Registration Leads To Confiscation
The Illinois State Police suffered a serious black eye as a result of the Aurora killing spree killing. The shooter committed a whole slew of felonies long before the ISP granted him a Firearms Owners ID card. Then, days later, they approved a firearm purchase.
Eventually, the ISP realized their mistake and revoked his FOID card, but nobody followed up on the revocation. The killer ignored the letter demanding that he surrender his freshly-cancelled FOID card and divest himself of his firearms.
Now, as of yesterday morning, the Illinois State Police have announced new policies and procedures, to include using Illinois’ de facto gun registration system to help police confiscate firearms from gun owners with revoked FOID cards.
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