Illinois Police Recover Stolen Guns. No Mention of FOIDs

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File

In Illinois, it’s illegal to obtain a firearm without first getting a Firearm Owner’s Identification (FOID) Card. To get this, you must go through a background check, then you get to do that all over again when you purchase the gun. The first check is state law, the second is federal law, and neither stopped a convicted felon of getting a gun and shooting up his former place of employment in Aurora, Illinois.

Recently, police in Marion County recovered some stolen firearms.

Marion Police Department Narcotics Unit officers and an ERT team served a search warrant on a home on South Duncan Street on Tuesday afternoon.

They recovered more than a dozen stolen guns found inside the home.

Do you know what wasn’t mentioned at all? A FOID.

It’s almost like criminals broke the law! Can you believe it? This is shocking. I mean, can you believe that criminals would break the law?

Did they not know they were supposed to get a FOID before stealing a gun?

Between this and the shooting in Aurora, it looks like requiring a FOID doesn’t accomplish a whole hell of a lot, now does it?

The poor schlubs whose guns were stolen? I’m sure they …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms