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Imagine if all it took to reduce the soaring number of shootings and homicides in Chicago was a little more gun control. It seems pretty silly, given that the vast majority of individuals committing violent crimes in the city aren’t legal gun owners to begin with, but Illinois gun control activist Kathleen Sances, who runs the Gun Violence Prevention PAC Illinois, swears that if Democrats in control of the statehouse in Springfield just pass one piece of legislation, things will start to turn around in the city.
That piece of legislation is cynically called the Fix the FOID Act, though it doesn’t offer much actual improvement to the fundamentally flawed law that requires all residents to obtain a Firearms Owner ID card before they can legally possess a firearm. Instead, it raises the fees for those hoping to exercise their Second Amendment rights, while treating them like criminals by making them provide fingerprints to the state police. According to
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The state of Illinois is one of just a handful across the country that require a permit to possess a gun in the home and provides criminal penalties for those who are caught with a firearm, but that law took a hit on Tuesday when a Circuit Court judge ruled that the state’s Firearm Owner ID card is unconstitutional, at least when it comes to keeping arms in your residence.
The case of
Illinois v. Vivian Claudine Brown been in the state court system for several years, now, and today’s decision is actually the