Sen. Kwame Raoul

Filed: 4/17/2018

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2343

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2343 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by
5changing Section 24-1 as follows:
 
6    (720 ILCS 5/24-1)  (from Ch. 38, par. 24-1)
7    Sec. 24-1. Unlawful use of weapons.
8    (a) A person commits the offense of unlawful use of weapons
9when he knowingly:
10        (1) Sells, manufactures, purchases, possesses or
11    carries any bludgeon, black-jack, slung-shot, sand-club,
12    sand-bag, metal knuckles or other knuckle weapon
13    regardless of its composition, throwing star, or any knife,
14    commonly referred to as a switchblade knife, which has a
15    blade that opens automatically by hand pressure applied to
16    a button, spring or other device in the handle of the

 

 

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1    knife, or a ballistic knife, which is a device that propels
2    a knifelike blade as a projectile by means of a coil
3    spring, elastic material or compressed gas; or
4        (2) Carries or possesses with intent to use the same
5    unlawfully against another, a dagger, dirk, billy,
6    dangerous knife, razor, stiletto, broken bottle or other
7    piece of glass, stun gun or taser or any other dangerous or
8    deadly weapon or instrument of like character; or
9        (3) Carries on or about his person or in any vehicle, a
10    tear gas gun projector or bomb or any object containing
11    noxious liquid gas or substance, other than an object
12    containing a non-lethal noxious liquid gas or substance
13    designed solely for personal defense carried by a person 18
14    years of age or older; or
15        (4) Carries or possesses in any vehicle or concealed on
16    or about his person except when on his land or in his own
17    abode, legal dwelling, or fixed place of business, or on
18    the land or in the legal dwelling of another person as an
19    invitee with that person's permission, any pistol,
20    revolver, stun gun or taser or other firearm, except that
21    this subsection (a) (4) does not apply to or affect
22    transportation of weapons that meet one of the following
23    conditions:
24            (i) are broken down in a non-functioning state; or
25            (ii) are not immediately accessible; or
26            (iii) are unloaded and enclosed in a case, firearm

 

 

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1        carrying box, shipping box, or other container by a
2        person who has been issued a currently valid Firearm
3        Owner's Identification Card; or
4            (iv) are carried or possessed in accordance with
5        the Firearm Concealed Carry Act by a person who has
6        been issued a currently valid license under the Firearm
7        Concealed Carry Act; or
8        (5) Sets a spring gun; or
9        (6) Possesses any device or attachment of any kind
10    designed, used or intended for use in silencing the report
11    of any firearm; or
12        (7) Sells, manufactures, purchases, possesses or
13    carries:
14            (i) a machine gun, which shall be defined for the
15        purposes of this subsection as any weapon, which
16        shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily
17        restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot
18        without manually reloading by a single function of the
19        trigger, including the frame or receiver of any such
20        weapon, or sells, manufactures, purchases, possesses,
21        or carries any combination of parts designed or
22        intended for use in converting any weapon into a
23        machine gun, or any combination or parts from which a
24        machine gun can be assembled if such parts are in the
25        possession or under the control of a person;
26            (i-5) beginning 90 days after the effective date of

 

 

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1        this amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly, a
2        bump stock or trigger crank. As used in this clause
3        (i-5):
4                "Bump stock" means any device for a weapon that
5            increases the rate of fire achievable with the
6            weapon by using energy from the recoil of the
7            weapon to generate a reciprocating action that
8            facilitates repeated activation of the trigger of
9            the weapon.
10                "Trigger crank" means any device to be
11            attached to a weapon that repeatedly activates the
12            trigger of the weapon through the use of a lever or
13            other part that is turned in a circular motion;
14            (ii) any rifle having one or more barrels less than
15        16 inches in length or a shotgun having one or more
16        barrels less than 18 inches in length or any weapon
17        made from a rifle or shotgun, whether by alteration,
18        modification, or otherwise, if such a weapon as
19        modified has an overall length of less than 26 inches;
20        or
21            (iii) any bomb, bomb-shell, grenade, bottle or
22        other container containing an explosive substance of
23        over one-quarter ounce for like purposes, such as, but
24        not limited to, black powder bombs and Molotov
25        cocktails or artillery projectiles; or
26        (8) Carries or possesses any firearm, stun gun or taser

 

 

