has completed the required 20 hours

 

 

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1    of training for a security officer and 20 hours of
2    required firearm training, and has been issued a firearm
3    control card by the Department of Financial and
4    Professional Regulation. Conditions for the renewal of
5    firearm control cards issued under the provisions of this
6    Section shall be the same as for those cards issued under
7    the provisions of the Private Detective, Private Alarm,
8    Private Security, Fingerprint Vendor, and Locksmith Act of
9    2004. The firearm control card shall be carried by the
10    security guard at all times when he or she is in possession
11    of a concealable weapon permitted by his or her firearm
12    control card.
13        (7) Agents and investigators of the Illinois
14    Legislative Investigating Commission authorized by the
15    Commission to carry the weapons specified in subsections
16    24-1(a)(3) and 24-1(a)(4), while on duty in the course of
17    any investigation for the Commission.
18        (8) Persons employed by a financial institution as a
19    security guard for the protection of other employees and
20    property related to such financial institution, while
21    actually engaged in the performance of their duties,
22    commuting between their homes and places of employment, or
23    traveling between sites or properties owned or operated by
24    such financial institution, and who, as a security guard,
25    is a member of a security force registered with the
26    Department; provided that any person so employed has

 

 

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1    successfully completed a course of study, approved by and
2    supervised by the Department of Financial and Professional
3    Regulation, consisting of not less than 40 hours of
4    training which includes theory of law enforcement,
5    liability for acts, and the handling of weapons. A person
6    shall be considered to be eligible for this exemption if
7    he or she has completed the required 20 hours of training
8    for a security officer and 20 hours of required firearm
9    training, and has been issued a firearm control card by
10    the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation.
11    Conditions for renewal of firearm control cards issued
12    under the provisions of this Section shall be the same as
13    for those issued under the provisions of the Private
14    Detective, Private Alarm, Private Security, Fingerprint
15    Vendor, and Locksmith Act of 2004. The firearm control
16    card shall be carried by the security guard at all times
17    when he or she is in possession of a concealable weapon
18    permitted by his or her firearm control card. For purposes
19    of this subsection, "financial institution" means a bank,
20    savings and loan association, credit union or company
21    providing armored car services.
22        (9) Any person employed by an armored car company to
23    drive an armored car, while actually engaged in the
24    performance of his duties.
25        (10) Persons who have been classified as peace
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1    Act.
2        (11) Investigators of the Office of the State's
3    Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor authorized by the board of
4    governors of the Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate
5    Prosecutor to carry weapons pursuant to Section 7.06 of
6    the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor's Act.
7        (12) Special investigators appointed by a State's
8    Attorney under Section 3-9005 of the Counties Code.
9        (12.5) Probation officers while in the performance of
10    their duties, or while commuting between their homes,
11    places of employment or specific locations that are part
12    of their assigned duties, with the consent of the chief
13    judge of the circuit for which they are employed, if they
14    have received weapons training according to requirements
15    of the Peace Officer and Probation Officer Firearm
16    Training Act.
17        (13) Court Security Officers while in the performance
18    of their official duties, or while commuting between their
19    homes and places of employment, with the consent of the
20    Sheriff.
21        (13.5) A person employed as an armed security guard at
22    a nuclear energy, storage, weapons or development site or
23    facility regulated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
24    who has completed the background screening and training
25    mandated by the rules and regulations of the Nuclear
26    Regulatory Commission.

 

 

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1        (14) Manufacture, transportation, or sale of weapons
2    to persons authorized under subdivisions (1) through
3    (13.5) of this subsection to possess those weapons.
4    (a-5) Subsections 24-1(a)(4) and 24-1(a)(10) do not apply
5to or affect any person carrying a concealed pistol, revolver,
6or handgun and the person has been issued a currently valid
7license under the Firearm Concealed Carry Act at the time of
8the commission of the offense.
9     (a-6) Subsections 24-1(a)(4) and 24-1(a)(10) do not apply
10to or affect a qualified current or retired law enforcement
11officer qualified under the laws of this State or under the
12federal Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act.
13    (b) Subsections 24-1(a)(4) and 24-1(a)(10) and Section
1424-1.6 do not apply to or affect any of the following:
15        (1) Members of any club or organization organized for
16    the purpose of practicing shooting at targets upon
17    established target ranges, whether public or private, and
18    patrons of such ranges, while such members or patrons are
19    using their firearms on those target ranges.
20        (2) Duly authorized military or civil organizations
21    while parading, with the special permission of the
22    Governor.
23        (3) Hunters, trappers or fishermen with a license or
24    permit while engaged in hunting, trapping or fishing.
25        (4) Transportation of weapons that are broken down in
26    a non-functioning state or are not immediately accessible.

