House Sponsors: DART. Short description: CD CORR-SILENCERS-NO PROBATION Synopsis of Bill as introduced: 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. Last action on Bill: SESSION SINE DIE Last action date: 99-01-12 Location: House Amendments to Bill: AMENDMENTS ADOPTED: HOUSE - 0 SENATE - 0 END OF INQUIRY Full Text Bill Status