8-20-020 Unlawful possession of handguns.
(a) It is unlawful for any person to carry or possess a handgun, except when in the person's home.
(b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to:
(1) peace officers, and any person summoned by a peace officer to assist in making arrests or preserving the peace, while assisting such officer;
(2) corrections officers while in the performance of their official duty, or while commuting between their homes and places of employment;
(3) members of the Armed Services or Reserve Forces of the United States or the Illinois National Guard or the Reserve Officers Training Corps, while in the performance of their official duty;
(4) security personnel;
(5) persons licensed as private security contractors, private detectives, or private alarm contractors, or employed by an agency certified by the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation;
(6) persons regularly employed in a commercial or industrial operation as a security guard for the protection of persons employed and private property related to such commercial or industrial operation, while in the performance of their duties or traveling between sites or properties belonging to the employer, and who, as a security guard, is registered with the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation;
(7) persons employed by a financial institution for the protection of other employees and property related to such financial institution, while in the performance of their duties, commuting between their homes and places of employment, or traveling between sites or properties owned or operated by such financial institution;
(8) persons employed by an armored car company to drive an armored car, while in the performance of their duties;
(9) persons who have been classified as peace officers pursuant to the Peace Officer Fire Investigation Act;
(10) investigators of the Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor authorized by the board of governors of the Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor to carry weapons pursuant to Section 7.06 of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor's Act;
(11) special investigators appointed by a State's Attorney under Section 3-9005 of the Counties Code;
(12) probation officers while in the performance of their duties, or while commuting between their homes, places of employment or specific locations that are part of their assigned duties, with the consent of the chief judge of the circuit for which they are employed;
(13) court security officers while in the performance of their official duties, or while commuting between their homes and places of employment, with the consent of the sheriff;
(14) persons employed as an armed security guard at a nuclear energy, storage, weapons or development site or facility regulated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission who have completed the background screening and training mandated by the rules and regulations of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission;
(15) duly authorized military or civil organizations while parading, with the special permission of the Governor;
(16) persons engaged in the manufacture, transportation, or sale of firearms to persons authorized under this subsection to possess those firearms;
(17) a person while engaged in the lawful transportation of a firearm ;
(18) a range master, manager or employee, as those terms are defined in Section 4-151-010, of a licensed shooting range facility, or a shooting range patron of a licensed shooting range facility, while at the licensed shooting range facility.