FOID Card

The manager of an O’Reilly Auto Parts store in the Chicago neighborhood of Calumet Heights shot and killed an alleged armed robber around 2:30 p.m. Saturday afternoon.

The suspect arrested Monday evening in connection with the Highland Park July 4 parade attack has confessed to carrying out the heinous act and to considering a second attack in Wisconsin. 

Lake County State’s Attorney Eric Rinehart announced charges against the Highland Park shooting suspect and then pushed for gun controls that already exist in Illinois and Highland Park.

The shooting suspect in the Highland Park July 4th parade attack possessed an Illinois Firearm Owners Identification (FOID) card, enabling him to legally purchase guns in the state.

Illinois Circuit Judge T. Scott Webb ruled against Illinois’ Firearm Owners Identification (FOID) card requirement on Tuesday.

Illinois saw a 167 percent surge in applications for Firearm Owner’s Identification (FOID) cards through November this year as compared to 2017 numbers.

Illinois State Rep. Kathleen Willis (D) is pushing a 400 percent price increase for the Firearm Owners Identification (FOID) cards law-abiding citizens need to acquire a gun.

Police say the man who opened fire in the gun-free Henry Pratt Company facility in Aurora, Illinois, had his Firearm Owner’s Identification (FOID) card revoked and possessed his gun illegally.

A bill being pushed by State Rep. Daniel Didech (D-Buffalo Grove) would require gun license applicants to submit to a background check of their social media posts.

Police in the Chicago suburb of Midlothian allegedly shot and killed a security guard who had stopped a bar shooting and was holding a suspect at gunpoint.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D) is responding to the failure of gun control in Chicago by encouraging Illinois residents to urge Gov. Bruce Rauner (R) to institute more gun control.

Chicago Police Department released body cam footage of an officer fatally shooting an armed man Saturday on the city’s South Side.

Nashville Mayor David Briley (D) demanded more gun control laws after a man, who had his firearms seized in 2017, opened fire on an Antioch, Tennessee, Waffle House.

Gun-controlled Chicago surpassed 600 homicides for a calendar year for only the second time since 2003.

Over the weekend, police say a Chicago homeowner shot and killed three people “after they broke into his home.”

On June 15–the day after the attack on GOP House and Senate members in Alexandria–the New York Times noted that Illinois’ strict gun control laws did not prevent the attacker from acquiring guns.

The number of concealed carry permits issued to Chicago residents was up nearly 50 percent in 2016 compared to 2015.

When police searched the home of Donald F. Franz in Crystal Lake, Illinois, they found “56 handguns,” an unspecified number of long guns, and “thousands of rounds of ammunition.”

A Chicago journalist dedicated to investigating the ease with which one can acquire an AR-15 had his purchase denied based on a “domestic battery” charge uncovered by the gun store.