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1 | AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by changing | |||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Sections 24-1 and 24-1.6 as follows:
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6 | (720 ILCS 5/24-1) (from Ch. 38, par. 24-1)
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7 | Sec. 24-1. Unlawful Use of Weapons.
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8 | (a) A person commits the offense of unlawful use of weapons | |||||||||||||||||||||
9 | when
he or she knowingly:
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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 knife, | |||||||||||||||||||||
14 | commonly referred to as a switchblade knife, which has a
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15 | blade that opens automatically by hand pressure applied to | |||||||||||||||||||||
16 | a button,
spring or other device in the handle of the | |||||||||||||||||||||
17 | knife, or a ballistic knife,
which is a device that propels | |||||||||||||||||||||
18 | a knifelike blade as a projectile by means
of a coil | |||||||||||||||||||||
19 | spring, elastic material or compressed gas; or
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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
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2 | (3) Carries on or about his or her person or in any | ||||||
3 | vehicle, a tear gas gun
projector or bomb or any object | ||||||
4 | containing noxious liquid gas or
substance, other than an | ||||||
5 | object containing a non-lethal noxious liquid gas
or | ||||||
6 | substance designed solely for personal defense carried by a | ||||||
7 | person 18
years of age or older; or
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8 | (4) Carries or possesses openly in any vehicle or | ||||||
9 | concealed on or about his
or her person or in any vehicle, | ||||||
10 | any pistol or revolver, and has not been issued a currently | ||||||
11 | valid Firearm Owner's Identification Card, or has been | ||||||
12 | issued a currently valid Firearm Owner's Identification | ||||||
13 | Card and is under 21 years of age, or any stun gun, taser, | ||||||
14 | or other firearm, with or without, a currently valid | ||||||
15 | Firearm Owner's Identification Card issued to the person, | ||||||
16 | except : | ||||||
17 | (A) when on his or her land or in his or her own | ||||||
18 | abode, legal dwelling, or fixed place of
business, or | ||||||
19 | on the land or in the legal dwelling of another person | ||||||
20 | as an invitee with that person's permission ; and , any | ||||||
21 | pistol, revolver, stun gun or taser or other firearm, | ||||||
22 | except
that
this subsection (a) (4) does not apply to | ||||||
23 | or affect | ||||||
24 | (B) transportation of weapons
that meet one of the | ||||||
25 | following conditions:
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26 | (i) are broken down in a non-functioning |
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1 | state; or
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2 | (ii) are not immediately accessible; or
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3 | (iii) are unloaded and enclosed in a case, | ||||||
4 | firearm carrying box,
shipping box, or other | ||||||
5 | container by a person who has been issued a | ||||||
6 | currently
valid Firearm Owner's
Identification | ||||||
7 | Card; or
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8 | (5) Sets a spring gun; or
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9 | (6) Possesses any device or attachment of any kind | ||||||
10 | designed, used or
intended for use in silencing the report | ||||||
11 | of any firearm; or
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12 | (7) Sells, manufactures, purchases, possesses or | ||||||
13 | carries:
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14 | (i) a machine gun, which shall be defined for the | ||||||
15 | purposes of this
subsection as any weapon,
which | ||||||
16 | shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily | ||||||
17 | restored to shoot,
automatically more than one shot | ||||||
18 | without manually reloading by a single
function of the | ||||||
19 | trigger, including the frame or receiver
of any such | ||||||
20 | weapon, or sells, manufactures, purchases, possesses, | ||||||
21 | or
carries any combination of parts designed or | ||||||
22 | intended for
use in converting any weapon into a | ||||||
23 | machine gun, or any combination or
parts from which a | ||||||
24 | machine gun can be assembled if such parts are in the
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25 | possession or under the control of a person;
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26 | (ii) any rifle having one or
more barrels less than |
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1 | 16 inches in length or a shotgun having one or more
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2 | barrels less than 18 inches in length or any weapon | ||||||
3 | made from a rifle or
shotgun, whether by alteration, | ||||||
4 | modification, or otherwise, if such a weapon
as | ||||||
5 | modified has an overall length of less than 26 inches; | ||||||
6 | or
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7 | (iii) any
bomb, bomb-shell, grenade, bottle or | ||||||
8 | other container containing an
explosive substance of | ||||||
9 | over one-quarter ounce for like purposes, such
as, but | ||||||
10 | not limited to, black powder bombs and Molotov | ||||||
11 | cocktails or
artillery projectiles; or
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12 | (8) Carries or possesses any firearm, stun gun or taser | ||||||
13 | or other
deadly weapon in any place which is licensed to | ||||||
14 | sell intoxicating
beverages, or at any public gathering | ||||||
15 | held pursuant to a license issued
by any governmental body | ||||||
16 | or any public gathering at which an admission
is charged, | ||||||
17 | excluding a place where a showing, demonstration or lecture
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18 | involving the exhibition of unloaded firearms is | ||||||
19 | conducted.
