A Cook County sheriff deputy chief told legislators that staffing shortages have prevented his department from collecting revoked FOID cards.
Cook County sheriff's Investigators Michael Ware, left, and Dimas Hernandez in 2019 call on a Riverdale resident whose FOID card was revoked.
Illinois residents must possess a valid FOID card to make legal gun purchases. But just because someone has a FOID card — attainable by passing a criminal-background check — doesn’t mean they own a firearm. It’s not clear how many FOID cardholders in the state actually own guns but as of July 1, 19,508 Cook County residents had not turned in their revoked FOID cards, officials said.
In one of the calls, Crimo allegedly threatened family members, and authorities also learned that Crimo was suicidal. His behavior was reported by Highland Park police to state police and flagged as being potentially a “clear and present danger,” a designation that could allow the state police to deny or revoke a FOID card.
The department is working with the state police to secure funding for extra teams of officers, or at least for more overtime, to focus on FOID card revocations and gun retrievals, he said.“There are so many out there, we don’t have enough manpower to actually retrieve everything the way that we would like to at this time,” he said, referring to revoked FOID cards.
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