Two weeks after the Highland Park parade shooting, Illinois State Police made an emergency rule change to how FOID card applications are processed.
Director of the Illinois State Police Brendan Kelly said the aim of the new enforcement tool is to better prevent guns from landing in the hands of people who have previously threatened violence. Now, ISP officers will be able to consider historic clear and present danger filings from law enforcement when reviewing future FOID applications.
Highland Park police said when Robert Crimo III opened fire from a downtown rooftop on the fourth of July, they had paperwork naming Crimo in their files in a"clear and present danger" report from September 2019. The report, which was submitted to the Illinois State Police, described how Crimo stated"he was going to kill everyone" in his home.
Under state regulations at the time, the 2019 clear and present danger report naming Crimo wasn't a roadblock. Kelly said it's not clear if this rule change would have impacted whether Crimo was approved for a FOID card, but it could have allowed ISP officers to ask more questions about his application.
"Now the state police will look at something that may have happened two years earlier, three years earlier, four years earlier and make it clear they're entitled to do that when they make the decision about whether to deny or revoke a firearm," said ABC7 legal analyst Gil Soffer.
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