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1    or other deadly weapon in any place which is licensed to
2    sell intoxicating beverages, or at any public gathering
3    held pursuant to a license issued by any governmental body
4    or any public gathering at which an admission is charged,
5    excluding a place where a showing, demonstration or lecture
6    involving the exhibition of unloaded firearms is
7    conducted.
8        This subsection (a)(8) does not apply to any auction or
9    raffle of a firearm held pursuant to a license or permit
10    issued by a governmental body, nor does it apply to persons
11    engaged in firearm safety training courses; or
12        (9) Carries or possesses in a vehicle or on or about
13    his person any pistol, revolver, stun gun or taser or
14    firearm or ballistic knife, when he is hooded, robed or
15    masked in such manner as to conceal his identity; or
16        (10) Carries or possesses on or about his person, upon
17    any public street, alley, or other public lands within the
18    corporate limits of a city, village or incorporated town,
19    except when an invitee thereon or therein, for the purpose
20    of the display of such weapon or the lawful commerce in
21    weapons, or except when on his land or in his own abode,
22    legal dwelling, or fixed place of business, or on the land
23    or in the legal dwelling of another person as an invitee
24    with that person's permission, any pistol, revolver, stun
25    gun or taser or other firearm, except that this subsection
26    (a) (10) does not apply to or affect transportation of

 

 

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1    weapons that meet one of the following conditions:
2            (i) are broken down in a non-functioning state; or
3            (ii) are not immediately accessible; or
4            (iii) are unloaded and enclosed in a case, firearm
5        carrying box, shipping box, or other container by a
6        person who has been issued a currently valid Firearm
7        Owner's Identification Card; or
8            (iv) are carried or possessed in accordance with
9        the Firearm Concealed Carry Act by a person who has
10        been issued a currently valid license under the Firearm
11        Concealed Carry Act.
12        A "stun gun or taser", as used in this paragraph (a)
13    means (i) any device which is powered by electrical
14    charging units, such as, batteries, and which fires one or
15    several barbs attached to a length of wire and which, upon
16    hitting a human, can send out a current capable of
17    disrupting the person's nervous system in such a manner as
18    to render him incapable of normal functioning or (ii) any
19    device which is powered by electrical charging units, such
20    as batteries, and which, upon contact with a human or
21    clothing worn by a human, can send out current capable of
22    disrupting the person's nervous system in such a manner as
23    to render him incapable of normal functioning; or
24        (11) Sells, manufactures or purchases any explosive
25    bullet. For purposes of this paragraph (a) "explosive
26    bullet" means the projectile portion of an ammunition

 

 

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1    cartridge which contains or carries an explosive charge
2    which will explode upon contact with the flesh of a human
3    or an animal. "Cartridge" means a tubular metal case having
4    a projectile affixed at the front thereof and a cap or
5    primer at the rear end thereof, with the propellant
6    contained in such tube between the projectile and the cap;
7    or
8        (12) (Blank); or
9        (13) Carries or possesses on or about his or her person
10    while in a building occupied by a unit of government, a
11    billy club, other weapon of like character, or other
12    instrument of like character intended for use as a weapon.
13    For the purposes of this Section, "billy club" means a
14    short stick or club commonly carried by police officers
15    which is either telescopic or constructed of a solid piece
16    of wood or other man-made material.
17    (b) Sentence. A person convicted of a violation of
18subsection 24-1(a)(1) through (5), subsection 24-1(a)(10),
19subsection 24-1(a)(11), or subsection 24-1(a)(13) commits a
20Class A misdemeanor. A person convicted of a violation of
21subsection 24-1(a)(8) or 24-1(a)(9) commits a Class 4 felony; a
22person convicted of a violation of subsection 24-1(a)(6) or
2324-1(a)(7)(ii) or (iii) commits a Class 3 felony. A person
24convicted of a violation of subsection 24-1(a)(7)(i) or
2524-1(a)(7)(i-5) commits a Class 2 felony and shall be sentenced
26to a term of imprisonment of not less than 3 years and not more

 

 

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1than 7 years, unless the weapon or device is possessed in the
2passenger compartment of a motor vehicle as defined in Section
31-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, or on the person, while the
4weapon is loaded or the device is attached to the loaded
5weapon, in which case it shall be a Class X felony. A person
6convicted of a second or subsequent violation of subsection
724-1(a)(4), 24-1(a)(8), 24-1(a)(9), or 24-1(a)(10) commits a
8Class 3 felony. The possession of each weapon or device in
9violation of this Section constitutes a single and separate
10violation.
11    (c) Violations in specific places.
12        (1) A person who violates subsection 24-1(a)(6) or
13    24-1(a)(7) in any school, regardless of the time of day or
14    the time of year, in residential property owned, operated
15    or managed by a public housing agency or leased by a public
16    housing agency as part of a scattered site or mixed-income
17    development, in a public park, in a courthouse, on the real
18    property comprising any school, regardless of the time of
19    day or the time of year, on residential property owned,
20    operated or managed by a public housing agency or leased by
21    a public housing agency as part of a scattered site or
22    mixed-income development, on the real property comprising
23    any public park, on the real property comprising any
24    courthouse, in any conveyance owned, leased or contracted
25    by a school to transport students to or from school or a
26    school related activity, in any conveyance owned, leased,

 

 