 

 

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1        (5) Carrying or possessing any pistol, revolver, stun
2    gun or taser or other firearm on the land or in the legal
3    dwelling of another person as an invitee with that
4    person's permission.
5    (c) Subsection 24-1(a)(7) does not apply to or affect any
6of the following:
7        (1) Peace officers while in performance of their
8    official duties.
9        (2) Wardens, superintendents and keepers of prisons,
10    penitentiaries, jails and other institutions for the
11    detention of persons accused or convicted of an offense.
12        (3) Members of the Armed Services or Reserve Forces of
13    the United States or the Illinois National Guard, while in
14    the performance of their official duty.
15        (4) Manufacture, transportation, or sale of machine
16    guns to persons authorized under subdivisions (1) through
17    (3) of this subsection to possess machine guns, if the
18    machine guns are broken down in a non-functioning state or
19    are not immediately accessible.
20        (5) Persons licensed under federal law to manufacture
21    any weapon from which 8 or more shots or bullets can be
22    discharged by a single function of the firing device, or
23    ammunition for such weapons, and actually engaged in the
24    business of manufacturing such weapons or ammunition, but
25    only with respect to activities which are within the
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1    transportation, or testing of such weapons or ammunition.
2    This exemption does not authorize the general private
3    possession of any weapon from which 8 or more shots or
4    bullets can be discharged by a single function of the
5    firing device, but only such possession and activities as
6    are within the lawful scope of a licensed manufacturing
7    business described in this paragraph.
8        During transportation, such weapons shall be broken
9    down in a non-functioning state or not immediately
10    accessible.
11        (6) The manufacture, transport, testing, delivery,
12    transfer or sale, and all lawful commercial or
13    experimental activities necessary thereto, of rifles,
14    shotguns, and weapons made from rifles or shotguns, or
15    ammunition for such rifles, shotguns or weapons, where
16    engaged in by a person operating as a contractor or
17    subcontractor pursuant to a contract or subcontract for
18    the development and supply of such rifles, shotguns,
19    weapons or ammunition to the United States government or
20    any branch of the Armed Forces of the United States, when
21    such activities are necessary and incident to fulfilling
22    the terms of such contract.
23        The exemption granted under this subdivision (c)(6)
24    shall also apply to any authorized agent of any such
25    contractor or subcontractor who is operating within the
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1    such weapon, weapons or ammunition are necessary and
2    incident to fulfilling the terms of such contract.
3        (7) A person possessing a rifle with a barrel or
4    barrels less than 16 inches in length if: (A) the person
5    has been issued a Curios and Relics license from the U.S.
6    Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; or
7    (B) the person is an active member of a bona fide,
8    nationally recognized military re-enacting group and the
9    modification is required and necessary to accurately
10    portray the weapon for historical re-enactment purposes;
11    the re-enactor is in possession of a valid and current
12    re-enacting group membership credential; and the overall
13    length of the weapon as modified is not less than 26
14    inches.
15    (d) Subsection 24-1(a)(1) does not apply to the purchase,
16possession or carrying of a black-jack or slung-shot by a
17peace officer.
18    (e) Subsection 24-1(a)(8) does not apply to any owner,
19manager or authorized employee of any place specified in that
20subsection nor to any law enforcement officer.
21    (f) Subsection 24-1(a)(4) and subsection 24-1(a)(10) and
22Section 24-1.6 do not apply to members of any club or
23organization organized for the purpose of practicing shooting
24at targets upon established target ranges, whether public or
25private, while using their firearms on those target ranges.
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1to:
2        (1) Members of the Armed Services or Reserve Forces of
3    the United States or the Illinois National Guard, while in
