(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly:

(1) Sell, manufacture, purchase, possess or carry any bludgeon,
blackjack, slingshot, sand-club, sand bag, metal knuckles or any knife,
commonly referred to as a switchblade knife, which has a blade that
opens automatically by hand pressure applied to a button, spring or
other device in the handle of the knife; or

(2) Carry or possess with intent to use the same unlawfully against
another, a dagger, dirk, billy, dangerous knife, razor, stiletto, broken
bottle or other piece of glass, stun gun or taser or any other
dangerous or deadly weapon or instrument of like character; or

(3) Carry on or about his person or in any vehicle, a tear gas gun
projector or bomb or any object containing noxious liquid gas or
substance; or

(4) Carry concealed in any vehicle or concealed on or about his person
except when on his land or in his own abode or fixed place of business
any pistol, revolver, stun gun or taser or other firearm; or

(5) Set a spring gun; or

(6) Possess any device or attachment of any kind designed, used or intended for use in silencing the report of any firearm; or

(7) Carry or possess any firearm, stun gun
or taser or other deadly weapon in any place which is licensed to sell
intoxicating beverages, or at any public gathering held pursuant to a
license issued by any governmental body or any public gathering at which
an admission is charged excluding a place where a showing,
demonstration or lecture involving the exhibition of unloaded firearms is conducted; or

(8) Carry or possess in a vehicle or on or about his person within the
corporate limits of the village, except when on his land or in his own
abode or fixed placed of business, any loaded pistol, revolver, stun gun
or taser or other firearm.

A "stun gun or taser", as used in this division (A), means any device
which is powered by electrical charging units, such as batteries and
which fires one or several barbs attached
to a length of wire and which, upon hitting a human, can send out
current capable of disrupting the person's nervous system in such a
manner as to render him incapable of normal functioning.

(B) Divisions (A)(3), (A)(4) and (A)(8) do not apply to or affect any of the following:

(1) Peace officers or any person summoned by any such officers to assist
in making arrests or preserving the peace while he is actually engaged
in assisting such officer;

(2) Warden, superintendents and keepers of prisons, penitentiaries,
jails, and other institutions for the detention of persons accused or
convicted of an offense, while in the performance of their official
duty, or while commuting between their homes and place of employment;

(3) Members of the Armed Services or Reserve Forces of the United States
or the Illinois National Guard or the Reserve Officers Training Corps,
while in the performance of their official duty;

(4) Special agents employed by a railroad or a public utility to perform
police functions or guards of armored car companies while actually
engaged in the performance of the duties of their employment or
commuting between their homes and places of employment; watchmen while
actually engaged in the performance of the duties of their employment;
security guards while actually engaged in the performance of the duties
of their employment or commuting between their homes and places of
employment, provided that such commuting is accomplished within one hour
from departure from home or place of employment, as the case may be.
For the purposes of this section, security guards means persons employed
by a licensed detective agency as defined by "An Act to Provide for
Licensing and Regulating Detectives and Detective Agencies", approved
June 26, 1933, as amended, who are so employed for any of the purposes
enumerated in Section 1(B) of such Act and any person regularly employed
in a commercial or industrial operation for the protection of persons
employed and private property related to such commercial or industrial
operation while actually engaged in the performance of their duty or
traveling between sites or properties belonging to the employer of such
security guards, and who, as such security guards are members of a
security force of 30 persons or more registered with the state
department of registration and education, provided, that such security
guard has successfully completed a course of study, approved by and
supervised by the state department of registration and education,
consisting of not less than 30 hours of training which shall include
theory of law enforcement, liability for acts and the handling of
weapons. The state department of registration and education shall
provide suitable documentation to demonstrate the successful completion
of such course. Such documentation shall be carried by the security
guard at all times when he is in possession of a concealable weapon;

(5) Agents and investigators of the state legislative investigating
commission authorized by the commission to carry the weapons specified
in divisions (A)(3) and (A)(4), while on duty in the course of any
investigation for the commission;

(6) Manufacture, transportation, or sale of weapons to persons
authorized under (1) through (5) of division (B) to possess those
weapons.

(C) Divisions (A)(4) and (A)(8) do not apply to or affect any of the following:

(1) Members of any club or organization organized for the purpose of
practicing shooting at targets upon established target ranges, whether
public or private, patrons of such ranges while such members or patrons
are using their firearms on those target ranges;

(2) Duly authorized military or civil organizations while parading, with the special permission of the governor;

(3) Licensed hunters or fishermen while engaged in hunting or fishing;

(4) Transportation of weapons broken down in a nonfunctioning state or not immediately accessible.

(D) Division (A)(1) does not apply to the purchase, possession or carrying of a black-jack or sling-shot by a peace officer.

(E) Division (A)(7) does not apply to any owner, manager or authorized
employee of any place specified in that division nor to any law
enforcement officer.

(F) Division (A)(8) does not apply to members of any club or
organization organized for the purpose of practicing shooting at targets
upon established target ranges, whether public or private, while using
their firearms on those target ranges.

It shall be unlawful for any person to purchase any deadly weapon mentioned in this chapter without first securing a Firearm Owner's Identification Card from the Department of Law Enforcement of the state.


('68 Code, § 41.07) (Am. Ord. 80-4-428, passed 4-14-80) Penalty, see § 116.999

The annual fee for a gunsmith's license is $50, but a person licensed
under Chapter 110 is not required to pay the additional fee for engaging
in the business of repairing firearms, but shall make the additional report required by this subchapter.


('68 Code, §§ 41.09-41.11) (Am. Ord. 80-4-428, passed 4-14-80)

Every person licensed as a gunsmith shall make out and submit to the
Village Police Chief on the first day of each month a legible and
correct report of each firearm received for
repair during the preceding month, which report shall contain the date,
name, physical description, age, address and occupation of the owner of
the firearm, the type of weapon, its make, serial number and bore and length of the weapon.


('68 Code, § 41.12)

No licensees shall sell or give away any weapon to any person who is
under the age of 13. In addition, no licensee shall sell or give away
any weapon to any person who has not secured a permit from the Village
Police Chief to purchase the weapon in the manner herein provided.


('68 Code, §§ 41.13-41.17) (Am. Ord. 73-0-226, passed 4-18-73; 80-4-428, passed 4-14-80)

Every person licensed under this subchapter shall make out and deliver
to the Village Police Chief on the first day of each month a legible and
correct report of every sale or gift made under authority of the
license to sell the kind of weapon or other articles named in this
subchapter during the preceding month, which report shall contain the
date of the sale or gift, the name of the purchaser or donee, his
address and age, the number, kind, description and price of the weapon
or other article, the number of the purchaser's permit and the purpose
of the purchase of the weapon or other article.


('68 Code, § 41.18)