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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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Start date: 1910Category: search.filters.subject.TRANSFER & POSSESSION

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    Samuel A. Ettelson, Opinions of the Corporation Counsel and Assistants from May 1, 1915, to June 30, 1916, at 458-59 (1916)
    (1914)
    Ordinance of May 25, 1914, §§4a-6: Required weapon sales through licensed dealers only; required purchasers of such weapons to first receive a permit from the General Superintendent of Police. Required purchasers provide proof of good moral character to receive permit; gives Superintendent discretion on issuance of permits. Prohibited the issuance of permits to anyone who was convicted of any crime and minors. Punishable by a fine.
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    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.