4    the performance of their official duty.
5        (2) Bonafide collectors of antique or surplus military
6    ordnance.
7        (3) Laboratories having a department of forensic
8    ballistics, or specializing in the development of
9    ammunition or explosive ordnance.
10        (4) Commerce, preparation, assembly or possession of
11    explosive bullets by manufacturers of ammunition licensed
12    by the federal government, in connection with the supply
13    of those organizations and persons exempted by subdivision
14    (g)(1) of this Section, or like organizations and persons
15    outside this State, or the transportation of explosive
16    bullets to any organization or person exempted in this
17    Section by a common carrier or by a vehicle owned or leased
18    by an exempted manufacturer.
19    (g-5) Subsection 24-1(a)(6) does not apply to or affect
20persons licensed under federal law to manufacture any device
21or attachment of any kind designed, used, or intended for use
22in silencing the report of any firearm, firearms, or
23ammunition for those firearms equipped with those devices, and
24actually engaged in the business of manufacturing those
25devices, firearms, or ammunition, but only with respect to
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1such as the manufacture, transportation, or testing of those
2devices, firearms, or ammunition. This exemption does not
3authorize the general private possession of any device or
4attachment of any kind designed, used, or intended for use in
5silencing the report of any firearm, but only such possession
6and activities as are within the lawful scope of a licensed
7manufacturing business described in this subsection (g-5).
8During transportation, these devices shall be detached from
9any weapon or not immediately accessible.
10    (g-6) Subsections 24-1(a)(4) and 24-1(a)(10) and Section
1124-1.6 do not apply to or affect any parole agent or parole
12supervisor who meets the qualifications and conditions
13prescribed in Section 3-14-1.5 of the Unified Code of
14Corrections.
15    (g-7) Subsection 24-1(a)(6) does not apply to a peace
16officer while serving as a member of a tactical response team
17or special operations team. A peace officer may not personally
18own or apply for ownership of a device or attachment of any
19kind designed, used, or intended for use in silencing the
20report of any firearm. These devices shall be owned and
21maintained by lawfully recognized units of government whose
22duties include the investigation of criminal acts.
23    (g-10) Subsections 24-1(a)(4), 24-1(a)(8), and
2424-1(a)(10), and Sections 24-1.6 and 24-3.1 do not apply to an
25athlete's possession, transport on official Olympic and
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1competition firearms sanctioned by the International Olympic
2Committee, the International Paralympic Committee, the
3International Shooting Sport Federation, or USA Shooting in
4connection with such athlete's training for and participation
5in shooting competitions at the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic
6Games and sanctioned test events leading up to the 2016
7Olympic and Paralympic Games.
8    (h) An information or indictment based upon a violation of
9any subsection of this Article need not negative any
10exemptions contained in this Article. The defendant shall have
11the burden of proving such an exemption.
12    (i) Nothing in this Article shall prohibit, apply to, or
13affect the transportation, carrying, or possession, of any
14pistol or revolver, stun gun, taser, or other firearm
15consigned to a common carrier operating under license of the
16State of Illinois or the federal government, where such
17transportation, carrying, or possession is incident to the
18lawful transportation in which such common carrier is engaged;
19and nothing in this Article shall prohibit, apply to, or
20affect the transportation, carrying, or possession of any
21pistol, revolver, stun gun, taser, or other firearm, not the
22subject of and regulated by subsection 24-1(a)(7) or
23subsection 24-2(c) of this Article, which is unloaded and
24enclosed in a case, firearm carrying box, shipping box, or
25other container, by the possessor of a valid Firearm Owners
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1prohibit, apply to, or affect the transportation of any rifle,
2shotgun, or other long gun in a vehicle by a person who has
3been issued a currently valid Firearm Owner's Identification
4Card if the firearm is unloaded.
5(Source: P.A. 100-201, eff. 8-18-17; 101-80, eff. 7-12-19.)