“...Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said today he has asked the Illinois State Police to enter blanket objections for anyone with a domestic violence, gun possession or gang arrest in the past seven years...Dart said under state law the threshold for denying the permit is if an applicant has five arrests in seven years or three arrests for gang offenses...”
The last time I looked at ATF Form 4473, it had a few questions that might be relevant to this discussion.
11b....are you under indictment
11c....have you ever been convicted
11d....are you a fugitive from justice
11e....are you an unlawful user or addicted to
11h....are you subject to a restraining order
11i....have you ever been convicted of in any court of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence
So Sheriff Dart, just how can someone who has been arrested for domestic violence, gun possession or gang activity legally get their hands on a handgun?
Oh, of course, if they have been acquitted!
So obviously, your concern Sheriff is with people who have been arrested, tried and found not guilty (remember question 11b). I mean the “gun control gold standard” is that every firearm transaction needs to use ATF Form 4473, as that will keep guns out of the hands of criminals and stop gun violence!
There could be no other explanation, unless you don't believe that universal background checks will stop gun violence.
(/sarcasm)
Yeah, what’s up? Those folks would normally be rejected anywhere, as far as I know.
Is Cook County approving such people?
Yeah, you have it right...
Reminds me of the mobsters who would have 25 arrests, but no convictions...