Post by Demski on Jul 21, 2010 23:33:30 GMT -6
(From ChaplainGrillSgt and Illinois legal system)
"Firearm" means any device, by whatever name known, which is designed to expel a projectile or projectiles by the action of an explosion, expansion of gas or escape of gas; excluding however:
(1) any pneumatic gun, spring gun, paint ball gun or B-B gun which either expels a single globular projectile not exceeding .18 inch in diameter and which has a maximum muzzle velocity of less than 700 feet per second or breakable paint balls containing washable marking colors;
(2) any device used exclusively for signalling or safety and required or recommended by the United States Coast Guard or the Interstate Commerce Commission;
(3) any device used exclusively for the firing of stud cartridges, explosive rivets or similar industrial ammunition; and
(4) an antique firearm (other than a machine-gun) which, although designed as a weapon, the Department of State Police finds by reason of the date of its manufacture, value, design, and other characteristics is primarily a collector's item and is not likely to be used as a weapon.
(720 ILCS 5/24-1)
Sec. 24-1. Unlawful Use of Weapons.
(a) A person commits the offense of unlawful use of weapons when he knowingly:
(1) Sells, manufactures, purchases, possesses or carries any bludgeon, black-jack, slung-shot, sand-club,
sand-bag, metal knuckles, throwing star, or any knife, commonly referred to as a switchblade knife,
which has a blade that opens automatically by hand pressure applied to a button, spring or other device
in the handle of the knife, or a ballistic knife, which is a device that propels a knifelike blade as a projectile
by means of a coil spring, elastic material or compressed gas; or
(2) Carries or possesses with intent to use the same unlawfully against another, a dagger, dirk, billy, dangerous
knife, razor, stiletto, broken bottle or other piece of glass, stun gun or taser or any other dangerous
or deadly weapon or instrument of like character; or
(3) Carries on or about his person or in any vehicle, a tear gas gun projector or bomb or any object containing
noxious liquid gas or substance, other than an object containing a non-lethal noxious liquid gas or
substance designed solely for personal defense carried by a person 18 years of age or older; or
(4) Carries or possesses in any vehicle or concealed on or about his person except when on his land or in his
own abode or fixed place of business any pistol, revolver, stun gun or taser or other firearm, except that
this subsection (a) (4) does not apply to or affect transportation of weapons that meet one of the following
conditions:
(i) are broken down in a non-functioning state; or
(ii) are not immediately accessible; or
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(iii) are unloaded and enclosed in a case, firearm carrying box, shipping box, or other container by a
person who has been issued a currently valid Firearm Owner’s Identification Card; or
(5) Sets a spring gun; or
(6) Possesses any device or attachment of any kind designed, used or intended for use in silencing the
report of any firearm; or
(7) Sells, manufactures, purchases, possesses or carries:
(i) a machine gun, which shall be defined for the purposes of this subsection as any weapon, which
shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot
without manually reloading by a single function of the trigger, including the frame or receiver of any
such weapon, or sells, manufactures, purchases, possesses, or carries any combination of parts
designed or intended for use in converting any weapon into a machine gun, or any combination or
parts from which a machine gun can be assembled if such parts are in the possession or under the
control of a person;
(ii) any rifle having one or more barrels less than 16 inches in length or a shotgun having one or more
barrels less than 18 inches in length or any weapon made from a rifle or shotgun, whether by
alteration, modification, or otherwise, if such a weapon as modified has an overall length of less
than 26 inches; or
(iii) any bomb, bomb-shell, grenade, bottle or other container containing an explosive substance of
over one-quarter ounce for like purposes, such as, but not limited to, black powder bombs and
Molotov cocktails or artillery projectiles; or
(8) Carries or possesses any firearm, stun gun or taser or other deadly weapon in any place which is licensed
to sell intoxicating beverages, or at any public gathering held pursuant to a license issued by any
governmental body or any public gathering at which an admission is charged, excluding a place where a
showing, demonstration or lecture involving the exhibition of unloaded firearms is conducted.
This subsection (a) (8) does not apply to any auction or raffle of a firearm held pursuant to a license or
permit issued by a governmental body, nor does it apply to persons engaged in firearm safety training
courses; or
(9) Carries or possesses in a vehicle or on or about his person any pistol, revolver, stun gun or taser or
firearm or ballistic knife, when he is hooded, robed or masked in such manner as to conceal his identity;
or
(10) Carries or possesses on or about his person, upon any public street, alley, or other public lands within the
corporate limits of a city, village or incorporated town, except when an invitee thereon or therein, for the
purpose of the display of such weapon or the lawful commerce in weapons, or except when on his land
or in his own abode or fixed place of business, any pistol, revolver, stun gun or taser or other firearm,
except that this subsection (a) (10) does not apply to or affect transportation of weapons that meet on of
the following conditions:
(i) are broken down in a non-functioning state; or
(ii) are not immediately accessible; or
(iii) are unloaded and enclosed in a case, firearm carrying box, or other container by a person who has
been issued a currently valid Firearm Owner’s Identification Card.