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20 | This subsection (a)(8) does not apply to any auction or | ||||||
21 | raffle of a firearm
held pursuant to
a license or permit | ||||||
22 | issued by a governmental body, nor does it apply to persons
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23 | engaged
in firearm safety training courses; or
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24 | (9) Carries or possesses in a vehicle or on or about | ||||||
25 | his or her person any
pistol, revolver, stun gun or taser | ||||||
26 | or firearm or ballistic knife, when
he is hooded, robed or |
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1 | masked in such manner as to conceal his or her identity; or
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2 | (10) Carries or possesses openly on or about his or her | ||||||
3 | person, upon any public street,
alley, or other public | ||||||
4 | lands within the corporate limits of a city, village
or | ||||||
5 | incorporated town any pistol or revolver, and has not been | ||||||
6 | issued a currently valid Firearm Owner's Identification | ||||||
7 | Card, or has been issued a currently valid Firearm Owner's | ||||||
8 | Identification Card and is under 21 years of age, or any | ||||||
9 | stun gun, taser, or other firearm, with or without, a | ||||||
10 | currently valid Firearm Owner's Identification Card issued | ||||||
11 | to the person , except : | ||||||
12 | (A) when an invitee thereon or therein, for the
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13 | purpose of the display of the such weapon or the lawful | ||||||
14 | commerce in weapons | ||||||
15 | (B) , or
except when on his or her land or in his | ||||||
16 | or her own abode, legal dwelling, or fixed place of | ||||||
17 | business, or on the land or in the legal dwelling of | ||||||
18 | another person as an invitee with that person's | ||||||
19 | permission ; and , any
pistol, revolver, stun gun or | ||||||
20 | taser or other firearm, except that this
subsection (a) | ||||||
21 | (10) does not apply to or affect | ||||||
22 | (C) transportation of weapons that
meet one of the | ||||||
23 | following conditions:
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24 | (i) are broken down in a non-functioning | ||||||
25 | state; or
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26 | (ii) are not immediately accessible; or
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1 | (iii) are unloaded and enclosed in a case, | ||||||
2 | firearm carrying box,
shipping box, or other | ||||||
3 | container by a person who has been issued a | ||||||
4 | currently
valid Firearm Owner's
Identification | ||||||
5 | Card.
