Illinois

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Illinois

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Illinois. It supports research on the state’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from the territorial period through statehood to the present.

Legal sources: statutes and session laws, administrative code, attorney general opinions, appellate decisions, and select municipal ordinances.
Historical materials: newspapers, photographs, maps, catalogs, manufacturing and transportation records (e.g., Chicago and downstate corridors), and oral histories tied to Illinois people and places.
Research outputs: technical reports, academic studies, training manuals, and curated datasets relevant to the state.

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1917 Ill. Laws 341
(1917)
An Act to Define and Provide a Punishment for the Crime of Burglary with Explosives, § 1: Enhanced the sentence of anyone who breaks and enters into a building with the purpose of committing any crime and uses nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gunpowder, or any other explosive. Violators deemed guilty of burglary with explosives and shall be imprisoned not less than five nor more than twenty years.
1885 Ill. Rev. Stat. 192
(1885)
An Act to Protect Cemeteries and to Provide for their Regulation and Management, § 1: That any person who shall willfully destroy, mutilate or injure any tomb, monument, stone, vault, tree, shrub or ornament, or any object whatever, in any cemetery, or in any avenue, lot or part thereof, or shall hunt, shoot or discharge any gun, pistol or other missile, with the limits of any cemetery, or shall cause any shot or missile to be discharged into or over any portion thereof, or shall violate any of the rules made and established by the board of directors of such cemetery§
1901 Ill. Laws 213
(1901)
Protection of Game, § 1: Prohibited shoot, kill, destroy, or shoot at any wild goose, brant, or other water fowl with a swivel gun.
1893 Ill. Laws 477-78
(1893)
§ 54a: Prohibited the possession, selling, giving, loaning, hiring, bartering, any slung-shot or metallic knuckles, or other deadly weapon of like character. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, fined not less than ten but no more than two hundred dollars.
1885 Ill. Stat. Ann. 771, § 4
(1885)
Concealed Weapon - Flourishing weapon, ch. 38, § 4: Whoever shall carry a concealed weapon upon or about his person of the character in this Act specified, or razor as a weapon, or whoever, in a threatening or boisterous manner, shall display or flourish any deadly weapon, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined in any sum not less than twenty-five dollars ($25) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200).
1885 Ill. Laws 57
(1885)
An Act to Protect Cemeteries and to Provide for their Regulation and Management, § 1: Prohibited destroying, mutilating, or injuring any tomb, monument, stone, vault, tree, shrub, or ornament, or any object whatsoever in any cemetary. Also prohibited hunting, shooting, or discharging any gun, pistol, or other missile within any cemetary limits.
1931 Ill. Laws 452-54
(1931)
An Act to Regulate the Sale, Possession and Transportation of Machine Guns, § 4: Required every manufacturer or merchant to keep a register of all machine guns manufactured or handled. Data kept includes the sale, loan, gift, delivery, or receipt of any machine gun, the name, address, and occupation of the person to whom the machine gun was delivered, from whom it was received, and why it was sold, loaned, given, delivered, purchased, or obtained said machine gun. Law enforcement shall have on-demand access to these records.
1908 Ill. Laws 40-41
(1908)
Regulate Storage of Combustibles—Fireworks, §1334, pt. 65: Amended the powers granted to cities with a population of one hundred thousand or more to regulate and prevent the storage of gunpowder, tar, pitch, resin, coal oil, benzine, turpentine, hemp, cotton, nitro-glycerine, petroleum, or other combustible or explosive material.
1885 Ill. Rev. Stat. 771
(1885)
Criminal Code Ch. 38, para. 90: Required all dealers to keep a registration of all deadly weapons sold or given away, including any slung-shot, metallic knuckles, pistol, revolver, derringer, Bowie knife, dirk, or other deadly weapon.
278 Samuel Irwin, Reports of Cases At Law And In Chancery 566 (1917)
(1917)
Court issued opinion reciting chapter 54 of the Chicago code of 1911, where an ordinance granted the general superintendent of the police the authority to refuse a license to those not considered "the People" of the time, namely persons having been convicted of a crime and minors. The licenses concerned buying, selling, or otherwise transferring pistols, revolvers, derringers, Bowie-knives, dirk, other weapons of like character.
1882 Ill. Rev. Stat. 375
(1881)
§ 54(b): Prohibited selling, giving, loaning, hiring , bartering, or offering for sale any pistol, revolver, derringer, Bowie knife, dirk, or other deadly weapon to minors. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, fined not less than twenty-five but no more than two hundred dollars.
1881 Ill. Laws 71
(1881)
Prohibited selling, giving, loaning, hiring for barter any minor a pistol, revolver, derringer, Bowie knife, dirk or other deadly weapon. Punishable by fine of $25-200.

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