A “stun gun or taser”, as used in this paragraph (a) means
(i) any device which is powered by electrical charging units, such as, batteries, and which fires one
or several barbs attached to a length of wire and which, upon hitting a human, can send out a
current capable of disrupting the person’s nervous system in such a manner as to render him
incapable of normal functioning or
(ii) any device which is powered by electrical charging units, such as batteries, and which, upon contact
with a human or clothing worn by a human, can send out current capable of disrupting the
person’s nervous system in such a manner as to render him incapable of normal functioning; or
(11) Sells, manufactures or purchases any explosive bullet. For purposes of this paragraph (a) “explosive
bullet” means the projectile portion of an ammunition cartridge which contains or carries an explosive
charge which will explode upon contact with the flesh of a human or an animal. “Cartridge” means a
tubular metal case having a projectile affixed at the front thereof and a cap or primer at the rear end
thereof, with the propellant contained in such tube between the projectile and the cap; or
(12) (Blank).
(b) Sentence. A person convicted of a violation of subsection 24-1(a)(1) through (5), subsection 24-1(a)(10), or
subsection 24-1(a)(11) commits a Class A misdemeanor. A person convicted of a violation of subsection 24-
1(a)(8), 24-1(a)(9), or 24-1(a)(10) commits a Class 4 felony; a person convicted of a violation of subsection
24-1(a)(6) or 24-1(a)(7)(ii) or (iii) commits a Class 3 felony. A person convicted of a violation of subsection 24-
1(a)(7)(i) commits a Class 2 felony, unless the weapon is possessed in the passenger compartment of a
motor vehicle as defined in Section 1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, or on the person, while the weapon is
loaded, in which case it shall be a Class X felony. A person convicted of a second or subsequent violation of
subsection 24-1(a)(4), 24-1(a)(9), or 24-1(a)(10) commits a Class 3 felony.
(c) Violations in specific places.
(1) A person who violates subsection 24-1(a)(6) or 24-1(a)(7) in any school, regardless of the time of day or
the time of year, in residential property owned, operated and managed by a public housing agency, in a
public park, in a courthouse, on the real property comprising any school, regardless of the time of day or
the time of year, on residential property owned, operated and managed by a public housing agency, on
the real property comprising any public park, on the real property comprising any courthouse, in any
conveyance owned, leased or contracted by a school to transport students to or from school or a school
related activity, or on any public way within 1,000 feet of the real property comprising any school, public
park, courthouse, or residential property owned, operated, and managed by a public housing agency
commits a Class 2 felony.
(1.5) A person who violates subsection 24-1(a)(4), 24-1(a)(9), or 24-1(a)(10) in any school, regardless of the
time of day or the time of year, in residential property owned, operated, and managed by a public housing
agency, in a public park, in a courthouse, on the real property comprising any school, regardless of the
time of day or the time of year, on residential property owned, operated, and managed by a public
housing agency, on the real property comprising any public park, on the real property comprising any
courthouse, in any conveyance owned, leased, or contracted by a school to transport students to or from
school or a school related activity, or on any public way within 1,000 feet of the real property comprising
any school, public park, courthouse, or residential property owned, operated, and managed by a public
housing agency commits a Class 3 felony.
(2) A person who violates subsection 24-1(a)(1) or 24-1(a)(3) in any school, regardless of the time of day or
the time of year, in residential property owned, operated and managed by a public housing agency, in a
public park, in a courthouse, on the real property comprising any school, regardless of the time of day or
the time of year, on residential property owned, operated and managed by a public housing agency, on
the real property comprising any public park, on the real property comprising any courthouse, in any
conveyance owned, leased or contracted by a school to transport students to or from school or a school
related activity, or on any public way within 1,000 feet of the real property comprising any school, public
park, courthouse, or residential property owned, operated, and managed by a public housing agency
commits a Class 4 felony. “Courthouse” means any building that is used by the Circuit, Appellate, or
Supreme Court of this State for the conduct of official business.
(3) Paragraphs (1), (1.5), and (2) of this subsection (c) shall not apply to law enforcement officers or security
officers of such school, college, or university or to students carrying or possessing firearms for use in
training courses, parades, hunting, target shooting on school ranges, or otherwise with the consent of
school authorities and which firearms are transported unloaded enclosed in a suitable case, box, or
transportation package.
(4) For the purposes of this subsection (c), “school” means any public or private elementary or secondary
school, community college, college, or university.
(d) The presence in an automobile other than a public omnibus of any weapon, instrument or substance referred
to in subsection (a)(7) is prima facie evidence that it is in the possession of, and is being carried by, all
persons occupying such automobile at the time such weapon, instrument or substance is found, except under
the following circumstances: (i) if such weapon, instrument or instrumentality is found upon the person of one
of the occupants therein; or (ii) if such weapon, instrument or substance is found in an automobile operated
for hire by a duly licensed driver in the due, lawful and proper pursuit of his trade, then such presumption shall
not apply to the driver.