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6 | A "stun gun or taser", as used in this subsection | ||||||
7 | paragraph (a) means (i) any device
which is powered by | ||||||
8 | electrical charging units, such as, batteries, and
which | ||||||
9 | fires one or several barbs attached to a length of wire and
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10 | which, upon hitting a human, can send out a current capable | ||||||
11 | of disrupting
the person's nervous system in such a manner | ||||||
12 | as to render him incapable of
normal functioning or (ii) | ||||||
13 | any device which is powered by electrical
charging units, | ||||||
14 | such as batteries, and which, upon contact with a human or
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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
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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 having | ||||||
24 | a projectile affixed at the
front thereof and a cap or | ||||||
25 | 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
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2 | (12) (Blank); or
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3 | (13) Carries or possesses on or about his or her person | ||||||
4 | while in a building occupied by a unit of government, a | ||||||
5 | billy club, other weapon of like character, or other | ||||||
6 | instrument of like character intended for use as a weapon. | ||||||
7 | For the purposes of this Section, "billy club" means a | ||||||
8 | short stick or club commonly carried by police officers | ||||||
9 | which is either telescopic or constructed of a solid piece | ||||||
10 | of wood or other man-made material. | ||||||
11 | (b) Sentence. A person convicted of a violation of | ||||||
12 | subsection 24-1(a)(1)
through (5), subsection 24-1(a)(10),
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13 | subsection 24-1(a)(11), or subsection 24-1(a)(13) commits a | ||||||
14 | Class A
misdemeanor.
A person convicted of a violation of | ||||||
15 | subsection
24-1(a)(8) or 24-1(a)(9) commits a
Class 4 felony; a | ||||||
16 | person
convicted of a violation of subsection 24-1(a)(6) or | ||||||
17 | 24-1(a)(7)(ii) or (iii)
commits a Class 3 felony. A person | ||||||
18 | convicted of a violation of subsection
24-1(a)(7)(i) commits a | ||||||
19 | Class 2 felony and shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment | ||||||
20 | of not less than 3 years and not more than 7 years, unless the | ||||||
21 | weapon is possessed in the
passenger compartment of a motor | ||||||
22 | vehicle as defined in Section 1-146 of the
Illinois Vehicle | ||||||
23 | Code, or on the person, while the weapon is loaded, in which
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24 | case it shall be a Class X felony. A person convicted of a
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25 | second or subsequent violation of subsection 24-1(a)(4), | ||||||
26 | 24-1(a)(8),
24-1(a)(9), or
24-1(a)(10) commits a Class 3 |
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1 | felony. The possession of each weapon in violation of this | ||||||
2 | Section constitutes a single and separate violation.
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3 | (c) Violations in specific places.
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4 | (1) A person who violates subsection 24-1(a)(6) or | ||||||
5 | 24-1(a)(7) in any
school, regardless of the time of day or | ||||||
6 | the time of year, in residential
property owned, operated | ||||||
7 | or managed by a public housing agency or
leased by
a public | ||||||
8 | housing agency as part of a scattered site or mixed-income
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9 | development, in a
public park, in a courthouse, on the real | ||||||
10 | property comprising any school,
regardless of the
time of | ||||||
11 | day or the time of year, on residential property owned, | ||||||
12 | operated
or
managed by a public housing agency
or leased by | ||||||
13 | a public housing agency as part of a scattered site or
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14 | mixed-income development,
on the real property comprising | ||||||
15 | any
public park, on the real property comprising any | ||||||
16 | courthouse, in any conveyance
owned, leased or contracted | ||||||
17 | by a school to
transport students to or from school or a | ||||||
18 | school related activity, in any conveyance
owned, leased, | ||||||
19 | or contracted by a public transportation agency, or on any
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20 | public way within 1,000 feet of the real property | ||||||
21 | comprising any school,
public park, courthouse, public | ||||||
22 | transportation facility, or residential property owned, | ||||||
23 | operated, or managed
by a public housing agency
or leased | ||||||
24 | by a public housing agency as part of a scattered site or
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25 | mixed-income development
commits a Class 2 felony and shall | ||||||
26 | be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than 3 |
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1 | years and not more than 7 years.
