SUBSTJIUIE ORDINANCE
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:
SECTION 1. Chapter 4-144 of the Municipal Code is hereby amended by adding a new Article VI, sections 4-144-400 through and including 4-144-470, and by adding the language underscored, as follows:
4-144-010 License - Required.
It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the business of selling or otherwise transferring any ammunition, stun gun or taser without securing a weapons dealer license to do so. For purposes of this section "stun gun" and "taser" have the meaning ascribed to those terms in 720 ILCS 5/24-1 (aH10).
ARTICLE VI. Professional Firearm Curators.
4-144-400 Definitions.
For purposes of this Article, the following definitions apply:
"Collector" and "Curio or relic firearm" have the meaning ascribed to those terms in 27 CFR 478.11 or as listed on the United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Alcohol. Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' Firearms Curios or Relics List, AFT Publication 5300.11. as amended.
"FOID" has the same meaning ascribed to that term in section 8-20-010.
"Professional firearm curator" means a person who:
(1) (i) is a public museum that is eligible to receive funds for capital
development under subsection 1-25(7) of the Department of Natural Resources Act. 20
ILCS 801/1-25: or
(ii) is a bona fide Illinois non-profit corporation that is a museum operating for the purpose of acguiring, conserving, preserving, studying, interpreting, or enhancing historical material for educational or scientific purposes and has continuously for a period of not less than 5 years prior to the date of application exhibited specimens, artifacts, articles, documents and other things of historical, anthropological, archaeological, industrial or scientific import to the public for its instruction and enjoyment; and
(2) has been issued a federal firearms collector's license; and
(3) has a location in the city at which curio or relic firearms are exhibited to the
public for...
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