(e) Exemptions. Crossbows, Common or Compound bows and Underwater Spearguns are exempted from the
definition of ballistic knife as defined in paragraph (1) of subsection (a) of this Section.
(720 ILCS 5/24-1)
Sec. 24-1. Unlawful Use of Weapons.
(a) A person commits the offense of unlawful use of weapons when he knowingly:
(1) Sells, manufactures, purchases, possesses or carries any bludgeon, black-jack, slung-shot, sand-club,
sand-bag, metal knuckles, throwing star, or any knife, commonly referred to as a switchblade knife,
which has a blade that opens automatically by hand pressure applied to a button, spring or other device
in the handle of the knife, or a ballistic knife, which is a device that propels a knifelike blade as a projectile
by means of a coil spring, elastic material or compressed gas; or
(2) Carries or possesses with intent to use the same unlawfully against another, a dagger, dirk, billy, dangerous
knife, razor, stiletto, broken bottle or other piece of glass, stun gun or taser or any other dangerous
or deadly weapon or instrument of like character; or
(3) Carries on or about his person or in any vehicle, a tear gas gun projector or bomb or any object containing
noxious liquid gas or substance, other than an object containing a non-lethal noxious liquid gas or
substance designed solely for personal defense carried by a person 18 years of age or older; or
(4) Carries or possesses in any vehicle or concealed on or about his person except when on his land or in his
own abode or fixed place of business any pistol, revolver, stun gun or taser or other firearm, except that
this subsection (a) (4) does not apply to or affect transportation of weapons that meet one of the following
conditions:
(i) are broken down in a non-functioning state; or
(ii) are not immediately accessible; or
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(iii) are unloaded and enclosed in a case, firearm carrying box, shipping box, or other container by a
person who has been issued a currently valid Firearm Owner’s Identification Card; or
(5) Sets a spring gun; or
(6) Possesses any device or attachment of any kind designed, used or intended for use in silencing the
report of any firearm; or
(7) Sells, manufactures, purchases, possesses or carries:
(i) a machine gun, which shall be defined for the purposes of this subsection as any weapon, which
shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot
without manually reloading by a single function of the trigger, including the frame or receiver of any
such weapon, or sells, manufactures, purchases, possesses, or carries any combination of parts
designed or intended for use in converting any weapon into a machine gun, or any combination or
parts from which a machine gun can be assembled if such parts are in the possession or under the
control of a person;
(ii) any rifle having one or more barrels less than 16 inches in length or a shotgun having one or more
barrels less than 18 inches in length or any weapon made from a rifle or shotgun, whether by
alteration, modification, or otherwise, if such a weapon as modified has an overall length of less
than 26 inches; or
(iii) any bomb, bomb-shell, grenade, bottle or other container containing an explosive substance of
over one-quarter ounce for like purposes, such as, but not limited to, black powder bombs and
Molotov cocktails or artillery projectiles; or
(8) Carries or possesses any firearm, stun gun or taser or other deadly weapon in any place which is licensed
to sell intoxicating beverages, or at any public gathering held pursuant to a license issued by any
governmental body or any public gathering at which an admission is charged, excluding a place where a
showing, demonstration or lecture involving the exhibition of unloaded firearms is conducted.
This subsection (a) (8) does not apply to any auction or raffle of a firearm held pursuant to a license or
permit issued by a governmental body, nor does it apply to persons engaged in firearm safety training
courses; or
(9) Carries or possesses in a vehicle or on or about his person any pistol, revolver, stun gun or taser or
firearm or ballistic knife, when he is hooded, robed or masked in such manner as to conceal his identity;
or
(10) Carries or possesses on or about his person, upon any public street, alley, or other public lands within the
corporate limits of a city, village or incorporated town, except when an invitee thereon or therein, for the
purpose of the display of such weapon or the lawful commerce in weapons, or except when on his land
or in his own abode or fixed place of business, any pistol, revolver, stun gun or taser or other firearm,
except that this subsection (a) (10) does not apply to or affect transportation of weapons that meet on of
the following conditions:
(i) are broken down in a non-functioning state; or
(ii) are not immediately accessible; or
(iii) are unloaded and enclosed in a case, firearm carrying box, or other container by a person who has
been issued a currently valid Firearm Owner’s Identification Card.
