Posted 17 October 2016 - 12:04 PM

c) Subsection 24-1(a)(7) does not apply to or affect any

of the following:(1) Peace officers while in performance of their official duties.



Is this a carve out for cops?



Working from tablet, nakes this quite difficult to follow

You are not reading it correctly, sorry.

24-1(a)(7) is existing stuff, it's an existing exception.

It is not in the text of the bill, it is in the text of the existing law.

something close by the bill changes happens to reference it, that reference shows up in the text of the bill, but it's not a change introduced by the bill.

that's all.

(720 ILCS 5/24-1) (from Ch. 38, par. 24-1)

Sec. 24-1. Unlawful use of weapons.

(a) A person commits the offense of unlawful use of weapons when he knowingly:

(7) Sells, manufactures, purchases, possesses or carries:

(i) a machine gun, which shall be defined for the



purposes of this subsection as any weapon, which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot without manually reloading by a single function of the trigger, including the frame or receiver of any such weapon, or sells, manufactures, purchases, possesses, or carries any combination of parts designed or intended for use in converting any weapon into a machine gun, or any combination or parts from which a machine gun can be assembled if such parts are in the possession or under the control of a person;

(ii) any rifle having one or more barrels less



than 16 inches in length or a shotgun having one or more barrels less than 18 inches in length or any weapon made from a rifle or shotgun, whether by alteration, modification, or otherwise, if such a weapon as modified has an overall length of less than 26 inches; or

(iii) any bomb, bomb-shell, grenade, bottle or



other container containing an explosive substance of over one-quarter ounce for like purposes, such as, but not limited to, black powder bombs and Molotov cocktails or artillery projectiles; or