In case you missed it, here is where you aren’t allowed to have a concealed carry gun:
Prohibited carry places
- Preschools, elementary and secondary schools; child care facilities; playgrounds;
- Public parks located within a municipality under the control of a municipality or park district; Cook County Forest Preserve;
- Bars (defined as having more than 50% of its gross receipts from the sale of liquor);
- State buildings, local government buildings, courthouses, police stations, jails, libraries; airports;
- Hospitals, mental health facilities, nursing homes;
- Stadiums, arenas, and sporting events;
- Amusement parks, zoos, and museums;
- Colleges and universities;
- Public transportation – paid in part or whole with public funds;
- Public gatherings authorized by a unit of local government (like Taste of Chicago);
- Nuclear facilities; and
- Any area prohibited under federal law. Private property owners may prohibit the carrying of concealedfirearms by posting.
Parking Lot Exception
However, a licensee may carry and store concealed firearm in his or her vehicle within one of the prohibited areas listed above and can also exit the vehicle with an unloaded firearm in order to store or retrieve a firearm in the trunk.
Pass-Through Provisions
A licensee shall not be in violation of a prohibited area while he or she is traveling along a public right of way that touches or crosses any prohibited area if the concealed firearm is carried on his or her person in accordance with the provisions of this legislation or is being transported in a vehicle by the licensee in accordance with all other applicable provisions of law.
Maybe the list of where you can would have been shorter!
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Courtesy of the Firearm Safety GroupFSG JULY NEWSLETTER |
I am disgusted. I agree…don’t carry if you don’t want to be fined.
We need to get together to get our local governments to make their own ordinance. As it stands now, concealed carry is not legal in Bloomington.
It says:
Section 1 : Concealed Weapons – Prohibition of – Penalty.
It shall be unlawful for any person within the limits of the City to carry or wear under his clothes, or concealed about his person, any pistol, revolver, sling shot, cross knuckles or knuckles of lead, brass or metal, bowie knife, dirk knife, dirk, razor, dagger, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon; or to display or flourish any such weapon in a boisterous or threatening manner. Every person guilty of a violation of this Section shall be fined not less than Twenty-five Dollars or more than Two Hundred Dollars; provided that the provisions of this Section shall not be held to apply to any policeman, constable, or other peace officer while in the discharge of his duty, nor to any person summoned by any such officer to aid in making an arrest or preserving the peace.
Section 2 : Confiscation of Weapons.
Any such weapon or weapons duly adjudged by any police magistrate or justice of the peace of said City to have been worn or carried by any person in violation of the preceding Section of this Article shall be forfeited and confiscated to the City, and upon the trial of any person for violation of the preceding Section of this Article, the magistrate before whom such trial takes place shall enter up such forfeiture as part of the judgment and penalty for any such violation.
Less hassle to keep one in a fanny pack and a clip in a pocket. Loading time, 2.5 seconds. Much quicker than making a phone call.