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2 | (1.5) A person who violates subsection 24-1(a)(4), | ||||||
3 | 24-1(a)(9), or
24-1(a)(10) in any school, regardless of the | ||||||
4 | time of day or the time of year,
in residential property | ||||||
5 | owned, operated, or managed by a public
housing
agency
or | ||||||
6 | leased by a public housing agency as part of a scattered | ||||||
7 | site or
mixed-income development,
in
a public
park, in a | ||||||
8 | courthouse, on the real property comprising any school, | ||||||
9 | regardless
of the time of day or the time of year, on | ||||||
10 | residential property owned,
operated, or managed by a | ||||||
11 | public housing agency
or leased by a public housing agency | ||||||
12 | as part of a scattered site or
mixed-income development,
on | ||||||
13 | the real property
comprising any public park, on the real | ||||||
14 | property comprising any courthouse, in
any conveyance | ||||||
15 | owned, leased, or contracted by a school to transport | ||||||
16 | students
to or from school or a school related activity, in | ||||||
17 | any conveyance
owned, leased, or contracted by a public | ||||||
18 | transportation agency, or on any public way within
1,000 | ||||||
19 | feet of the real property comprising any school, public | ||||||
20 | park, courthouse,
public transportation facility, or | ||||||
21 | residential property owned, operated, or managed by a | ||||||
22 | public
housing agency
or leased by a public housing agency | ||||||
23 | as part of a scattered site or
mixed-income development
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24 | commits a Class 3 felony.
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25 | (2) A person who violates subsection 24-1(a)(1), | ||||||
26 | 24-1(a)(2), or
24-1(a)(3)
in any school, regardless of the |
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1 | time of day or the time of year, in
residential property | ||||||
2 | owned, operated or managed by a public housing
agency
or | ||||||
3 | leased by a public housing agency as part of a scattered | ||||||
4 | site or
mixed-income development,
in
a public park, in a | ||||||
5 | courthouse, on the real property comprising any school,
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6 | regardless of the time of day or the time of year, on | ||||||
7 | residential property
owned, operated or managed by a public | ||||||
8 | housing agency
or leased by a public housing agency as part | ||||||
9 | of a scattered site or
mixed-income development,
on the | ||||||
10 | real property
comprising any public park, on the real | ||||||
11 | property comprising any courthouse, in
any conveyance | ||||||
12 | owned, leased or contracted by a school to transport | ||||||
13 | students
to or from school or a school related activity, in | ||||||
14 | any conveyance
owned, leased, or contracted by a public | ||||||
15 | transportation agency, or on any public way within
1,000 | ||||||
16 | feet of the real property comprising any school, public | ||||||
17 | park, courthouse,
public transportation facility, or | ||||||
18 | residential property owned, operated, or managed by a | ||||||
19 | public
housing agency or leased by a public housing agency | ||||||
20 | as part of a scattered
site or mixed-income development | ||||||
21 | commits a Class 4 felony. "Courthouse"
means any building | ||||||
22 | that is used by the Circuit, Appellate, or Supreme Court of
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23 | this State for the conduct of official business.
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24 | (3) Paragraphs (1), (1.5), and (2) of this subsection | ||||||
25 | (c) shall not
apply to law
enforcement officers or security | ||||||
26 | officers of such school, college, or
university or to |
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1 | students carrying or possessing firearms for use in | ||||||
2 | training
courses, parades, hunting, target shooting on | ||||||
3 | school ranges, or otherwise with
the consent of school | ||||||
4 | authorities and which firearms are transported unloaded
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5 | enclosed in a suitable case, box, or transportation | ||||||
6 | package.
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7 | (4) For the purposes of this subsection (c), "school" | ||||||
8 | means any public or
private elementary or secondary school, | ||||||
9 | community college, college, or
university.
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10 | (5) For the purposes of this subsection (c), "public | ||||||
11 | transportation agency" means a public or private agency | ||||||
12 | that provides for the transportation or conveyance of
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13 | persons by means available to the general public, except | ||||||
14 | for transportation
by automobiles not used for conveyance | ||||||
15 | of the general public as passengers; and "public | ||||||
16 | transportation facility" means a terminal or other place
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17 | where one may obtain public transportation.
