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Gun laws in Illinois regulate the sale, possession, and use of firearms and ammunition in the state of Illinois in the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] To legally possess firearms or ammunition, Illinois residents must have a Firearm Owners Identification (FOID) card , which is issued by the Illinois State Police on a shall-issue basis.
Whether a jurisdiction follows stand-your-ground or duty-to-retreat is just one element of its self-defense laws. Different jurisdictions allow deadly force against different crimes. All American states allow it against prior deadly force, great bodily injury, and likely kidnapping or rape; some also allow it against threat of robbery and burglary.
Gun laws in the United States regulate the sale, possession, and use of firearms and ammunition.State laws (and the laws of the District of Columbia and of the U.S. territories) vary considerably, and are independent of existing federal firearms laws, although they are sometimes broader or more limited in scope than the federal laws.
Over the past 30 years, a majority of states have enacted “stand your ground” laws that allow deadly force to be used even when other options might be available.
Some states have adopted a "forcible felony rule", under which police are only authorized to use deadly force to apprehend people suspected of forcible felonies. [1] Prior to the Supreme Court's 1985 decision in Tennessee v. Garner, this was a minority position, and many states authorized deadly force to apprehend any fleeing felon. [2]
Experts say the police shootings, two of hundreds across the U.S. each year, underscore the prevalent use of deadly force by law enforcement despite widespread de-escalation standards.
Deadly force, also known as lethal force, is the use of force that is likely to cause serious bodily injury or death to another person. In most jurisdictions, the use of deadly force is justified only under conditions of extreme necessity as a last resort , when all lesser means have failed or cannot reasonably be employed.
When the use of deadly force is involved in a self-defense claim, the person must also reasonably believe that their use of deadly force is immediately necessary to prevent the other's infliction of great bodily harm or death. [3] Most states no longer require a person to retreat before using deadly force. In the minority of jurisdictions which ...