(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.
(G) An information or indictment based upon a violation of any division of this section need not negative any exemptions contained in this section. The defendant shall have the burden of proving such an exemption.
(Ord. 84-8-559, passed 8-27-84) Penalty, see § 130.99