Illinois sheriff's team working to seize guns from thousands in Illinois

[R. LaCasse]

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Illinois sheriff's team working to seize guns from thousands in Illinois


Sheriff's team working to seize guns from thousands in Illinois
FoxNews.com - Published July 28, 2013
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/07/28/sheriffs-team-working-to-seize-guns-from-thousands-in-illinois/?test=latestnews

An Illinois sheriff's team is crisscrossing the Chicago suburbs in an effort
to seize guns from thousands of people whose right to own a firearm has been
revoked, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.
According to the paper, more than 3,000 people in Cook County have failed to
surrender their revoked Firearm Owners Identification Card, or FOID, which
is required to legally buy guns or ammunition.
Sheriff Tom Dart said he thinks many of the 3,000 continue to possess
firearms.

The Chicago Police Department regularly conducts missions to recover revoked
FOID cards and take guns from the owners, but there wasn't a big push to do
the same thing in the suburbs until now, Dart reportedly told the paper.
"The system is broken," the sheriff said. "The system revokes cards, but the
guns are of no consequence. . . . Our strong hope is that we will eliminate
tragedies."
FOID cards are meant to protect the public from gun owners who suffer from
mental illness; felonies and protection orders also are grounds for the
state to revoke the holders' FOID cards. It's illegal to buy guns or
ammunition without one, the Sun-Times reports.

In one case, the team recovered more than 35 firearms, including four AR-15
assault rifles, from a suicidal man whose card was revoked. Many times, the
team gets the FOID card, but not the gun.
The State Police alert the sheriff's gun team every week to about 10 to 20
new FOID revocations in Cook County. The investigators then conduct a basic
probe into the gun purchasing histories of the people they intend to
contact. Then they knock on their doors.

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