99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
HB3279

Introduced , by Rep. Michael Unes

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
720 ILCS 5/24-3 from Ch. 38, par. 24-3

Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that the waiting period before which a firearm may be delivered after application for its purchase has been made does not apply to the sale of a firearm to the holder of a Curios and Relics license from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR

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1 AN ACT concerning criminal law.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by changing
5Section 24-3 as follows:
6 (720 ILCS 5/24-3) (from Ch. 38, par. 24-3)
7 Sec. 24-3. Unlawful sale or delivery of firearms.
8 (A) A person commits the offense of unlawful sale or
9delivery of firearms when he or she knowingly does any of the
10following:
11 (a) Sells or gives any firearm of a size which may be
12 concealed upon the person to any person under 18 years of
13 age.
14 (b) Sells or gives any firearm to a person under 21
15 years of age who has been convicted of a misdemeanor other
16 than a traffic offense or adjudged delinquent.
17 (c) Sells or gives any firearm to any narcotic addict.
18 (d) Sells or gives any firearm to any person who has
19 been convicted of a felony under the laws of this or any
20 other jurisdiction.
21 (e) Sells or gives any firearm to any person who has
22 been a patient in a mental institution within the past 5
23 years. In this subsection (e):

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1 "Mental institution" means any hospital,
2 institution, clinic, evaluation facility, mental
3 health center, or part thereof, which is used primarily
4 for the care or treatment of persons with mental
5 illness.
6 "Patient in a mental institution" means the person
7 was admitted, either voluntarily or involuntarily, to
8 a mental institution for mental health treatment,
9 unless the treatment was voluntary and solely for an
10 alcohol abuse disorder and no other secondary
11 substance abuse disorder or mental illness.
12 (f) Sells or gives any firearms to any person who is
13 intellectually disabled.
14 (g) Delivers any firearm of a size which may be
15 concealed upon the person, incidental to a sale, without
16 withholding delivery of such firearm for at least 72 hours
17 after application for its purchase has been made, or
18 delivers any rifle, shotgun or other long gun, or a stun
19 gun or taser, incidental to a sale, without withholding
20 delivery of such rifle, shotgun or other long gun, or a
21 stun gun or taser for at least 24 hours after application
22 for its purchase has been made. However, this paragraph (g)
23 does not apply to: (1) the sale of a firearm to a law
24 enforcement officer if the seller of the firearm knows that
25 the person to whom he or she is selling the firearm is a
26 law enforcement officer or the sale of a firearm to a

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1 person who desires to purchase a firearm for use in
2 promoting the public interest incident to his or her
3 employment as a bank guard, armed truck guard, or other
4 similar employment; (2) a mail order sale of a firearm to a
5 nonresident of Illinois under which the firearm is mailed
6 to a point outside the boundaries of Illinois; (3) the sale
7 of a firearm to a nonresident of Illinois while at a
8 firearm showing or display recognized by the Illinois
9 Department of State Police; or (4) the sale of a firearm to
10 a dealer licensed as a federal firearms dealer under
11 Section 923 of the federal Gun Control Act of 1968 (18
12 U.S.C. 923); or (5) the sale of a firearm to the holder of
13 a Curios and Relics license from the U.S. Bureau of
14 Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. For purposes of
15 this paragraph (g), "application" means when the buyer and
16 seller reach an agreement to purchase a firearm.
17 (h) While holding any license as a dealer, importer,
18 manufacturer or pawnbroker under the federal Gun Control
19 Act of 1968, manufactures, sells or delivers to any
20 unlicensed person a handgun having a barrel, slide, frame
21 or receiver which is a die casting of zinc alloy or any
22 other nonhomogeneous metal which will melt or deform at a
23 temperature of less than 800 degrees Fahrenheit. For
24 purposes of this paragraph, (1) "firearm" is defined as in
25 the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act; and (2)
26 "handgun" is defined as a firearm designed to be held and

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1 fired by the use of a single hand, and includes a
2 combination of parts from which such a firearm can be
3 assembled.
4 (i) Sells or gives a firearm of any size to any person
5 under 18 years of age who does not possess a valid Firearm
6 Owner's Identification Card.
7 (j) Sells or gives a firearm while engaged in the
8 business of selling firearms at wholesale or retail without
9 being licensed as a federal firearms dealer under Section
10 923 of the federal Gun Control Act of 1968 (18 U.S.C. 923).
11 In this paragraph (j):
12 A person "engaged in the business" means a person who
13 devotes time, attention, and labor to engaging in the
14 activity as a regular course of trade or business with the
15 principal objective of livelihood and profit, but does not
16 include a person who makes occasional repairs of firearms
17 or who occasionally fits special barrels, stocks, or
18 trigger mechanisms to firearms.
19 "With the principal objective of livelihood and
20 profit" means that the intent underlying the sale or
21 disposition of firearms is predominantly one of obtaining
22 livelihood and pecuniary gain, as opposed to other intents,
23 such as improving or liquidating a personal firearms
24 collection; however, proof of profit shall not be required
25 as to a person who engages in the regular and repetitive
26 purchase and disposition of firearms for criminal purposes

