Bill Text: IL HB4757 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Prohibits the transfer, purchase, manufacture, importation, possession of unfinished frames or receivers and unserialized firearms. Provides a process for serializing unfinished frames or receivers and unserialized firearms. Provides that it is unlawful for a person to manufacture or distribute a firearm using a three-dimensional printer under specified circumstances. Provides that a first violation is a Class A misdemeanor and that a second or subsequent violation is a Class X felony.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-27 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Margaret Croke [HB4757 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-HB4757-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 HB4757 Introduced , by Rep. Kambium Buckner SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
720 ILCS 5/24-5.1 new
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Prohibits the transfer, purchase, manufacture, importation, possession of unfinished frames or receivers and unserialized firearms. Provides a process for serializing unfinished frames or receivers and unserialized firearms. Provides that it is unlawful for a person to manufacture or distribute a firearm using a three-dimensional printer under specified circumstances. Provides that a first violation is a Class A misdemeanor and that a second or subsequent violation is a Class X felony.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning criminal law.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by adding
Section 24-5.1 as follows:
(720 ILCS 5/24-5.1 new)
Sec. 24-5.1. Prohibition on the transfer, purchase,
manufacture, importation, possession of unfinished frames or
receivers and unserialized firearms; exceptions; penalties.
(a) As used in this Section:
"Federal firearms dealer" means a licensed
manufacturer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 921(a)(11).
"Federal firearms importer" means a licensed importer
pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 921(a)(9).
"Federal firearms manufacturer" means a licensed
manufacturer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 921(a)(10).
"Frame or receiver" means a part of a firearm that,
when the complete weapon is assembled, is visible from the
exterior and provides housing or a structure designed to
hold or integrate one or more fire control components,
even if pins or other attachments are required to connect
those components to the housing or structure. For models
of firearms in which multiple parts provide such housing

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or structure, the part or parts that the Director of the
federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives
has determined are a frame or receiver constitute the
frame or receiver. For purposes of this definition, the
term "fire control component" means a component necessary
for the firearm to initiate, complete, or continue the
firing sequence, including any of the following: Hammer,
bolt, bolt carrier, breechblock, cylinder, trigger
mechanism, firing pin, striker, or slide rails.
"Three-dimensional printer" means a computer or
computer-drive machine capable of producing a
three-dimensional object from a digital model.
"Unfinished frame or receiver" means any forging,
casting, printing, extrusion, machined body or similar
article that: (1) has reached a stage in manufacture where
it may readily be completed, assembled or converted to be
a functional; or (2) is marketed or sold to the public to
become or be used as the frame or receiver of a functional
firearm once completed, assembled or converted.
(b) One hundred eighty days after the effective date of
this amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly, it shall be
unlawful for any person to knowingly possess, transport, or
receive an unfinished frame or receiver, unless: the party
possessing or receiving the unfinished frame or receiver is a
federal firearms importer or federal firearms manufacturer; or
the unfinished frame or receiver is required by federal law to

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be, and has been, imprinted with a serial number issued by a
federal firearms importer or federal firearms manufacturer.
It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly sell,
offer to sell, transfer, or purchase an unfinished frame or
receiver, unless: the party purchasing or receiving the
unfinished frame or receiver is a federal firearms importer,
federal firearms manufacturer, or federal firearms dealer; or
the unfinished frame or receiver is required by federal law to
be, and has been, imprinted with a serial number issued by a
federal firearms importer or federal firearms manufacturer.
(c) One year after the effective date of this amendatory
Act of the 102nd General Assembly, unless the party receiving
the firearm is a law enforcement agency, federal firearms
importer, or federal firearms manufacturer, it shall be
unlawful for any person to knowingly possess, purchase,
transport, or receive a firearm that is not imprinted with a
serial number: by a federal firearms importer or federal
firearms manufacturer in compliance with all federal laws and
regulations regulating the manufacture and import of firearms;
or by a federal firearms manufacturer, federal firearms
dealer, or other federal licensee authorized to provide
marketing services in compliance with the unserialized firearm
serialization process under subsection (e) of this Section.
(d) Unless the party selling and the party receiving or
purchasing the firearm is a law enforcement agency, federal
firearms importer, or federal firearms manufacturer, it shall

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be unlawful for any person to knowingly sell, offer to sell, or
transfer a firearm that is not imprinted with a serial number:
by a federal firearms manufacturer, federal firearms dealer,
or other federal licensee authorized to provide marketing
service in compliance with unserialized firearm serialization
process under subsection (e) of this Section; or by a federal
firearms importer or federal firearms manufacturer in
compliance with all federal laws and regulations regulating
the manufacture and import of firearms.
(e) Unserialized firearms shall be serialized in
compliance with all of the following:
(1) An unserialized firearm may be serialized by a
federally licensed firearms dealer or other federal
licensee authorized to provide marking services with the
licensee's abbreviated federal firearms license number as
a prefix (which is the first three and last five digits)
followed by a hyphen, and then followed by a number as a
suffix, e.g., "12345678-[number]". The serial number(s)
must be placed in a manner that accords with the
requirements under federal law for affixing serial numbers
to firearms, including the requirements that the serial
number(s) be at the minimum size and depth, and not
susceptible of being readily obliterated, altered, or
removed, and the licensee must retain records that accord
with the requirements under federal law in the case of the
sale of a firearm.

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(2) Every federally licensed firearms dealer or other
federal licensee that engraves, casts, stamps or otherwise
conspicuously places a unique serial number pursuant to
this section shall keep a record book and enter it at the
time of every transaction involving the transfer of a
firearm, rifle, shotgun, finished frame or receiver, or
unfinished frame or receiver that has been so marked by
the federal licensee, the date, name, age, and residence
of any person to whom such item is transferred along with
the unique serial number engraved, cast, stamped, or
otherwise conspicuously placed thereon.
(3) Every federally licensed firearms dealer or other
federal licensee that engraves, casts, stamps or otherwise
conspicuously places a unique serial number pursuant to
this section shall review and confirm the validity of the
owner's Firearm Owner's Identification (FOID) Card issued
under the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act prior to
returning the firearm to the owner.
(4) A federally licensed firearm dealer or other
federal licensee may charge a fee not to exceed $35 to
engrave, cast, stamp or otherwise conspicuously place a
unique serial number pursuant to this section.
(f) It is unlawful for a person to manufacture or
distribute a firearm using a three-dimensional printer when
the person does any one of the following:
(1) Uses a three-dimensional printer or similar device

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to manufacture or produce a firearm, firearm receiver, or
major firearm component when not licensed as a federal
firearm manufacturer.
(2) Distributes by any means, including the Internet,
to a person who is not licensed as a manufacturer,
instructions in the form of computer-aided design files or
other code or instructions stored and displayed in
electronic format as a digital model that may be used to
program a three-dimensional printer to manufacture or
produce a firearm, firearm receiver or major component of
a firearm.
(g) The Director of the Illinois State Police shall issue
public notice regarding the provisions of this Section. Such
notice shall include posting on the Illinois State Police
website and may include written notification or any other
means of communication State-wide to all federal firearms
manufacturers, federal firearms dealers, or other federal
licensees authorized to provide marketing services in
compliance with the unserialized firearm serialization process
in subsection (e) in order to educate the public.
(h) Subsections (c) and (d) shall not apply to a firearm
that:
(1) has been rendered permanently inoperable;
(2) is an antique firearm, as defined in 18 U.S.C.
Section 921(a)(16); or
(3) was manufactured prior to October 22, 1968.

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(i) A person who violates the provisions of this Section
is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor for a first violation and is
guilty of a Class X felony for a second or subsequent
violation.