Majority Of Revoked FOID Cards Not Returned: IL State Police

ACROSS ILLINOIS -- Fewer than one-third of FOID cards that were revoked in 2018 were surrendered, Illinois State Police said Friday in a news release. The news comes exactly one week after five people were killed at Henry Pratt Manufacturing in Aurora by a shooter whose FOID card had been revoked in 2014.

Additionally, more than 75 percent of card holders in Illinois who were notified that their FOID was revoked failed to complete a required firearm disposition record, state police said.

“The only way we can honor those who died - the only way we will ever be safer- is to shine the brightest light on the good, bad, and ugly of this system and to lay bare for the public and policymakers the depth and breadth of our vulnerabilities,” ISP Acting Director Brendan F. Kelly said in a statement.

In 2018, 10,818 FOID cards were revoked throughout the state. From among these, state police received 3,469 revoked FOID cards and 2,616 firearm disposition records.

State police records showed that fewer than 1 percent of people who failed to return a revoked FOID card or firearm disposition record were prosecuted between 2014 and 2019. In this time period, only 110 people were arrested for failing to comply.

In Kane County, 347 FOID cards were revoked in 2018. In DuPage County, 489 were revoked, in Kendall County, 98 cards were revoked, and in Will County, 590. In Cook County, 3,610 FOID cards were revoked in 2018.

In 2018, ISP officials say a total of 10 people were arrested throughout Illinois for failing to return a FOID card or firearm disposition record.

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