Cook County sheriff’s team taking guns if FOID card is revoked

[SecularMotion]

A new Cook County Sheriff’s team is crisscrossing the suburbs to seize guns from thousands of people whose Firearm Owner’s Identification Cards have been revoked.

More than 3,000 people in Cook County have failed to surrender their revoked FOID cards to the state. Sheriff Tom Dart said he thinks many of them continue to possess firearms.

The Chicago Police Department conducts regular missions to recover revoked FOID cards and seize guns from the holders, but there wasn’t a concerted effort to do that in Cook County’s suburbs, Dart said.

“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.”

http://www.suntimes.com/21526485-761/cook-county-sheriffs-team-taking-guns-if-foid-card-is-revoked.html

[TheLion]

1. Just a question...

Do you, or the writer of that *article*, know WHY FOID cards are revoked?

Oh look, it turns out that the article DOES cover that:

>FOID cards are supposed to protect the public from dangerous people. Mental illness, felonies and protection orders are grounds for the state to revoke the cards from their holders. It’s illegal to buy guns or ammunition without one.<

Maybe, being way down in the middle of the article and all, you just didn't bother to read it.

Or maybe you're one of those nutcases who thinks that any nutcase, gangbanger, convicted felon, wife beater, or drug case should be allowed to walk around armed like Dirty Harry, and indeed that the state should LICENSE such scum.

[Eleanors38]

6. Thank goodness I'm not one of those "nut cases."

[SecularMotion]

9. Hi stalker

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=profile&uid=121292

[rl6214]

10. Did I respond to you?

Seems you are stalking me.

Whatever gets you off I guess.

[DonP]

2. His big push has seized 3 guns over the last three weeks.

Another solution that's more media oriented than actually addressing the thousands of guns currently used by gangs in Cook County and solving the problem of gang shootings.

I'm just guessing here, since none of the gang members have FOID cards, none of them are losing their guns.

[ileus]

3. IL where rights are issued for a fee.

[branford]

4. They have the time, money and people for this,

but are wailing and moaning that they don't have the manpower and resources to complete the background checks for concealed carry within the statutorily mandated time period under the new Illinois law.

At the rate their going, I expect Chicago will soon be making another large donation for legal fees and damages to the NRA and the Second Amendment Foundation.

[Eleanors38]

5. Well. I'm glad the police felt "rewarded" for finding three (3) guns in one day.

[rl6214]

7. Wait, I thought gun control zealots weren't going to confiscate guns

Or so we've been told suckular motion!

[Jenoch]

11. "FOID cards are supposed to protect the public from dangerous people."

I wonder how a little piece of plastic is supposed to accomplish all of that?

What happened to due process and the government stealing from citizens. I would think that even if someone had a FOID card that was revoked, that person would have the option of transferring ownship of their weapons to someone with an active FOID card.