Bill Text: IL HB2925 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. In the definition of "firearm", deletes language excluding any pneumatic gun, spring gun, paint ball gun, or B-B gun which expels a single globular projectile not exceeding .18 inch in diameter or which has a maximum muzzle velocity of less than 700 feet per second.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-05 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB2925 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB2925-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB2925 Introduced , by Rep. Dennis Tipsword, Jr. SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
430 ILCS 65/1.1
Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. In the definition of "firearm", deletes language excluding any pneumatic gun, spring gun, paint ball gun, or B-B gun which expels a single globular projectile not exceeding .18 inch in diameter or which has a maximum muzzle velocity of less than 700 feet per second.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning safety.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Firearm Owners Identification Card Act is
amended by changing Section 1.1 as follows:
(430 ILCS 65/1.1)
Sec. 1.1. For purposes of this Act:
"Addicted to narcotics" means a person who has been:
(1) convicted of an offense involving the use or
possession of cannabis, a controlled substance, or
methamphetamine within the past year; or
(2) determined by the Illinois State Police to be
addicted to narcotics based upon federal law or federal
guidelines.
"Addicted to narcotics" does not include possession or use
of a prescribed controlled substance under the direction and
authority of a physician or other person authorized to
prescribe the controlled substance when the controlled
substance is used in the prescribed manner.
"Adjudicated as a person with a mental disability" means
the person is the subject of a determination by a court, board,
commission or other lawful authority that the person, as a
result of marked subnormal intelligence, or mental illness,

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mental impairment, incompetency, condition, or disease:
(1) presents a clear and present danger to himself,
herself, or to others;
(2) lacks the mental capacity to manage his or her own
affairs or is adjudicated a person with a disability as
defined in Section 11a-2 of the Probate Act of 1975;
(3) is not guilty in a criminal case by reason of
insanity, mental disease or defect;
(3.5) is guilty but mentally ill, as provided in
Section 5-2-6 of the Unified Code of Corrections;
(4) is incompetent to stand trial in a criminal case;
(5) is not guilty by reason of lack of mental
responsibility under Articles 50a and 72b of the Uniform
Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. 850a, 876b;
(6) is a sexually violent person under subsection (f)
of Section 5 of the Sexually Violent Persons Commitment
Act;
(7) is a sexually dangerous person under the Sexually
Dangerous Persons Act;
(8) is unfit to stand trial under the Juvenile Court
Act of 1987;
(9) is not guilty by reason of insanity under the
Juvenile Court Act of 1987;
(10) is subject to involuntary admission as an
inpatient as defined in Section 1-119 of the Mental Health
and Developmental Disabilities Code;

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(11) is subject to involuntary admission as an
outpatient as defined in Section 1-119.1 of the Mental
Health and Developmental Disabilities Code;
(12) is subject to judicial admission as set forth in
Section 4-500 of the Mental Health and Developmental
Disabilities Code; or
(13) is subject to the provisions of the Interstate
Agreements on Sexually Dangerous Persons Act.
"Clear and present danger" means a person who:
(1) communicates a serious threat of physical violence
against a reasonably identifiable victim or poses a clear
and imminent risk of serious physical injury to himself,
herself, or another person as determined by a physician,
clinical psychologist, or qualified examiner; or
(2) demonstrates threatening physical or verbal
behavior, such as violent, suicidal, or assaultive
threats, actions, or other behavior, as determined by a
physician, clinical psychologist, qualified examiner,
school administrator, or law enforcement official.
"Clinical psychologist" has the meaning provided in
Section 1-103 of the Mental Health and Developmental
Disabilities Code.
"Controlled substance" means a controlled substance or
controlled substance analog as defined in the Illinois
Controlled Substances Act.
"Counterfeit" means to copy or imitate, without legal

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authority, with intent to deceive.
"Developmental disability" means a severe, chronic
disability of an individual that:
(1) is attributable to a mental or physical impairment
or combination of mental and physical impairments;
(2) is manifested before the individual attains age
22;
(3) is likely to continue indefinitely;
(4) results in substantial functional limitations in 3
or more of the following areas of major life activity:
(A) Self-care.
(B) Receptive and expressive language.
(C) Learning.
(D) Mobility.
(E) Self-direction.
(F) Capacity for independent living.
(G) Economic self-sufficiency; and
(5) reflects the individual's need for a combination
and sequence of special, interdisciplinary, or generic
services, individualized supports, or other forms of
assistance that are of lifelong or extended duration and
are individually planned and coordinated.
"Federally licensed firearm dealer" means a person who is
licensed as a federal firearms dealer under Section 923 of the
federal Gun Control Act of 1968 (18 U.S.C. 923).
"Firearm" means any device, by whatever name known, which