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1 or terrorism.
2 (k) Sells or transfers ownership of a firearm to a
3 person who does not display to the seller or transferor of
4 the firearm a currently valid Firearm Owner's
5 Identification Card that has previously been issued in the
6 transferee's name by the Department of State Police under
7 the provisions of the Firearm Owners Identification Card
8 Act. This paragraph (k) does not apply to the transfer of a
9 firearm to a person who is exempt from the requirement of
10 possessing a Firearm Owner's Identification Card under
11 Section 2 of the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act.
12 For the purposes of this Section, a currently valid Firearm
13 Owner's Identification Card means (i) a Firearm Owner's
14 Identification Card that has not expired or (ii) an
15 approval number issued in accordance with subsection
16 (a-10) of subsection 3 or Section 3.1 of the Firearm Owners
17 Identification Card Act shall be proof that the Firearm
18 Owner's Identification Card was valid.
19 (1) In addition to the other requirements of this
20 paragraph (k), all persons who are not federally
21 licensed firearms dealers must also have complied with
22 subsection (a-10) of Section 3 of the Firearm Owners
23 Identification Card Act by determining the validity of
24 a purchaser's Firearm Owner's Identification Card.
25 (2) All sellers or transferors who have complied
26 with the requirements of subparagraph (1) of this

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1 paragraph (k) shall not be liable for damages in any
2 civil action arising from the use or misuse by the
3 transferee of the firearm transferred, except for
4 willful or wanton misconduct on the part of the seller
5 or transferor.
6 (l) Not being entitled to the possession of a firearm,
7 delivers the firearm, knowing it to have been stolen or
8 converted. It may be inferred that a person who possesses a
9 firearm with knowledge that its serial number has been
10 removed or altered has knowledge that the firearm is stolen
11 or converted.
12 (B) Paragraph (h) of subsection (A) does not include
13firearms sold within 6 months after enactment of Public Act
1478-355 (approved August 21, 1973, effective October 1, 1973),
15nor is any firearm legally owned or possessed by any citizen or
16purchased by any citizen within 6 months after the enactment of
17Public Act 78-355 subject to confiscation or seizure under the
18provisions of that Public Act. Nothing in Public Act 78-355
19shall be construed to prohibit the gift or trade of any firearm
20if that firearm was legally held or acquired within 6 months
21after the enactment of that Public Act.
22 (C) Sentence.
23 (1) Any person convicted of unlawful sale or delivery
24 of firearms in violation of paragraph (c), (e), (f), (g),
25 or (h) of subsection (A) commits a Class 4 felony.
26 (2) Any person convicted of unlawful sale or delivery

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1 of firearms in violation of paragraph (b) or (i) of
2 subsection (A) commits a Class 3 felony.
3 (3) Any person convicted of unlawful sale or delivery
4 of firearms in violation of paragraph (a) of subsection (A)
5 commits a Class 2 felony.
6 (4) Any person convicted of unlawful sale or delivery
7 of firearms in violation of paragraph (a), (b), or (i) of
8 subsection (A) in any school, on the real property
9 comprising a school, within 1,000 feet of the real property
10 comprising a school, at a school related activity, or on or
11 within 1,000 feet of any conveyance owned, leased, or
12 contracted by a school or school district to transport
13 students to or from school or a school related activity,
14 regardless of the time of day or time of year at which the
15 offense was committed, commits a Class 1 felony. Any person
16 convicted of a second or subsequent violation of unlawful
17 sale or delivery of firearms in violation of paragraph (a),
18 (b), or (i) of subsection (A) in any school, on the real
19 property comprising a school, within 1,000 feet of the real
20 property comprising a school, at a school related activity,
21 or on or within 1,000 feet of any conveyance owned, leased,
22 or contracted by a school or school district to transport
23 students to or from school or a school related activity,
24 regardless of the time of day or time of year at which the
25 offense was committed, commits a Class 1 felony for which
26 the sentence shall be a term of imprisonment of no less