A “stun gun or taser”, as used in this paragraph (a) means
(i) any device which is powered by electrical charging units, such as, batteries, and which fires one
or several barbs attached to a length of wire and which, upon hitting a human, can send out a
current capable of disrupting the person’s nervous system in such a manner as to render him
incapable of normal functioning or
(ii) any device which is powered by electrical charging units, such as batteries, and which, upon contact
with a human or clothing worn by a human, can send out current capable of disrupting the
person’s nervous system in such a manner as to render him incapable of normal functioning; or
(11) Sells, manufactures or purchases any explosive bullet. For purposes of this paragraph (a) “explosive
bullet” means the projectile portion of an ammunition cartridge which contains or carries an explosive
charge which will explode upon contact with the flesh of a human or an animal. “Cartridge” means a
tubular metal case having a projectile affixed at the front thereof and a cap or primer at the rear end
thereof, with the propellant contained in such tube between the projectile and the cap; or
(12) (Blank).
(b) Sentence. A person convicted of a violation of subsection 24-1(a)(1) through (5), subsection 24-1(a)(10), or
subsection 24-1(a)(11) commits a Class A misdemeanor. A person convicted of a violation of subsection 24-
1(a)(8), 24-1(a)(9), or 24-1(a)(10) commits a Class 4 felony; a person convicted of a violation of subsection
24-1(a)(6) or 24-1(a)(7)(ii) or (iii) commits a Class 3 felony. A person convicted of a violation of subsection 24-
1(a)(7)(i) commits a Class 2 felony, unless the weapon is possessed in the passenger compartment of a
motor vehicle as defined in Section 1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, or on the person, while the weapon is
loaded, in which case it shall be a Class X felony. A person convicted of a second or subsequent violation of
subsection 24-1(a)(4), 24-1(a)(9), or 24-1(a)(10) commits a Class 3 felony.
(c) Violations in specific places.
(1) A person who violates subsection 24-1(a)(6) or 24-1(a)(7) in any school, regardless of the time of day or
the time of year, in residential property owned, operated and managed by a public housing agency, in a
public park, in a courthouse, on the real property comprising any school, regardless of the time of day or
the time of year, on residential property owned, operated and managed by a public housing agency, on
the real property comprising any public park, on the real property comprising any courthouse, in any
conveyance owned, leased or contracted by a school to transport students to or from school or a school
related activity, or on any public way within 1,000 feet of the real property comprising any school, public
park, courthouse, or residential property owned, operated, and managed by a public housing agency
commits a Class 2 felony.
(1.5) A person who violates subsection 24-1(a)(4), 24-1(a)(9), or 24-1(a)(10) in any school, regardless of the
time of day or the time of year, in residential property owned, operated, and managed by a public housing
agency, in a public park, in a courthouse, on the real property comprising any school, regardless of the
time of day or the time of year, on residential property owned, operated, and managed by a public
housing agency, on the real property comprising any public park, on the real property comprising any
courthouse, in any conveyance owned, leased, or contracted by a school to transport students to or from
school or a school related activity, or on any public way within 1,000 feet of the real property comprising
any school, public park, courthouse, or residential property owned, operated, and managed by a public
housing agency commits a Class 3 felony.
(2) A person who violates subsection 24-1(a)(1) or 24-1(a)(3) in any school, regardless of the time of day or
the time of year, in residential property owned, operated and managed by a public housing agency, in a
public park, in a courthouse, on the real property comprising any school, regardless of the time of day or
the time of year, on residential property owned, operated and managed by a public housing agency, on
the real property comprising any public park, on the real property comprising any courthouse, in any
conveyance owned, leased or contracted by a school to transport students to or from school or a school
related activity, or on any public way within 1,000 feet of the real property comprising any school, public
park, courthouse, or residential property owned, operated, and managed by a public housing agency
commits a Class 4 felony. “Courthouse” means any building that is used by the Circuit, Appellate, or
Supreme Court of this State for the conduct of official business.
(3) Paragraphs (1), (1.5), and (2) of this subsection (c) shall not apply to law enforcement officers or security
officers of such school, college, or university or to students carrying or possessing firearms for use in
training courses, parades, hunting, target shooting on school ranges, or otherwise with the consent of
school authorities and which firearms are transported unloaded enclosed in a suitable case, box, or
transportation package.
(4) For the purposes of this subsection (c), “school” means any public or private elementary or secondary
school, community college, college, or university.
(d) The presence in an automobile other than a public omnibus of any weapon, instrument or substance referred
to in subsection (a)(7) is prima facie evidence that it is in the possession of, and is being carried by, all
persons occupying such automobile at the time such weapon, instrument or substance is found, except under
the following circumstances: (i) if such weapon, instrument or instrumentality is found upon the person of one
of the occupants therein; or (ii) if such weapon, instrument or substance is found in an automobile operated
for hire by a duly licensed driver in the due, lawful and proper pursuit of his trade, then such presumption shall
not apply to the driver.
(e) Exemptions. Crossbows, Common or Compound bows and Underwater Spearguns are exempted from the
definition of ballistic knife as defined in paragraph (1) of subsection (a) of this Section.
