Poll Claims Illinois Voters Back Mental Health Checks Before Gun Purchases

By Tom Knighton

Right now, especially in a state like Illinois, it’s not particularly easy to purchase a firearm. Not really.

First, you have to get a Firearm Owners Identification Card which has a whole list of things you have to do in order to receive it. Then you have to go to the gun store and jump through all the federal hoops which mirror what you with through for the FOID. All so you can then drop a few hundred bucks on a firearm.

However, a recent poll suggests that Illinois residents think guns should be even harder to get.

Illinois residents across the state, and across party lines, largely support more gun regulations. That’s according to the results of an NPR Illinois – University of Illinois Springfield survey. We took a look at the new data and explored what might be behind the numbers.

Gun violence has touched all areas of the country, including here in Illinois. Less than a year ago, a mass shooting in Aurora, combined with high profile shootings in other states, re-opened the gun debate in Illinois.

There have been renewed calls for more statewide firearm restrictions, but nothing major became law this year. So when researchers polled likely …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms