(A) No person shall knowingly:
(1) Sell, manufacture, purchase, possess or carry any bludgeon, black-jack, slung-shot, sand-club, sand-bag, metal knuckles or other knuckle weapon regardless of its composition, throwing star or any knife, commonly referred to as a switch-blade 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 a ballistic knife, which is a device that propels a knifelike blade as a projectile by means of a coil spring, elastic material or compressed gas, but which shall not be deemed to include crossbows, common or compound bows and/or underwater spearguns;
(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;
(3) Carry on or about his or her person or in any vehicle, a tear gas gun projector or bomb or any object containing noxious liquid gas or substance, other than an object containing a non-lethal noxious liquid gas or substance designed solely for personal defense carried by a person 18 years of age or older;
(4) Carry or possess in any vehicle or concealed on or about his or her person except when on his or her land or in his or her own abode or fixed place of business any pistol, revolver, stun gun or taser or other firearm, except that this division (A)(4) does not apply to or affect transportation of weapons that meet one of the following conditions:
(a) Are broken down in a non-functioning state;
(b) Are not immediately accessible; or
(c) Are unloaded and enclosed in a case, firearm carrying box, shipping box or other container by a person who has been issued a currently valid firearm owner’s identification card.
(5) Set a spring gun;
(6) 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. This division (A)(6) does not apply to any auction or raffle of a firearm held pursuant to a license or permit issued by a governmental body, nor does it apply to persons engaged in firearm safety training courses;
(7) Carry or possess on or about his or her person, upon any public street, alley or other public lands within the corporate limits of the village, except when an invitee thereon or therein, for the purpose of the display of such weapon or the lawful commerce in weapons, or except when on his or her land or in his or her own abode or fixed place of business, any pistol, revolver, stun gun or taser or other firearm, except that this division (A)(7) does not apply to or affect transportation of weapons that meet one of the following conditions:
(a) Are broken down in a non-functioning state;
(b) Are not immediately accessible; or
(c) Are unloaded and enclosed in a case, firearm carrying box, shipping box or other container by a person who has been issued a currently valid firearm owner’s identification card.
(8) Sell, manufacture, deliver, import, possess, or purchase any assault weapon attachment or .50 caliber cartridge in violation of 720 ILCS 5/24-1.9 or any explosive bullet. EXPLOSIVE BULLET shall mean the projectile portion of an ammunition cartridge which contains or carries an explosive charge which will explode upon contact with the flesh of a human or an animal. CARTRIDGE means a tubular metal case having a projectile affixed at the front thereof and a cap or primer at the rear end thereof, with the propellant contained in the tube between the projectile and the cap; or
(9) Carries or possesses on or about his or her person while in a building occupied by a unit of government, a billy club, other weapon of like character or other instrument of like character intended for use as a weapon. For the purposes of this section, BILLY CLUB means a short stick or club commonly carried by police officers which is either telescopic or constructed of a solid piece of wood or other human-made material.
(10) Manufacture, possess, sell, or offer to sell, purchase, manufacture, import, transfer, or use any device, part, kit, tool, accessory, or combination of parts that is designed to and functions to increase the rate of fire of a semiautomatic firearm above the standard rate of fire for semiautomatic firearms that is not equipped with that device, part, or combination of parts; or
(11) Carry or possess any assault weapon or .50 caliber rifle in violation of 720 ILCS 5/24-1.9; or
(12) Manufacture, sell, deliver, import, or purchase any assault weapon or .50 caliber rifle in violation of 720 ILCS 5/24-1.9.
(B) A STUN GUN or TASER, as used in division (A), means:
(1) 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 a current capable of disrupting the person’s nervous system in such a manner as to render him or her incapable of normal functioning; or
(2) Any device which is powered by electrical charging units, such as batteries, and which, upon contact with a human or clothing worn by a human, can send out a current capable of disrupting the person’s nervous system in such a manner as to render him or her incapable of normal functioning.
(720 ILCS 5/24-1(a)) (2000 Code, § 137.01) Penalty, see § 130.99
Statutory reference:
Silencers on guns; machine guns; possession of weapon while hooded, robed and/or masked; or possession of weapons on school or university grounds (all of which are felonies), see 720 ILCS 5/24-1(a)(6), 720 ILCS 5/24-1(a)(7) and 720 ILCS 5/24-1(a)(9) and 720 ILCS 5/24-1(c)(2)