Know the gun laws to keep yourself safe and to keep our sport safe. More information at
sangamoncorifleassociation.org/i ... ptfire.pdf
www.isp.state.il.us/foid/firearms.cfm
-CGS
"Firearm" means any device, by whatever name known, which is designed to expel a projectile or projectiles by the action of an explosion, expansion of gas or escape of gas; excluding however:
(1) any pneumatic gun, spring gun, paint ball gun or B-B gun which either expels a single globular projectile not exceeding .18 inch in diameter and which has a maximum muzzle velocity of less than 700 feet per second or breakable paint balls containing washable marking colors;
(2) any device used exclusively for signalling or safety and required or recommended by the United States Coast Guard or the Interstate Commerce Commission;
(3) any device used exclusively for the firing of stud cartridges, explosive rivets or similar industrial ammunition; and
(4) an antique firearm (other than a machine-gun) which, although designed as a weapon, the Department of State Police finds by reason of the date of its manufacture, value, design, and other characteristics is primarily a collector's item and is not likely to be used as a weapon.
(720 ILCS 5/24-1)
Sec. 24-1. Unlawful Use of Weapons.
(a) A person commits the offense of unlawful use of weapons when he knowingly:
(1) Sells, manufactures, purchases, possesses or carries any bludgeon, black-jack, slung-shot, sand-club,
sand-bag, metal knuckles, throwing star, or any knife, commonly referred to as a switchblade knife,
which has a blade that opens automatically by hand pressure applied to a button, spring or other device
in the handle of the knife, or a ballistic knife, which is a device that propels a knifelike blade as a projectile
by means of a coil spring, elastic material or compressed gas; or
(2) Carries or possesses with intent to use the same unlawfully against another, a dagger, dirk, billy, dangerous
knife, razor, stiletto, broken bottle or other piece of glass, stun gun or taser or any other dangerous
or deadly weapon or instrument of like character; or
(3) Carries on or about his person or in any vehicle, a tear gas gun projector or bomb or any object containing
noxious liquid gas or substance, other than an object containing a non-lethal noxious liquid gas or
substance designed solely for personal defense carried by a person 18 years of age or older; or
(4) Carries or possesses in any vehicle or concealed on or about his person except when on his land or in his
own abode or fixed place of business any pistol, revolver, stun gun or taser or other firearm, except that
this subsection (a) (4) does not apply to or affect transportation of weapons that meet one of the following
conditions:
(i) are broken down in a non-functioning state; or
(ii) are not immediately accessible; or
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(iii) are unloaded and enclosed in a case, firearm carrying box, shipping box, or other container by a
person who has been issued a currently valid Firearm Owner’s Identification Card; or
(5) Sets a spring gun; or
(6) Possesses any device or attachment of any kind designed, used or intended for use in silencing the
report of any firearm; or
(7) Sells, manufactures, purchases, possesses or carries:
(i) a machine gun, which shall be defined for the purposes of this subsection as any weapon, which
shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot
without manually reloading by a single function of the trigger, including the frame or receiver of any
such weapon, or sells, manufactures, purchases, possesses, or carries any combination of parts
designed or intended for use in converting any weapon into a machine gun, or any combination or
parts from which a machine gun can be assembled if such parts are in the possession or under the
control of a person;
(ii) any rifle having one or more barrels less than 16 inches in length or a shotgun having one or more
barrels less than 18 inches in length or any weapon made from a rifle or shotgun, whether by
alteration, modification, or otherwise, if such a weapon as modified has an overall length of less
than 26 inches; or
(iii) any bomb, bomb-shell, grenade, bottle or other container containing an explosive substance of
over one-quarter ounce for like purposes, such as, but not limited to, black powder bombs and
Molotov cocktails or artillery projectiles; or
(8) Carries or possesses any firearm, stun gun or taser or other deadly weapon in any place which is licensed
to sell intoxicating beverages, or at any public gathering held pursuant to a license issued by any
governmental body or any public gathering at which an admission is charged, excluding a place where a
showing, demonstration or lecture involving the exhibition of unloaded firearms is conducted.
This subsection (a) (8) does not apply to any auction or raffle of a firearm held pursuant to a license or
permit issued by a governmental body, nor does it apply to persons engaged in firearm safety training
courses; or
(9) Carries or possesses in a vehicle or on or about his person any pistol, revolver, stun gun or taser or
firearm or ballistic knife, when he is hooded, robed or masked in such manner as to conceal his identity;
or
(10) Carries or possesses on or about his person, upon any public street, alley, or other public lands within the
corporate limits of a city, village or incorporated town, except when an invitee thereon or therein, for the
purpose of the display of such weapon or the lawful commerce in weapons, or except when on his land
or in his own abode or fixed place of business, any pistol, revolver, stun gun or taser or other firearm,
except that this subsection (a) (10) does not apply to or affect transportation of weapons that meet on of
the following conditions:
(i) are broken down in a non-functioning state; or
(ii) are not immediately accessible; or
(iii) are unloaded and enclosed in a case, firearm carrying box, or other container by a person who has
been issued a currently valid Firearm Owner’s Identification Card.
