Gun lobbyists are fuming because the state police have been slow at processing FOID applications. State law requires that be accomplished in 30 days. But callers to the state police bureau that handles FOID cards get a recording that says it may take eight weeks. A gun owner is in technical violation of the law if his card expires before a new one arrives in the mail...Translation: We force you to comply with a process we can't perform, so it must be your fault.
Gun owners want better service? Hike the FOID card fee.
Tags: gun control
You know, Heinrich never had that problem back in the early 40's! He was able to process the paperwork with 'maximum' efficiency!
ReplyDeleteThink they need to go back and read the Nazi handbook! They are not good Germans, obviously! Vat has become of ze werld?
Thirty days to accomplish the task by state law. They are not doing so. How long does it take to sign and mail a card? 45 seconds? sound right? Not the applicants fault if they don't do the other work, but on the 28th day the 45 seconds should be invested in complying with the law.
ReplyDeleteIf they have broken the law, and obviously they have, shouldn't there be citations issued and charges laid?
Maybe the gun lobbyists would do better to recruit a downstate DA to issue citations and subpoenae to appear, to the State Police Commissioner, and all State Police personnel involved in the FOID approval process. If they don't appear, issue contempt of court bench warrants. I am sure they can find one that would do such, and knows a sympathetic judge that would appreciate a chance uphold the law and gain re-election, and he could do it for however many counts his district constituents have been harmed unlawfully by this delay.
Who knows? That could be a whole new ballgame. All it would take is some ....., you know.