Illinois Gun Owners win big: IL Supreme Court says glove box is a case.
Ill. high court rules built-in storage boxes legal for carrying guns in cars
(AP) - The Illinois Supreme Court says gun owners can carry weapons in the ordinary storage boxes built into their cars.
The question was whether a compartment for items like CDs and sunglasses also meets the legal definition of a “case” for carrying guns. Illinois law lets people carry guns in their cars so long as they are stored in a case or other container.
The court ruled Thursday that a car’s storage box is good enough. Read the opinion (pdf).
The ruling was prompted by a Peoria case in which a man had been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for carrying two pistols in his car’s storage compartment.
October 9th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Your organization had previously explored the use of a “fanny pack” case to carry an unloaded pistol as being legal in Illinois. A number of local States Attorneys cited ambiguity in the definition of a “case” in order to scare people from using a fanny pack to carry a pistol with them. In reading the Supreme Court decision in people vs Diggins, there is no longer ANY ambiguity is the definition of a “case”. IANAL, but between yesterday’s decision and the law signed by Governor Quin last month, I as a layman can not find anything in the plain reading of the law that would prohibit anyone with a valid FOID card from carrying an unloaded weapon along with ammo in a fanny pack “case”. I hope your organization will investigate how the recent law, and people vs Diggins applys to fanny pack carry in Illinois.
October 15th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
Does the glove box or console have to be lockable; my vehicles does not.