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                                     LRB093 02912 RLC 15003 a

 1                    AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 947

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend Senate Bill 947  by  replacing
 3    the title with the following:
 4        "AN ACT in relation to firearms."; and

 5    by  replacing  everything  after the enacting clause with the
 6    following:

 7        "Section 5.  The Firearm Owners Identification  Card  Act
 8    is amended by adding Section 3.5 as follows:

 9        (430 ILCS 65/3.5 new)
10        Sec.  3.5.  Private  transfers  of  firearms  by  persons
11    attending gun shows.
12        (a)  Any  person  who is not a federally licensed firearm
13    dealer who desires to transfer a firearm while that person is
14    on the grounds of a gun  show  must  do  so  only  through  a
15    federally  licensed  firearm  dealer.  The dealer must follow
16    the procedure set forth in Section 3.1 of this Act as if  the
17    dealer were the seller of the firearm.
18        (b)  In this Act:
19        "Gun  show"  means  the  entire  premises provided for an
20    event or function, including but not limited to parking areas
21    for the event or function, that is sponsored  to  facilitate,
 
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 1    in  whole  or in part, the purchase, sale, offer for sale, or
 2    collection of firearms at which:
 3             (1)  25 or more firearms are  offered  or  exhibited
 4        for sale, transfer, or exchange; or
 5             (2)  not less than 3 gun show vendors exhibit, sell,
 6        offer for sale, transfer, or exchange firearms.
 7        "Gun  show  promoter"  means  a  person  who organizes or
 8    operates a gun show.
 9        "Gun show vendor" means any person who  exhibits,  sells,
10    offers  for  sale, transfers, or exchanges, any firearms at a
11    gun show, regardless of whether the person  arranges  with  a
12    gun show promoter for a fixed location from which to exhibit,
13    sell, offer for sale, transfer, or exchange any firearm.
14        (c)  The  Department of State Police shall adopt rules to
15    carry out the provisions of this Section.".