Three years after the deadly mass shooting at Henry Pratt Company in Aurora – after which it was revealed that the gunman’s Firearm Owner’s Identification card had been revoked five years earlier – the state of Illinois is still grappling with efforts to get weapons out of the hands of people who are not allowed to have them.
ISP Director Brendan Kelly said the agency revoked a total of 17,457 FOID cards last year, which was 70% more than in 2019. He added that the number of people who obeyed the rules last year and actually surrendered their cards was at an all-time high of 5,364.
"We are doing everything we can with the tools we have, the growing number of tools that we have, to keep firearms out of their hands," Kelly said."We’ll work with anybody, whether they are anti-gun, whether they are pro-gun, we are gonna work with anybody on this issue to try to make sure we are keeping people safe."
But not everyone who breaks the law gets a knock on the door. Kelly said it's necessary to make judgment calls and concentrate on those who pose the greatest risk. "Well, that's one of the gaps that exists in our system," Kelly said."That's certainly one of the weak links in the overall firearm safety regime. But that's something that the legislature is going to have to change, if we want to place those firearms with someone who is not in the same household."
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