A “stun gun or taser”, as used in this paragraph (a) means
(i) any device which is powered by electrical charging units, such as, batteries, and which fires one
or several barbs attached to a length of wire and which, upon hitting a human, can send out a
current capable of disrupting the person’s nervous system in such a manner as to render him
incapable of normal functioning or
(ii) any device which is powered by electrical charging units, such as batteries, and which, upon contact
with a human or clothing worn by a human, can send out current capable of disrupting the
person’s nervous system in such a manner as to render him incapable of normal functioning; or
(11) Sells, manufactures or purchases any explosive bullet. For purposes of this paragraph (a) “explosive
bullet” means the projectile portion of an ammunition cartridge which contains or carries an explosive
charge which will explode upon contact with the flesh of a human or an animal. “Cartridge” means a
tubular metal case having a projectile affixed at the front thereof and a cap or primer at the rear end
thereof, with the propellant contained in such tube between the projectile and the cap; or
(12) (Blank).
(b) Sentence. A person convicted of a violation of subsection 24-1(a)(1) through (5), subsection 24-1(a)(10), or
subsection 24-1(a)(11) commits a Class A misdemeanor. A person convicted of a violation of subsection 24-
1(a)(8), 24-1(a)(9), or 24-1(a)(10) commits a Class 4 felony; a person convicted of a violation of subsection
24-1(a)(6) or 24-1(a)(7)(ii) or (iii) commits a Class 3 felony. A person convicted of a violation of subsection 24-
1(a)(7)(i) commits a Class 2 felony, unless the weapon is possessed in the passenger compartment of a
motor vehicle as defined in Section 1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, or on the person, while the weapon is
loaded, in which case it shall be a Class X felony. A person convicted of a second or subsequent violation of
subsection 24-1(a)(4), 24-1(a)(9), or 24-1(a)(10) commits a Class 3 felony.
(c) Violations in specific places.
(1) A person who violates subsection 24-1(a)(6) or 24-1(a)(7) in any school, regardless of the time of day or
the time of year, in residential property owned, operated and managed by a public housing agency, in a
public park, in a courthouse, on the real property comprising any school, regardless of the time of day or
the time of year, on residential property owned, operated and managed by a public housing agency, on
the real property comprising any public park, on the real property comprising any courthouse, in any
conveyance owned, leased or contracted by a school to transport students to or from school or a school
related activity, or on any public way within 1,000 feet of the real property comprising any school, public
park, courthouse, or residential property owned, operated, and managed by a public housing agency
commits a Class 2 felony.
(1.5) A person who violates subsection 24-1(a)(4), 24-1(a)(9), or 24-1(a)(10) in any school, regardless of the
time of day or the time of year, in residential property owned, operated, and managed by a public housing
agency, in a public park, in a courthouse, on the real property comprising any school, regardless of the
time of day or the time of year, on residential property owned, operated, and managed by a public
housing agency, on the real property comprising any public park, on the real property comprising any
courthouse, in any conveyance owned, leased, or contracted by a school to transport students to or from
school or a school related activity, or on any public way within 1,000 feet of the real property comprising
any school, public park, courthouse, or residential property owned, operated, and managed by a public
housing agency commits a Class 3 felony.
(2) A person who violates subsection 24-1(a)(1) or 24-1(a)(3) in any school, regardless of the time of day or
the time of year, in residential property owned, operated and managed by a public housing agency, in a
public park, in a courthouse, on the real property comprising any school, regardless of the time of day or
the time of year, on residential property owned, operated and managed by a public housing agency, on
the real property comprising any public park, on the real property comprising any courthouse, in any
conveyance owned, leased or contracted by a school to transport students to or from school or a school
related activity, or on any public way within 1,000 feet of the real property comprising any school, public
park, courthouse, or residential property owned, operated, and managed by a public housing agency
commits a Class 4 felony. “Courthouse” means any building that is used by the Circuit, Appellate, or
Supreme Court of this State for the conduct of official business.
(3) Paragraphs (1), (1.5), and (2) of this subsection (c) shall not apply to law enforcement officers or security
officers of such school, college, or university or to students carrying or possessing firearms for use in
training courses, parades, hunting, target shooting on school ranges, or otherwise with the consent of
school authorities and which firearms are transported unloaded enclosed in a suitable case, box, or
transportation package.
(4) For the purposes of this subsection (c), “school” means any public or private elementary or secondary
school, community college, college, or university.
(d) The presence in an automobile other than a public omnibus of any weapon, instrument or substance referred
to in subsection (a)(7) is prima facie evidence that it is in the possession of, and is being carried by, all
persons occupying such automobile at the time such weapon, instrument or substance is found, except under
the following circumstances: (i) if such weapon, instrument or instrumentality is found upon the person of one
of the occupants therein; or (ii) if such weapon, instrument or substance is found in an automobile operated
for hire by a duly licensed driver in the due, lawful and proper pursuit of his trade, then such presumption shall
not apply to the driver.