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18 | (d) The presence in an automobile other than a public | ||||||
19 | omnibus of any
weapon, instrument or substance referred to in | ||||||
20 | subsection (a)(7) is
prima facie evidence that it is in the | ||||||
21 | possession of, and is being
carried by, all persons occupying | ||||||
22 | such automobile at the time such
weapon, instrument or | ||||||
23 | substance is found, except under the following
circumstances: | ||||||
24 | (i) if such weapon, instrument or instrumentality is
found upon | ||||||
25 | the person of one of the occupants therein; or (ii) if such
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26 | weapon, instrument or substance is found in an automobile |
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1 | operated for
hire by a duly licensed driver in the due, lawful | ||||||
2 | and proper pursuit of
his or her trade, then such presumption | ||||||
3 | shall not apply to the driver.
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4 | (e) Exemptions. Crossbows, Common or Compound bows and | ||||||
5 | Underwater
Spearguns are exempted from the definition of | ||||||
6 | ballistic knife as defined in
paragraph (1) of subsection (a) | ||||||
7 | of this Section.
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8 | (Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07; 95-809, eff. 1-1-09; | ||||||
9 | 95-885, eff. 1-1-09; 96-41, eff. 1-1-10; 96-328, eff. 8-11-09; | ||||||
10 | 96-742, eff. 8-25-09; 96-1000, eff. 7-2-10.)
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11 | (720 ILCS 5/24-1.6) | ||||||
12 | Sec. 24-1.6. Aggravated unlawful use of a weapon. | ||||||
13 | (a) A person commits the offense of aggravated unlawful use | ||||||
14 | of a weapon when
he or she knowingly: | ||||||
15 | (1) Carries openly on or about his or her person or in | ||||||
16 | any vehicle , any pistol, revolver, stun gun, taser, or | ||||||
17 | other firearm, or concealed
on or about his or her person | ||||||
18 | except when on his or her land or in his or her
abode, | ||||||
19 | legal dwelling, or fixed place of business, or on the land | ||||||
20 | or in the legal dwelling of another person as an invitee | ||||||
21 | with that person's permission , any pistol, revolver, stun | ||||||
22 | gun or taser or
other firearm ; or | ||||||
23 | (2) Carries or possesses openly on or about his or her | ||||||
24 | person, upon any public
street, alley, or other public | ||||||
25 | lands within the corporate limits of a city,
village or |
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1 | incorporated town any pistol, revolver, stun gun, taser, or | ||||||
2 | other firearm , except when an invitee thereon or therein, | ||||||
3 | for
the purpose of the display of the such weapon or the | ||||||
4 | lawful commerce in weapons, or
except when on his or her | ||||||
5 | own land or in his or her own abode, legal dwelling, or | ||||||
6 | fixed place of
business, or on the land or in the legal | ||||||
7 | dwelling of another person as an invitee with that person's | ||||||
8 | permission , any pistol, revolver, stun gun or taser or | ||||||
9 | other firearm ; and | ||||||
10 | (3) One of the following factors is present: | ||||||
11 | (A) the firearm possessed was uncased, loaded and | ||||||
12 | immediately accessible
at the time of the offense and | ||||||
13 | the person possessing the firearm has not been issued a | ||||||
14 | currently valid Firearm Owner's Identification Card or | ||||||
15 | has been issued a currently valid Firearm Owner's | ||||||
16 | Identification Card and is under 21 years of age ; or | ||||||
17 | (B) the firearm possessed was uncased, unloaded | ||||||
18 | and the ammunition for
the weapon was immediately | ||||||
19 | accessible at the time of the offense and the person | ||||||
20 | possessing the firearm has not been issued a currently | ||||||
21 | valid Firearm Owner's Identification Card or has been | ||||||
22 | issued a currently valid Firearm Owner's | ||||||
23 | Identification Card and is under 21 years of age ; or | ||||||
24 | (C) the person possessing the firearm has not been | ||||||
25 | issued a currently
valid Firearm Owner's | ||||||
