What is carrying a concealed firearm charge?
Before July 2023, this charge typically meant carrying without a license. Now it generally means carrying while not eligible to carry at all.
Who that covers: people under 21, prohibited persons including convicted felons and those subject to qualifying injunctions, and people carrying in prohibited locations.
The elements the State must prove are knowing possession and concealment — that the firearm was carried on or about the person in a manner concealed from ordinary sight.
Contestable points: whether the firearm was actually concealed as opposed to visible, whether it was on or about the person as opposed to securely encased in a vehicle, whether the person knew it was there, and whether the person actually falls within a prohibited category.
That last point matters more than people assume. Prior convictions get mischaracterized, out-of-state dispositions are misread, and injunction status gets recorded incorrectly.
Verify the prior actually disqualifies you. Records are wrong more often than expected. ---
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