(e) Exemptions. Crossbows, Common or Compound bows and Underwater Spearguns are exempted from the
definition of ballistic knife as defined in paragraph (1) of subsection (a) of this Section.
(720 ILCS 5/24-1)
Sec. 24-1. Unlawful Use of Weapons.
(a) A person commits the offense of unlawful use of weapons when he knowingly:
(1) Sells, manufactures, purchases, possesses or carries any bludgeon, black-jack, slung-shot, sand-club,
sand-bag, metal knuckles, throwing star, or any knife, commonly referred to as a switchblade knife,
which has a blade that opens automatically by hand pressure applied to a button, spring or other device
in the handle of the knife, or a ballistic knife, which is a device that propels a knifelike blade as a projectile
by means of a coil spring, elastic material or compressed gas; or
(2) Carries or possesses with intent to use the same unlawfully against another, a dagger, dirk, billy, dangerous
knife, razor, stiletto, broken bottle or other piece of glass, stun gun or taser or any other dangerous
or deadly weapon or instrument of like character; or
(3) Carries on or about his person or in any vehicle, a tear gas gun projector or bomb or any object containing
noxious liquid gas or substance, other than an object containing a non-lethal noxious liquid gas or
substance designed solely for personal defense carried by a person 18 years of age or older; or
(4) Carries or possesses in any vehicle or concealed on or about his person except when on his land or in his
own abode or fixed place of business any pistol, revolver, stun gun or taser or other firearm, except that
this subsection (a) (4) does not apply to or affect transportation of weapons that meet one of the following
conditions:
(i) are broken down in a non-functioning state; or
(ii) are not immediately accessible; or
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(iii) are unloaded and enclosed in a case, firearm carrying box, shipping box, or other container by a
person who has been issued a currently valid Firearm Owner’s Identification Card; or
(5) Sets a spring gun; or
(6) Possesses any device or attachment of any kind designed, used or intended for use in silencing the
report of any firearm; or
(7) Sells, manufactures, purchases, possesses or carries:
(i) a machine gun, which shall be defined for the purposes of this subsection as any weapon, which
shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot
without manually reloading by a single function of the trigger, including the frame or receiver of any
such weapon, or sells, manufactures, purchases, possesses, or carries any combination of parts
designed or intended for use in converting any weapon into a machine gun, or any combination or
parts from which a machine gun can be assembled if such parts are in the possession or under the
control of a person;
(ii) any rifle having one or more barrels less than 16 inches in length or a shotgun having one or more
barrels less than 18 inches in length or any weapon made from a rifle or shotgun, whether by
alteration, modification, or otherwise, if such a weapon as modified has an overall length of less
than 26 inches; or
(iii) any bomb, bomb-shell, grenade, bottle or other container containing an explosive substance of
over one-quarter ounce for like purposes, such as, but not limited to, black powder bombs and
Molotov cocktails or artillery projectiles; or
(8) Carries or possesses any firearm, stun gun or taser or other deadly weapon in any place which is licensed
to sell intoxicating beverages, or at any public gathering held pursuant to a license issued by any
governmental body or any public gathering at which an admission is charged, excluding a place where a
showing, demonstration or lecture involving the exhibition of unloaded firearms is conducted.
This subsection (a) (8) does not apply to any auction or raffle of a firearm held pursuant to a license or
permit issued by a governmental body, nor does it apply to persons engaged in firearm safety training
courses; or
(9) Carries or possesses in a vehicle or on or about his person any pistol, revolver, stun gun or taser or
firearm or ballistic knife, when he is hooded, robed or masked in such manner as to conceal his identity;
or
(10) Carries or possesses on or about his person, upon any public street, alley, or other public lands within the
corporate limits of a city, village or incorporated town, except when an invitee thereon or therein, for the
purpose of the display of such weapon or the lawful commerce in weapons, or except when on his land
or in his own abode or fixed place of business, any pistol, revolver, stun gun or taser or other firearm,
except that this subsection (a) (10) does not apply to or affect transportation of weapons that meet on of
the following conditions:
(i) are broken down in a non-functioning state; or
(ii) are not immediately accessible; or
(iii) are unloaded and enclosed in a case, firearm carrying box, or other container by a person who has
been issued a currently valid Firearm Owner’s Identification Card.
