Aurora Shooter's FOID Card: Cops Find No Notice Of Revocation

AURORA, IL — Aurora Police say they have not yet found any record that they were notified when Henry Pratt shooter Gary Martin's FOID card was revoked in 2014. The news comes after Illinois State Police released a detailed timeline of the shooter's FOID card revocation and announced that they are looking into why the .40-caliber Smith and Wesson handgun used in the deadly Feb. 15 shooting was never surrendered.

In its statement, Illinois State Police said the shooter was notified in 2014 that his FOID card was revoked, after a fingerprint check for a conceal and carry permit revealed a prior felony aggravated assault conviction in Mississippi. ISP said local police would have been notified electronically via the LEADS system and that the shooter would have received a letter in the mail prompting him to surrender his FOID card and any firearms in his possession to local police.

In a press briefing Tuesday, Sgt. Bill Rowley confirmed that the Aurora Police Department has no record of receiving notification that the shooter's FOID card was revoked. "That's not to say that we didn't get [a notification] back in 2014," Rowley said, explaining that notification would have been in the form of something similar to an email.

Rowley called any notice of revocation "a courtesy from state police" and added that unless there is an "immediate threat," such notification is "not sufficient to search somebody or somebody’s home.”

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Image via City of Aurora, screenshot from press briefing