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1    or contracted by a public transportation agency, or on any
2    public way within 1,000 feet of the real property
3    comprising any school, public park, courthouse, public
4    transportation facility, or residential property owned,
5    operated, or managed by a public housing agency or leased
6    by a public housing agency as part of a scattered site or
7    mixed-income development commits a Class 2 felony and shall
8    be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than 3
9    years and not more than 7 years.
10        (1.5) A person who violates subsection 24-1(a)(4),
11    24-1(a)(9), or 24-1(a)(10) in any school, regardless of the
12    time of day or the time of year, in residential property
13    owned, operated, or managed by a public housing agency or
14    leased by a public housing agency as part of a scattered
15    site or mixed-income development, in a public park, in a
16    courthouse, on the real property comprising any school,
17    regardless of the time of day or the time of year, on
18    residential property owned, operated, or managed by a
19    public housing agency or leased by a public housing agency
20    as part of a scattered site or mixed-income development, on
21    the real property comprising any public park, on the real
22    property comprising any courthouse, in any conveyance
23    owned, leased, or contracted by a school to transport
24    students to or from school or a school related activity, in
25    any conveyance owned, leased, or contracted by a public
26    transportation agency, or on any public way within 1,000

 

 

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1    feet of the real property comprising any school, public
2    park, courthouse, public transportation facility, or
3    residential property owned, operated, or managed by a
4    public housing agency or leased by a public housing agency
5    as part of a scattered site or mixed-income development
6    commits a Class 3 felony.
7        (2) A person who violates subsection 24-1(a)(1),
8    24-1(a)(2), or 24-1(a)(3) in any school, regardless of the
9    time of day or the time of year, in residential property
10    owned, operated or managed by a public housing agency or
11    leased by a public housing agency as part of a scattered
12    site or mixed-income development, in a public park, in a
13    courthouse, on the real property comprising any school,
14    regardless of the time of day or the time of year, on
15    residential property owned, operated or managed by a public
16    housing agency or leased by a public housing agency as part
17    of a scattered site or mixed-income development, on the
18    real property comprising any public park, on the real
19    property comprising any courthouse, in any conveyance
20    owned, leased or contracted by a school to transport
21    students to or from school or a school related activity, in
22    any conveyance owned, leased, or contracted by a public
23    transportation agency, or on any public way within 1,000
24    feet of the real property comprising any school, public
25    park, courthouse, public transportation facility, or
26    residential property owned, operated, or managed by a

 

 

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1    public housing agency or leased by a public housing agency
2    as part of a scattered site or mixed-income development
3    commits a Class 4 felony. "Courthouse" means any building
4    that is used by the Circuit, Appellate, or Supreme Court of
5    this State for the conduct of official business.
6        (3) Paragraphs (1), (1.5), and (2) of this subsection
7    (c) shall not apply to law enforcement officers or security
8    officers of such school, college, or university or to
9    students carrying or possessing firearms for use in
10    training courses, parades, hunting, target shooting on
11    school ranges, or otherwise with the consent of school
12    authorities and which firearms are transported unloaded
13    enclosed in a suitable case, box, or transportation
14    package.
15        (4) For the purposes of this subsection (c), "school"
16    means any public or private elementary or secondary school,
17    community college, college, or university.
18        (5) For the purposes of this subsection (c), "public
19    transportation agency" means a public or private agency
20    that provides for the transportation or conveyance of
21    persons by means available to the general public, except
22    for transportation by automobiles not used for conveyance
23    of the general public as passengers; and "public
24    transportation facility" means a terminal or other place
25    where one may obtain public transportation.
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1omnibus of any weapon, instrument or substance referred to in
2subsection (a)(7) is prima facie evidence that it is in the
3possession of, and is being carried by, all persons occupying
4such automobile at the time such weapon, instrument or
5substance is found, except under the following circumstances:
6(i) if such weapon, instrument or instrumentality is found upon
7the person of one of the occupants therein; or (ii) if such
8weapon, instrument or substance is found in an automobile
9operated for hire by a duly licensed driver in the due, lawful
10and proper pursuit of his trade, then such presumption shall
11not apply to the driver.
12    (e) Exemptions.
13        (1) Crossbows, Common or Compound bows and Underwater
14    Spearguns are exempted from the definition of ballistic
15    knife as defined in paragraph (1) of subsection (a) of this
16    Section.
17        (2) The provision of paragraph (1) of subsection (a) of
18    this Section prohibiting the sale, manufacture, purchase,
19    possession, or carrying of any knife, commonly referred to
20    as a switchblade knife, which has a blade that opens
21    automatically by hand pressure applied to a button, spring
22    or other device in the handle of the knife, does not apply
23    to a person who possesses a currently valid Firearm Owner's
24    Identification Card previously issued in his or her name by
25    the Department of State Police or to a person or an entity
26    engaged in the business of selling or manufacturing

 

 

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1    switchblade knives.
2(Source: P.A. 99-29, eff. 7-10-15; 100-82, eff. 8-11-17.)
 
3    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
4becoming law.".