Republican lawmakers, gun enthusiasts and Illinois State Police agree: The state's system for keeping firearms out of dangerous hands is broken. According to state police who issue firearm permits, average waiting times for firearm owner identification (FOID) cards have stretched to four months; under state law, cards, which are required to purchase guns and ammunition, are supposed to be issued within 30 days. The average wait for a concealed weapons permit, state police say, is 145 days. "These outcomes are unacceptable to ISP," the agency says in a recent press release. ISP director Brendan Kelly, a former downstate Democratic prosecutor, is calling for an overhaul of the state's gun permitting laws, long a target of conservatives.