A “stun gun or taser”, as used in this paragraph (a) means
(i) any device which is powered by electrical charging units, such as, batteries, and which fires one
or several barbs attached to a length of wire and which, upon hitting a human, can send out a
current capable of disrupting the person’s nervous system in such a manner as to render him
incapable of normal functioning or
(ii) any device which is powered by electrical charging units, such as batteries, and which, upon contact
with a human or clothing worn by a human, can send out current capable of disrupting the
person’s nervous system in such a manner as to render him incapable of normal functioning; or
(11) Sells, manufactures or purchases any explosive bullet. For purposes of this paragraph (a) “explosive
bullet” means the projectile portion of an ammunition cartridge which contains or carries an explosive
charge which will explode upon contact with the flesh of a human or an animal. “Cartridge” means a
tubular metal case having a projectile affixed at the front thereof and a cap or primer at the rear end
thereof, with the propellant contained in such tube between the projectile and the cap; or
(12) (Blank).
(b) Sentence. A person convicted of a violation of subsection 24-1(a)(1) through (5), subsection 24-1(a)(10), or
subsection 24-1(a)(11) commits a Class A misdemeanor. A person convicted of a violation of subsection 24-
1(a)(8), 24-1(a)(9), or 24-1(a)(10) commits a Class 4 felony; a person convicted of a violation of subsection
24-1(a)(6) or 24-1(a)(7)(ii) or (iii) commits a Class 3 felony. A person convicted of a violation of subsection 24-
1(a)(7)(i) commits a Class 2 felony, unless the weapon is possessed in the passenger compartment of a
motor vehicle as defined in Section 1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, or on the person, while the weapon is
loaded, in which case it shall be a Class X felony. A person convicted of a second or subsequent violation of
subsection 24-1(a)(4), 24-1(a)(9), or 24-1(a)(10) commits a Class 3 felony.
(c) Violations in specific places.
(1) A person who violates subsection 24-1(a)(6) or 24-1(a)(7) in any school, regardless of the time of day or
the time of year, in residential property owned, operated and managed by a public housing agency, in a
public park, in a courthouse, on the real property comprising any school, regardless of the time of day or
the time of year, on residential property owned, operated and managed by a public housing agency, on
the real property comprising any public park, on the real property comprising any courthouse, in any
conveyance owned, leased or contracted by a school to transport students to or from school or a school
related activity, or on any public way within 1,000 feet of the real property comprising any school, public
park, courthouse, or residential property owned, operated, and managed by a public housing agency
commits a Class 2 felony.
(1.5) A person who violates subsection 24-1(a)(4), 24-1(a)(9), or 24-1(a)(10) in any school, regardless of the
time of day or the time of year, in residential property owned, operated, and managed by a public housing
agency, in a public park, in a courthouse, on the real property comprising any school, regardless of the
time of day or the time of year, on residential property owned, operated, and managed by a public
housing agency, on the real property comprising any public park, on the real property comprising any
courthouse, in any conveyance owned, leased, or contracted by a school to transport students to or from
school or a school related activity, or on any public way within 1,000 feet of the real property comprising
any school, public park, courthouse, or residential property owned, operated, and managed by a public
housing agency commits a Class 3 felony.
(2) A person who violates subsection 24-1(a)(1) or 24-1(a)(3) in any school, regardless of the time of day or
the time of year, in residential property owned, operated and managed by a public housing agency, in a
public park, in a courthouse, on the real property comprising any school, regardless of the time of day or
the time of year, on residential property owned, operated and managed by a public housing agency, on
the real property comprising any public park, on the real property comprising any courthouse, in any
conveyance owned, leased or contracted by a school to transport students to or from school or a school
related activity, or on any public way within 1,000 feet of the real property comprising any school, public
park, courthouse, or residential property owned, operated, and managed by a public housing agency
commits a Class 4 felony. “Courthouse” means any building that is used by the Circuit, Appellate, or
Supreme Court of this State for the conduct of official business.
(3) Paragraphs (1), (1.5), and (2) of this subsection (c) shall not apply to law enforcement officers or security
officers of such school, college, or university or to students carrying or possessing firearms for use in
training courses, parades, hunting, target shooting on school ranges, or otherwise with the consent of
school authorities and which firearms are transported unloaded enclosed in a suitable case, box, or
transportation package.
(4) For the purposes of this subsection (c), “school” means any public or private elementary or secondary
school, community college, college, or university.
(d) The presence in an automobile other than a public omnibus of any weapon, instrument or substance referred
to in subsection (a)(7) is prima facie evidence that it is in the possession of, and is being carried by, all
persons occupying such automobile at the time such weapon, instrument or substance is found, except under
the following circumstances: (i) if such weapon, instrument or instrumentality is found upon the person of one
of the occupants therein; or (ii) if such weapon, instrument or substance is found in an automobile operated
for hire by a duly licensed driver in the due, lawful and proper pursuit of his trade, then such presumption shall
not apply to the driver.
(e) Exemptions. Crossbows, Common or Compound bows and Underwater Spearguns are exempted from the
definition of ballistic knife as defined in paragraph (1) of subsection (a) of this Section.
Know the gun laws to keep yourself safe and to keep our sport safe. More information at
sangamoncorifleassociation.org/i ... ptfire.pdf
www.isp.state.il.us/foid/firearms.cfm
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