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720 ILCS 5/24.8-1

    (720 ILCS 5/24.8-1)
    Sec. 24.8-1. Selling, renting, or transferring air rifles to children.

(a) A dealer commits selling, renting, or transferring air rifles to children when he or she sells, lends, rents, gives or
otherwise transfers an air rifle to any person under the age of 13 years
where the dealer knows or has cause to believe the person to be under 13
years of age or where the dealer has failed to make reasonable inquiry
relative to the age of the person and the person is under 13 years of
age.

(b) A person commits selling, renting, or transferring air rifles to children when he or she sells, gives, lends, or otherwise transfers
any air rifle to any person under 13 years of age except where the
relationship of parent and child, guardian and ward or adult instructor and
pupil, exists between this person and the person under 13 years of age, or
where the person stands in loco parentis to the person under 13 years of
age.

(Source: P.A. 97-1108, eff. 1-1-13.)