Bill Title: Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Provides that a county, including a home rule county, may not regulate firearms or impose greater restrictions or limitations on the acquisition, possession, transportation, carrying, and transfer of firearms, firearm attachments, and firearm ammunition. Further provides that the provisions of any ordinance or resolution imposing restrictions or limitations on the ownership or possession of firearms and ammunition, components, accessories, and accoutrements of firearms in a manner other than the requirements imposed by this Act or the Deadly Weapons Article of the Criminal Code of 1961 created after the effective date of this amendatory Act are invalid and all those existing ordinances and resolution are void. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB0008 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [HTML]

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