The Witness Slips were opened in just the last few hours for SB1966 HOUSE AMENDMENT ONE
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Dan Eldridge did a nice job summarizing where the various agencies within the Illinois criminal justice system failed in allowing the Aurora mass murderer to get a gun, to keep his gun, and to carry out his terrible crime. It’s over at The Truth About Guns.
The tragic mass murder of five in Aurora, Illinois earlier this year has exactly nothing to do with law-abiding Illinois gun owners and everything to do with cascading failures by local, state, and federal government workers who failed use the tools they already have to keep firearms out of the hands of felons.
Rep. Willis’s response to government failure is: more government!
WHERE THE BALL WAS DROPPED:
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Federal 1: failure to ensure NICS background check data was comprehensive
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Federal 2: failure to prosecute perjury on 4473 form
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State 1: (Mississippi): failure to report felony conviction by this offender to NICS
The story I got from the NSSF was that Mississippi had reported the felony conviction and incarceration of the killer to NICS.
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State 2: (Illinois): failure to prosecute perjury on FOID application by this offender
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State 3: (Illinois): failure to prosecute perjury on CCL application by this offender
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Local 1: (Oswego): state’s attorney failed to query for firearms when offender bonded out on another charge
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Local 2: (City of Aurora): failed to follow-up on Illinois State Police FOID and CCW revocation
These are all felonies that could have been reported to the State’s Attorney’s office for warrants and prosecution, but they weren’t. So let’s punish law-abiding gun owners to cure government failure?
This isn’t a problem with the FOID card. This is a problem with Illinois’ soft-on-violent criminals criminal justice system.
This is a problem with people like Kathleen Willis.
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