Firearm Bills Pending in the Illinois State Legislature

Illinois General Assembly ^ | March 1, 2003 | Self

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Illinois State Legislature
Firearm Related Bills -- 93rd Session

Bill Number	Synopsis	Recommendation
HB1377	Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that it is a Class A misdemeanor for a first offense and a Class 4 felony for a second or subsequent offense to sell or give a firearm while engaged in the business of selling firearms at wholesale or retail without being licensed as a federal firearms dealer under the federal Gun Control Act of 1968. Effective immediately.
HB1379	Amends the Illinois Police Training Act and the Criminal Code of 1961. Exempts from provisions prohibiting the carrying of a firearm concealed on one's person or in a vehicle, retired peace officers who present certified documentation of their retired peace officer status to the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board.	OPPOSE
HB2532	Creates the Firearms Dealer Licensing Act. Requires a person who engages in the business of selling or transferring firearms to be licensed by the Department of State Police. Establishes qualifications for licenses. Provides that it is a Class 4 felony to engage in the business of selling or transferring firearms without a license. Requires a licensed firearms dealer who sells or transfers a firearm to a person who is not a licensed dealer to report that sale or transfer to the Department of State Police.	OPPOSE
HB2632	Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Prohibits the knowing manufacture, delivery, and possession of semiautomatic assault weapons, large capacity ammunition feeding devices, and assault weapon attachments. Provides for an affirmative defense to a violation for peace officers, correctional institution employees and officers, members of the Armed Services and Reserve Forces of the United States, and the Illinois National Guard while these persons are in the performance of their duties. Establishes penalties for violations.	OPPOSE
HB2821	Creates the Family and Personal Protection Act. Establishes statewide uniform standards for the issuance of permits to carry concealed firearms in this State. Vests in the Department of State Police, the authority to issue concealed firearms permits to qualified applicants. Requires an applicant to complete a training course in handgun use, safety, and marksmanship. Also requires instruction in the law relating to firearm use. Requires an applicant to be at least 21 years of age. Prohibits an applicant who has been convicted of a felony or has a history of mental illness, addiction, or habitual alcohol use from obtaining a permit. Creates the Citizen Safety and Self-Defense Trust Fund administered by the Department. The moneys in the Fund shall be used to administer the Act. Establishes restrictions on carrying concealed firearms. Establishes standards for the training course and for certifying instructors. Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Provides that the Family and Personal Protection Act supersedes an ordinance of a unit of local government inconsistent with that Act. Prohibits a home rule unit from regulating the issuance of permits to carry concealed firearms. Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Exempts from an unlawful use of weapons and aggravated unlawful use of weapons violation, persons who carry or possess firearms in accordance with the Family and Personal Protection Act. Effective immediately.	SUPPORT
HB3631	Creates the Local Government Firearm Regulation Preemption Act and amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Provides that a person who possesses, transports, stores, purchases, sells, or otherwise deals in firearms, ammunition, components, accessories, and accoutrements in compliance with U.S. and State law is entitled to possess, transport, store, purchase, sell, and otherwise deal in these items throughout this State. Preempts units of local government, including home rule units, from regulating firearms, ammunition, components, accessories, or accoutrements, except as provided in the Local Government Firearm Regulation Preemption Act. Effective immediately.	SUPPORT
SB0238	Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Prohibits the transfer or possession with intent to transfer of more than one handgun during a 30-day period. Creates a handgun database maintained by the Department of State Police that may be accessed by law enforcement officers to determine whether a person purchased more than one handgun within a 30-day period.	OPPOSE
SB0474	Amends the Illinois Police Training Act and the Criminal Code of 1961. Exempts retired peace officers from certain provisions of the unlawful use of weapons offense. Provides that the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board shall give a proficiency course to persons seeking to become exempt and shall issue identification cards indicating successful completion of the course. Authorizes the Board to charge a fee.	OPPOSE
SB0686	Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that that the statute that prohibits a person from possessing a device or attachment of any kind designed, used, or intended for use in silencing the report of any firearm and that prohibits the possession of a sawed-off rifle or shotgun, machine gun, and of certain bombs does not apply to a business entity that designs, develops, and manufactures ammunition and uses that device, attachment or weapon solely for the purpose of testing the ammunition for legitimate business purposes. Provides that the Department of State Police, upon proper determination, shall issue a certificate of exemption from the unlawful use of weapons provisions. Effective immediately.
SB1195	Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Prohibits the knowing manufacture, delivery, and possession of semiautomatic assault weapons, large capacity ammunition feeding devices, and assault weapon attachments. Provides for an affirmative defense to a violation for peace officers, correctional institution employees and officers, members of the Armed Services and Reserve Forces of the United States, and the Illinois National Guard while these persons are in the performance of their duties. Establishes penalties for violations.	OPPOSE
SB1206	Creates the Firearms Dealer Licensing Act. Requires a person who engages in the business of selling or transferring firearms to be licensed by the Department of State Police. Establishes qualifications for licenses. Provides that it is a Class 4 felony to engage in the business of selling or transferring firearms without a license. Requires a licensed firearms dealer who sells or transfers a firearm to a person who is not a licensed dealer to report that sale or transfer to the Department of State Police.	OPPOSE
SB1326	Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that the knowing delivery of a firearm that may be concealed upon the person, incidental to a sale, without withholding delivery of the firearm for at least 10 days (now 72 hours) after application for its purchase has been made is an unlawful sale of firearms.	OPPOSE
SB1481	Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Changes references in the statute on unlawful sale of firearms from "sell" or "give" to "transfer". Prohibits multiple sales of handguns within a 30-day period. Creates the offense of unlawful acquisition of handguns. Provides exemptions and affirmative defenses. Penalty is a Class A misdemeanor for a first offense and a Class 4 felony for a second or subsequent offense.	OPPOSE

Last updated March 1, 2003

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Stalinist Antigun Demoncrat Blagojevich will never sign the concealed-carry and preemption bills, and will push like h*ll for all the others. The state of my birth is not a fit place in which to live.

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You need an asterisk before "bang-list".

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Thanks -- I wondered why my posting wasn't coming up!

I discovered a few wholes in my list of pending bills.  Here is an updated list:  www.illinois-safety.net/93rd_session.html

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wholes = holes