Bill Text: IL HB2849 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Firearm Concealed Carry Act. Includes a stun gun or taser in the definition of "handgun".

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Failed) 2025-01-07 - Session Sine Die [HB2849 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB2849-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB2849 Introduced , by Rep. Dave Severin SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
430 ILCS 66/5
Amends the Firearm Concealed Carry Act. Includes a stun gun or taser in the definition of "handgun".
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning safety.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Firearm Concealed Carry Act is amended by
changing Section 5 as follows:
(430 ILCS 66/5)
Sec. 5. Definitions. As used in this Act:
"Applicant" means a person who is applying for a license
to carry a concealed firearm under this Act.
"Board" means the Concealed Carry Licensing Review Board.
"Concealed firearm" means a loaded or unloaded handgun
carried on or about a person completely or mostly concealed
from view of the public or on or about a person within a
vehicle.
"Director" means the Director of the Illinois State
Police.
"Handgun" means any device which is designed to expel a
projectile or projectiles by the action of an explosion,
expansion of gas, or escape of gas that is designed to be held
and fired by the use of a single hand. "Handgun" includes a
stun gun or taser. "Handgun" does not include:
(1) (blank); a stun gun or taser;
(2) a machine gun as defined in item (i) of paragraph

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(7) of subsection (a) of Section 24-1 of the Criminal Code
of 2012;
(3) a short-barreled rifle or shotgun as defined in
item (ii) of paragraph (7) of subsection (a) of Section
24-1 of the Criminal Code of 2012; or
(4) any pneumatic gun, spring gun, paint ball gun, or
B-B gun which expels a single globular projectile not
exceeding .18 inch in diameter, or which has a maximum
muzzle velocity of less than 700 feet per second, or which
expels breakable paint balls containing washable marking
colors.
"Law enforcement agency" means any federal, State, or
local law enforcement agency, including offices of State's
Attorneys and the Office of the Attorney General.
"License" means a license issued by the Illinois State
Police to carry a concealed handgun.
"Licensee" means a person issued a license to carry a
concealed handgun.
"Municipality" has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 1
of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution.
"Unit of local government" has the meaning ascribed to it
in Section 1 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution.
(Source: P.A. 102-538, eff. 8-20-21.)