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is designed to expel a projectile or projectiles by the action
of an explosion, expansion of gas or escape of gas; excluding,
however:
(1) (blank); any pneumatic gun, spring gun, paint ball
gun, or B-B gun which expels a single globular projectile
not exceeding .18 inch in diameter or which has a maximum
muzzle velocity of less than 700 feet per second;
(1.1) any pneumatic gun, spring gun, paint ball gun,
or B-B gun which expels breakable paint balls containing
washable marking colors;
(2) any device used exclusively for signaling or
safety and required or recommended by the United States
Coast Guard or the Interstate Commerce Commission;
(3) any device used exclusively for the firing of stud
cartridges, explosive rivets or similar industrial
ammunition; and
(4) an antique firearm (other than a machine-gun)
which, although designed as a weapon, the Illinois State
Police finds by reason of the date of its manufacture,
value, design, and other characteristics is primarily a
collector's item and is not likely to be used as a weapon.
"Firearm ammunition" means any self-contained cartridge or
shotgun shell, by whatever name known, which is designed to be
used or adaptable to use in a firearm; excluding, however:
(1) any ammunition exclusively designed for use with a
device used exclusively for signaling or safety and

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required or recommended by the United States Coast Guard
or the Interstate Commerce Commission; and
(2) any ammunition designed exclusively for use with a
stud or rivet driver or other similar industrial
ammunition.
"Gun show" means an event or function:
(1) at which the sale and transfer of firearms is the
regular and normal course of business and where 50 or more
firearms are displayed, offered, or exhibited for sale,
transfer, or exchange; or
(2) at which not less than 10 gun show vendors
display, offer, or exhibit for sale, sell, transfer, or
exchange firearms.
"Gun show" includes the entire premises provided for an
event or function, including parking areas for the event or
function, that is sponsored to facilitate the purchase, sale,
transfer, or exchange of firearms as described in this
Section. Nothing in this definition shall be construed to
exclude a gun show held in conjunction with competitive
shooting events at the World Shooting Complex sanctioned by a
national governing body in which the sale or transfer of
firearms is authorized under subparagraph (5) of paragraph (g)
of subsection (A) of Section 24-3 of the Criminal Code of 2012.
Unless otherwise expressly stated, "gun show" does not
include training or safety classes, competitive shooting
events, such as rifle, shotgun, or handgun matches, trap,

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skeet, or sporting clays shoots, dinners, banquets, raffles,
or any other event where the sale or transfer of firearms is
not the primary course of business.
"Gun show promoter" means a person who organizes or
operates a gun show.
"Gun show vendor" means a person who exhibits, sells,
offers for sale, transfers, or exchanges any firearms at a gun
show, regardless of whether the person arranges with a gun
show promoter for a fixed location from which to exhibit,
sell, offer for sale, transfer, or exchange any firearm.
"Intellectual disability" means significantly subaverage
general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with
deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the
developmental period, which is defined as before the age of
22, that adversely affects a child's educational performance.
"Involuntarily admitted" has the meaning as prescribed in
Sections 1-119 and 1-119.1 of the Mental Health and
Developmental Disabilities Code.
"Mental health facility" means any licensed private
hospital or hospital affiliate, institution, or facility, or
part thereof, and any facility, or part thereof, operated by
the State or a political subdivision thereof which provides
treatment of persons with mental illness and includes all
hospitals, institutions, clinics, evaluation facilities,
mental health centers, colleges, universities, long-term care
facilities, and nursing homes, or parts thereof, which provide

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treatment of persons with mental illness whether or not the
primary purpose is to provide treatment of persons with mental
illness.
"National governing body" means a group of persons who
adopt rules and formulate policy on behalf of a national
firearm sporting organization.
"Noncitizen" means a person who is not a citizen of the
United States, but is a person who is a foreign-born person who
lives in the United States, has not been naturalized, and is
still a citizen of a foreign country.
"Patient" means:
(1) a person who is admitted as an inpatient or
resident of a public or private mental health facility for
mental health treatment under Chapter III of the Mental
Health and Developmental Disabilities Code as an informal
admission, a voluntary admission, a minor admission, an
emergency admission, or an involuntary admission, unless
the treatment was solely for an alcohol abuse disorder; or
(2) a person who voluntarily or involuntarily receives
mental health treatment as an out-patient or is otherwise
provided services by a public or private mental health
facility and who poses a clear and present danger to
himself, herself, or others.
"Physician" has the meaning as defined in Section 1-120 of
the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code.
"Protective order" means any orders of protection issued

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under the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986, stalking no
contact orders issued under the Stalking No Contact Order Act,
civil no contact orders issued under the Civil No Contact
Order Act, and firearms restraining orders issued under the
Firearms Restraining Order Act or a substantially similar
order issued by the court of another state, tribe, or United
States territory or military tribunal.
"Qualified examiner" has the meaning provided in Section
1-122 of the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities
Code.
"Sanctioned competitive shooting event" means a shooting
contest officially recognized by a national or state shooting
sport association, and includes any sight-in or practice
conducted in conjunction with the event.
"School administrator" means the person required to report
under the School Administrator Reporting of Mental Health
Clear and Present Danger Determinations Law.
"Stun gun or taser" has the meaning ascribed to it in
Section 24-1 of the Criminal Code of 2012.
(Source: P.A. 102-237, eff. 1-1-22; 102-538, eff. 8-20-21;
102-813, eff. 5-13-22; 102-890, eff. 5-19-22; 102-972, eff.
1-1-23; 102-1030, eff. 5-27-22; revised 12-14-22.)