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Peoria Illinois Firearm Laws
Code of the City of Peoria
Chapter 20. Offenses and Miscellaneous Provisions
Article III. Minors
Division 1. Generally
20-51. Selling, etc., weapons to prohibited.
No person shall sell, give, loan, hire, barter, furnish or offer to sell, give, loan, hire, barter or furnish, to any minor within the city, any gun, pistol, revolver, fowling piece or toy firearm, in which any explosive substance can be used; or any Bowie knife, dirk, dagger or other deadly weapon of a like character.
Article VI. Weapons
Division 2. Concealable Deadly Weapons
20-181. License to sell, etc.
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the business of selling, or to sell or give away, any pistol, revolver, dagger, stiletto, billie, derringer, Bowie knife, dirk or other deadly weapon, which can be concealed on the person, without securing a license so to do.
(b) An application for the license required by subsection (a) of this section shall be made in conformity with the general requirements of article I of chapter 18 of this Code, relating to applications for licenses.
(c) The annual fee for a deadly weapon license shall be $20.00.
(d) In case the city manager shall determine that an applicant for a license under this section has violated any provision of this section, he shall revoke the license of such person for the selling of such weapons, and the money paid for such license shall be forfeited to the city. No other license shall be issued to such licensee for a period of three years thereafter.
20-182. Required certificate and thumbprint.
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, barter or give away to any person within the city any deadly weapon mentioned in section 20181, except to licensed dealers, without first obtaining from the person receiving such deadly weapon a signed statement in which he states that he is over 21 years of age; that he is not under indictment for, nor has been convicted of, a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term of one year or more; that he is not a fugitive from justice; nor an unlawful user or addicted to a depressant, stimulant or narcotic drug; nor that he has been adjudicated mentally defective or has been committed to a mental institution; and which statement shall contain a thumbprint from the person receiving such weapon. Such thumbprint shall be the right-hand thumbprint unless circumstances prevent, in which case it shall be the left-hand thumbprint. All such information required by this section shall be entered upon forms provided by the superintendent of police for that purpose.
(b) Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be punished as provided in section 1-5 of this Code.
20-183. Record of weapons sold, loaned, etc., to be kept; form; inspection.
(a) Every person dealing in the weapons mentioned in section 20-181 at retail within the city shall keep a record of all such weapons sold, loaned, rented or given away by him. The record required herein shall be made at the time of the transaction, in a book kept for that purpose, and shall include the name of the person to whom such weapon is sold, loaned, rented or given; his age; date of birth; legal residence; social security number, if any; driver's license number, if any; the kind and description of the weapon; if a firearm, the make, caliber and finish thereof, together with the number or serial letter thereof, if any; his state firearm owner's identification number; the date of the sale, loaning, rental or gift and the name of the employee or other person making such sale, rental, loan or gift.
(b) Such book shall be kept open for the inspection of the police at all reasonable times during business hours.
(c) Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be punished as provided in section 1-5 of this Code.
20-184. Report of sales, etc., to superintendent of police. Every person dealing in the deadly weapons referred to in section 20-181 shall deliver daily reports to the superintendent of police. The reports shall be on forms provided by the superintendent of police and shall be a legible and correct report of every sale or gift made under authority of his license during the preceding 24 hours and shall set forth the information required in section 20-183 and the certificate required by section 20-182.
20-185. Restriction on sale. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, barter or give away; to any person within the city; any deadly weapon mentioned in section 20-181, to any person known to him to be under 21 years of age or of unsound mind or under indictment or a drug addict or a fugitive from justice or who has been convicted of a crime of violence.
20-186. Exhibiting firearms. It shall be unlawful for any person to exhibit or display any firearm capable of being concealed on the person in any display window on the exterior of a business establishment during hours the establishment is not opened for business.
20-187. Registration.
(a) All permanent residents of the city and those persons who reside in the city continuously for more than ten days who have in their possession any pistol, revolver or gun which may be concealed on the person shall register such gun or pistol with the superintendent of police, setting forth the caliber, make, model and manufacturer's number of the weapon. No fee shall be required for such registration.
(b) For the purpose of this article only, the term "reside" shall mean either the physical presence of a person at a location for the reason of shelter or lodging, or the keeping of a dwelling by a person for the purpose of his shelter.
(c) Any person who does not register a deadly weapon as provided shall be fined not less than $50.00 nor more than as provided in section 1-5 for failure to register such revolver, gun or pistol.
20-188. Carrying concealed -Prohibited. No person within the city shall carry or wear under his clothes or concealed about his person, any pistol, revolver, derringer, Bowie knife, dirk, knife, razor, dagger, slingshot, metallic knuckles or other dangerous or deadly weapons of a like character.
[Peoria City Code codified through Ord. 16214 enacted Nov. 27, 2007]