"Your Honor, this here noozpaper articul says there weren't no law violated."
To legally possess or purchase firearms or ammunition, residents of the state of Illinois are required to have a FOID card.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOID_(firearms)
Note that sickoflibs & Freedom_Is_Not_Free have the right of it.
Illinois is not in the New Jersey Circle of Firearm Hell - but it's in the circle with Taxachusetts.
You can't even possess AMMO in SlaveIllinois without permission from the gruberment.
Curious why you say NJ is the worst. I have a license to own firearms in NJ and it wasn't that hard to get (Well, it sort of was, I had to have three letters from people not related to me to testify about my character) But once I had those the lady at the courthouse said "you left handgun unchecked, you may as well get that too because it's the same process and if you want it later you'll have to do this all over again". That may have been a trap (i.e. if I checked handgun my application would get sent for special processing and never be seen again) but if not it was like they wanted me to get a handgun. I didn't want one so I opted out and just kept it to long barrel firearms.
Well, the article was quoting a law enforcement officer.
Prohibitive ammunition taxes will be the next salvo in the gun control wars. Instead of making it illegal or unobtainable, they will simply make it unaffordable to anyone but the rich.