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1 than 5 years and no more than 15 years.
2 (5) Any person convicted of unlawful sale or delivery
3 of firearms in violation of paragraph (a) or (i) of
4 subsection (A) in residential property owned, operated, or
5 managed by a public housing agency or leased by a public
6 housing agency as part of a scattered site or mixed-income
7 development, in a public park, in a courthouse, on
8 residential property owned, operated, or managed by a
9 public housing agency or leased by a public housing agency
10 as part of a scattered site or mixed-income development, on
11 the real property comprising any public park, on the real
12 property comprising any courthouse, or on any public way
13 within 1,000 feet of the real property comprising any
14 public park, courthouse, or residential property owned,
15 operated, or managed by a public housing agency or leased
16 by a public housing agency as part of a scattered site or
17 mixed-income development commits a Class 2 felony.
18 (6) Any person convicted of unlawful sale or delivery
19 of firearms in violation of paragraph (j) of subsection (A)
20 commits a Class A misdemeanor. A second or subsequent
21 violation is a Class 4 felony.
22 (7) Any person convicted of unlawful sale or delivery
23 of firearms in violation of paragraph (k) of subsection (A)
24 commits a Class 4 felony, except that a violation of
25 subparagraph (1) of paragraph (k) of subsection (A) shall
26 not be punishable as a crime or petty offense. A third or

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1 subsequent conviction for a violation of paragraph (k) of
2 subsection (A) is a Class 1 felony.
3 (8) A person 18 years of age or older convicted of
4 unlawful sale or delivery of firearms in violation of
5 paragraph (a) or (i) of subsection (A), when the firearm
6 that was sold or given to another person under 18 years of
7 age was used in the commission of or attempt to commit a
8 forcible felony, shall be fined or imprisoned, or both, not
9 to exceed the maximum provided for the most serious
10 forcible felony so committed or attempted by the person
11 under 18 years of age who was sold or given the firearm.
12 (9) Any person convicted of unlawful sale or delivery
13 of firearms in violation of paragraph (d) of subsection (A)
14 commits a Class 3 felony.
15 (10) Any person convicted of unlawful sale or delivery
16 of firearms in violation of paragraph (l) of subsection (A)
17 commits a Class 2 felony if the delivery is of one firearm.
18 Any person convicted of unlawful sale or delivery of
19 firearms in violation of paragraph (l) of subsection (A)
20 commits a Class 1 felony if the delivery is of not less
21 than 2 and not more than 5 firearms at the same time or
22 within a one year period. Any person convicted of unlawful
23 sale or delivery of firearms in violation of paragraph (l)
24 of subsection (A) commits a Class X felony for which he or
25 she shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not
26 less than 6 years and not more than 30 years if the

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1 delivery is of not less than 6 and not more than 10
2 firearms at the same time or within a 2 year period. Any
3 person convicted of unlawful sale or delivery of firearms
4 in violation of paragraph (l) of subsection (A) commits a
5 Class X felony for which he or she shall be sentenced to a
6 term of imprisonment of not less than 6 years and not more
7 than 40 years if the delivery is of not less than 11 and
8 not more than 20 firearms at the same time or within a 3
9 year period. Any person convicted of unlawful sale or
10 delivery of firearms in violation of paragraph (l) of
11 subsection (A) commits a Class X felony for which he or she
12 shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less
13 than 6 years and not more than 50 years if the delivery is
14 of not less than 21 and not more than 30 firearms at the
15 same time or within a 4 year period. Any person convicted
16 of unlawful sale or delivery of firearms in violation of
17 paragraph (l) of subsection (A) commits a Class X felony
18 for which he or she shall be sentenced to a term of
19 imprisonment of not less than 6 years and not more than 60
20 years if the delivery is of 31 or more firearms at the same
21 time or within a 5 year period.
22 (D) For purposes of this Section:
23 "School" means a public or private elementary or secondary
24school, community college, college, or university.
25 "School related activity" means any sporting, social,
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1participation is sponsored, organized, or funded in whole or in
2part by a school or school district.
3 (E) A prosecution for a violation of paragraph (k) of
4subsection (A) of this Section may be commenced within 6 years
5after the commission of the offense. A prosecution for a
6violation of this Section other than paragraph (g) of
7subsection (A) of this Section may be commenced within 5 years
8after the commission of the offense defined in the particular
9paragraph.
10(Source: P.A. 97-227, eff. 1-1-12; 97-347, eff. 1-1-12; 97-813,
11eff. 7-13-12; 97-1167, eff. 6-1-13; 98-508, eff. 8-19-13.)
12 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
13becoming law.