New Gun Ownership Advice

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>>34184379
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saged

Assuming you haven't been banned yet:
In Illinois you have to get a FOID to own a firearm and buy ammo. No age limit on buying gun food, but you have to be 18 to buy long guns and 21 to buy pistols. Your parents however can ***gift*** a rifle or pistol to you if you're underage, which is what mine did.

>>34186131
only parents?

>>34186223
Family.

>Any private (unlicensed) seller of a firearm who seeks to transfer a firearm to any unlicensed purchaser must, prior to transfer, contact the Department of State Police (DSP) with the transferee’s Firearm Owner’s Identification (FOID) Card number to determine the validity of the transferee’s FOID Card.1 The seller must await approval by DSP before transferring the firearm. Approvals issued by DSP for the purchase of a firearm are valid for 30 days.2

>Exceptions to this requirement include: 1) transfers as a bona fide gift to the transferor’s husband, wife, son, daughter, stepson, stepdaughter, father, mother, stepfather, stepmother, brother, sister, nephew, niece, uncle, aunt, grandfather, grandmother, grandson, granddaughter, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, or daughter-in-law;

>>34186223
Parents or legal guardians