DART. 720 ILCS 5/24-1 from Ch. 38, par. 24-1 730 ILCS 5/5-5-3 from Ch. 38, par. 1005-5-3 Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Increases the penalties for the sale, manufacture, purchase, possessing, or carrying of sawed-off rifles or sawed-off shotguns, bombs, molotov cocktails, or certain explosives from a Class 3 to a Class 2 felony. If the offense is committed in, on, or on a public way of schools, public housing, courthouses, or public parks it is a Class 1 felony. Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that a person convicted of unlawful use of weapons by possessing a silencer or certain other weapons (sawed off shotguns, sawed off rifles, machine guns, or certain explosives) is not eligible for probation, conditional discharge, or periodic imprisonment. Effective immediately. 97-03-10 H FIRST READING 97-03-10 H REFERRED TO HOUSE RULES COMMITTEE RULES 97-03-11 H ASSIGNED TO COMMITTEE JUD-CRIMINAL 97-03-21 H RE-REFERRED TO RULES COMM/RULE 19(A) RULES HRUL 99-01-12 H SESSION SINE DIE END OF INQUIRY Full Text Bill Summary