26 | Identification Card; or |
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1 | (D) the person possessing the weapon was | ||||||
2 | previously adjudicated
a delinquent minor under the | ||||||
3 | Juvenile Court Act of 1987 for an act that if
committed | ||||||
4 | by an adult would be a felony; or | ||||||
5 | (E) the person possessing the weapon was engaged in | ||||||
6 | a misdemeanor
violation of the Cannabis
Control Act, in | ||||||
7 | a misdemeanor violation of the Illinois Controlled | ||||||
8 | Substances
Act, or in a misdemeanor violation of the | ||||||
9 | Methamphetamine Control and Community Protection Act; | ||||||
10 | or | ||||||
11 | (F) (blank); or | ||||||
12 | (G) the person possessing the weapon had a order of | ||||||
13 | protection issued
against him or her within the | ||||||
14 | previous 2 years; or | ||||||
15 | (H) the person possessing the weapon was engaged in | ||||||
16 | the commission or
attempted commission of
a | ||||||
17 | misdemeanor involving the use or threat of violence | ||||||
18 | against
the person or property of another; or | ||||||
19 | (I) the person possessing the weapon was under 21 | ||||||
20 | years of age and in
possession of a handgun as defined | ||||||
21 | in Section 24-3, unless the person under 21
is engaged | ||||||
22 | in lawful activities under the Wildlife Code or | ||||||
23 | described in
subsection 24-2(b)(1), (b)(3), or | ||||||
24 | 24-2(f). | ||||||
25 | (b) "Stun gun or taser" as used in this Section has the | ||||||
26 | same definition
given to it in Section 24-1 of this Code. |
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1 | (c) This Section does not apply to or affect the | ||||||
2 | transportation or
possession
of weapons that: | ||||||
3 | (i) are broken down in a non-functioning state; or | ||||||
4 | (ii) are not immediately accessible; or | ||||||
5 | (iii) are unloaded and enclosed in a case, firearm | ||||||
6 | carrying box,
shipping box, or other container by a | ||||||
7 | person who has been issued a currently
valid Firearm | ||||||
8 | Owner's
Identification Card. | ||||||
9 | (d) Sentence. | ||||||
10 | (1) Aggravated unlawful use of a weapon is a Class 4 | ||||||
11 | felony;
a second or subsequent offense is a Class 2 felony | ||||||
12 | for which the person shall be sentenced to a term of | ||||||
13 | imprisonment of not less than 3 years and not more than 7 | ||||||
14 | years. | ||||||
15 | (2) Except as otherwise provided in paragraphs (3) and | ||||||
16 | (4) of this subsection (d), a first offense of aggravated | ||||||
17 | unlawful use of a weapon committed with a firearm by a | ||||||
18 | person 18 years of age or older where the factors listed in | ||||||
19 | both items (A) and (C) of paragraph (3) of subsection (a) | ||||||
20 | are present is a Class 4 felony, for which the person shall | ||||||
21 | be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than one | ||||||
22 | year and not more than 3 years. | ||||||
23 | (3) Aggravated unlawful use of
a weapon by a person who | ||||||
24 | has been previously
convicted of a felony in this State or | ||||||
25 | another jurisdiction is a Class 2
felony for which the | ||||||
26 | person shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not |
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1 | less than 3 years and not more than 7 years. | ||||||
2 | (4) Aggravated unlawful use of a weapon while wearing | ||||||
3 | or in possession of body armor as defined in Section 33F-1 | ||||||
4 | by a person who has not been issued a valid Firearms | ||||||
5 | Owner's Identification Card in accordance with Section 5 of | ||||||
6 | the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act is a Class X | ||||||
7 | felony.
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8 | (e) The possession of each firearm in violation of this | ||||||
9 | Section constitutes a single and separate violation. | ||||||
10 | (Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07; 96-742, eff. 8-25-09; | ||||||
11 | 96-829, eff. 12-3-09; 96-1107, eff. 1-1-11.)
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12 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
13 | becoming law.
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