Illinois FOID Reform On Hold

[SSL]

The Illinois State Senate failed, for this session, to bring the bill to a vote to raise FOID cost to double the cost while reducing the period covered from 10 to 5 years. This would also have required fingerprinting and a lengthy "enhanced" background check; all costs to be passed on to the applicant.

While I do believe that law enforcement needs to do a better job of enforcing existing laws concerning purchases and control over persons whose FOIDs have been suspended due to criminal activity, spousal abuse or other offenses, I see the proposed changes as only another way to make legal ownership of firearms more difficult with an eye on impossible and providing the state with additional funding to waste as usual.

Besides, I wasn't happy about the prospect of my wife and me having to go get fingerprinted and stand in the long lines caused by the thousands of gangbangers, street thugs, career criminals, psychopaths and other slime from Chicago, Rockford, Peoria, Aurora, East St. Louis and various other havens who will magically be persuaded to get their FOID card because of a new law.

Oh, wait...they don't comply with the current law, so why this one? Must only be us law-abiding people that are a risk.

 

[pirate ammo]

Well you know,we are one dangerous group of people.

Must only be us law-abiding people that are a risk.

 

[PatMiles]

Not to mention that this is a way for the fiscally conservative politicians in Illinois to rake in some additional $$$$ that they can squander. Twice the cost for half the time period, that sounds like a winner!

 

[tmwinds]

So in Illinois you have to be approved by and pay the state in order to exercise your Second Amendment Rights? How much do First Amendment Rights cost?

 

[fatelvis]

So in Illinois you have to be approved by and pay the state in order to exercise your Second Amendment Rights? How much do First Amendment Rights cost?

I love that question. I hope you don't mind if I steal it, and use it myself!

 

[mongo chicago]

In Illinois, you only have rights if you support the democratic party line. Sound familiar anyone???

 

[tmwinds]

I love that question. I hope you don't mind if I steal it, and use it myself!

Go right ahead. I can feel your pain. Back in the early 90's I lived in Illinois for about 3 or 4 years. In a rural community about 60 miles south of Chicago, Kankakee, Il. We had the FOID requirements back then which was quite a shock after moving from Alabama where we basically have no gun laws. The greater Chicago area pretty much controls the politics in the state and we can see how well their gun laws and requirements work as witnessed by the low gun crime rate in South Chicago.

 

[mike06]

Born and raised there escaped in 1982.

 

[Bill K]

Sad that the states enforce the laws and keep coming out with new one's to control lawful and legal gun owners, but can not seem to focus and enforce the laws that the criminals break every hour in various crimes, let alone the present gun laws and law on murder.