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90_SB1872
720 ILCS 5/24-8
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that the
local law enforcement agency shall use the best available
information, including a firearms trace, to determine how and
from whom a person who is not permitted by federal or State
law to possess a firearm gained possession of a firearm (now
the provision applies only when the law enforcement agency
recovers the firearm from a person under 21 years of age).
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1 AN ACT to amend the Criminal Code of 1961 by changing
2 Section 24-8.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by
6 changing Section 24-8 as follows:
7 (720 ILCS 5/24-8)
8 Sec. 24-8. Firearm tracing.
9 (a) Upon recovering a firearm from the possession of
10 anyone under 21 years of age who is not permitted by federal
11 or State law to possess a firearm, a local law enforcement
12 agency shall use the best available information, including a
13 firearms trace when where necessary, to determine how and
14 from whom where the person under 21 years of age gained
15 possession of the firearm.
16 (b) Local law enforcement shall, when appropriate, use
17 the National Tracing Center of the Federal Bureau of Alcohol,
18 Tobacco and Firearms in complying with subsection (a) of this
19 Section.
20 (c) Local law enforcement agencies shall use the
21 Illinois Department of State Police Law Enforcement Agencies
22 Data System (LEADS) Gun File to enter all stolen, seized, or
23 recovered firearms as prescribed by LEADS regulations and
24 policies.
25 (Source: P.A. 90-137, eff. 1-1-98.)