Owners Of Revoked Illinois FOID Cards Must Give Up Their Guns. Fewer Than Half Do.
BELLEVILLE In Illinois, when people have their firearms owners identification (FOID) cards revoked, theyre supposed to turn them in to law enforcement and surrender their guns. But that only happened less than half of the time in the Metro East and statewide during the last four years.
In St. Clair County, FOID cards were returned just under 36% of the time after they were revoked from 2015-18, according to Illinois State Police data obtained by the Belleville News-Democrat.
Madison County was a little better, at 41%, while statewide cards were turned in 37% of the time during the four-year period.
When the Madison County Sheriffs Department is notified by the State Police that someone has had their FOID card revoked, the department sends a letter to the cardholder to surrender their card and weapons within 48 hours.
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