I don't know that ANY state allows 13yr old kids to "own" any firearm, let alone a handgun, but "ownership" is a loose term at that age. I "owned" around 40 firearms on my 18th birthday, half of them handguns.

Most states respect the parent's rights to purchase firearms for their children, regardless of age, as does the FED. i.e. purchasing a firearm for your under-aged child does not constitute a straw purchase.

BUT.....

I'd venture that IL is more strict than most states, especially when it comes to handguns, but in KS, we could legally hunt solo at the age of 12, but I believe had to be 18 before we can possess a handgun without parental supervision, and this was ONLY under certain conditions - shooting competition or hunting, or the active practice of such, or in transportation to or from.

I didn't put 2 and 2 together about your age nor location in some of your other threads, regarding the .410 or .22mag for coyotes threads, for example. IL has very strict, and frankly, strange laws about what you can hunt with and where, so please keep that in mind as you take advice for what to buy or to hunt with, as what's legal in most areas may not be legal in yours.

So all that said, IL may not allow hunting with centerfire handguns in many areas, may not allow solo hunting with or possession of a handgun by an unsupervised minor-child at all, etc etc.

How are you getting to and from hunting on your own at 13? I was fortunate to live near my hunting spots so I could ride horseback or ATV to get to my hunting spots until I got a "farm permit" at 14. When I hunted with a handgun from 14-18yrs old, the hunting and transporting wasn't actually legal. I got pulled over a couple times, luckily in rural America at that time, a kid having a gun in their car in case they saw coyotes while feeding calves in the mornings was still a legitimate reason.