A man with a revoked gun license killed his 18-month-old son in Joliet. Here’s how he and thousands of others slipped through the system.

Chicago Tribune ^ | 14 fwb 2020 | Stacy St. Clair, Cecilia Reyes, Annie Sweeney and Sarah Freishtat

[rellimpank]

--bureaucratic failure---

[Lurker]

In the meantime CCL renewals are running 90-120 days.

L

[rktman]

Solution———Restrict responsible firearm owners more?

[marktwain]

The idea that you can keep guns from "bad guys" by restricting gun sales, is a fantasy.

It does not work and has never worked.

In this case, does the writer really believe the murder would have been prevented by the police asking the murderer if he still had his guns?

[Veggie Todd]

But....but....we passed a law!!

[DoughtyOne]

Open warfare on it’s streets, and this is what the Tribune addresses?

This is a one-of type situation. It will be addressed.

How about focusing on the tens of people wounded and some killed each freaking weekend.

This in a city with tough gun control measures in place.

It isn’t working. The Leftist gun grab is broke. Admit it.

[rellimpank]

-—I skipped my usual “barf alert”—thought I was pretty close to the limit on titles—

[stylin19a]

mom got it right

“A gun didn’t kill my son,” Tanner Miller said. “A criminal who was not supposed to have a gun anymore killed him.”

[txnativegop]

first off, no citizen requires a license to own a gun, that is Illinois ignorance right there.

[Brilliant]

Do they license guns in Chicago?

[rktman]

Titles no longer require truncating to fit. Guessing the drugs in the assclowns system aren’t being factored in to the event? Good thing he didn’t have an axe or chain saw or something even more dangerouser than a gun.

[rktman]

How much money you got? Because who you know and pay could decide if you get a permit.

[LurkedLongEnough]

encouraging that focus is drifting more towards hard questions about known felons with guns

[spudville]

guy had a gun he wasn’t supposed to have while on cocain that is illegal, and drunk. Did the ex have a restraining order too? Yup sounds like more gun laws would have stopped this guy.

[Campion]

Illinois licenses gun owners, not guns per se.

[OttawaFreeper]

I recall a story up here in the Great White North in which a man in Quebec was given a firearms prohibition order and that his gun collection was supposedly confiscated by police following his being in trouble for violent behaviour towards his wife. A short while later, he marched into the women’s shelter where the wife was staying with a gun that he either borrowed from a friend or that he hid from police and proceeded to shoot her to death in front of the terrified shelter worker.

The columnist (a woman, IIRC) who wrote about this story summed it up as “he didn’t give a damn about the law”.

[traderrob6]

Remedy for not enforcing existing gun laws on the books......Legislate additional gun control laws.

[yarddog]

It would have been so much better if he had used a blunt instrument, knife, axe, fire, his hands etc?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The idea that you can keep guns from "bad guys" by restricting gun sales, is a fantasy.

That's just not true.

All we had to do to eliminate the scourge of drug addiction and trafficking is to outlaw drugs.

It would be the same with guns.

When, oh when, will we learn?

[BubbaBasher]

Here in Virginia they are piling on the gun laws but have struck down several proposed laws to increase the punishment for using a gun in a crime.

It’s not about reducing crime.