CHICAGO (WLS) -- New legislation introduced late Wednesday afternoon in Springfield would, for the first time, require gun owners to be fingerprinted. Under the proposal, a Firearm Owners ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (NEXSTAR) — A circuit court judge ruled on Tuesday that the Firearm Owners’ Identification Card requirement in state law “goes too far” and “makes criminals out of law-abiding ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — A plan in Springfield could allow anyone charged with their first weapon-related offense to apply for a FOID card while they participate in a pretrial diversion program.

WHITE COUNTY, Ill. (KFVS) - A southern Illinois judge has ruled parts of the state’s FOID Card Act are unconstitutional. White County Judge T. Scott Webb issued the ruling on Monday, February 10. A ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — State representatives passed legislation Friday to allow anyone charged with their first weapon-related offense to apply for a FOID card while they participate in a pretrial ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The gunman in Aurora should not have had a gun, and now Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart wants to close loopholes in the FOID card system. Illinois State Police said that the vast ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WTVO) — The Illinois Supreme Court ruled the state can revoke a person’s firearm owner identification (FOID) card if that person has been charged with a felony. The high court ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois Supreme Court last week vacated a lower court ruling and reinstated a statute that authorizes the state to revoke a person’s Firearm Owners Identification card once ...

When we told readers last week that we supported both the release the names of Illinois Firearm Owner Identification (FOID) cardholders and a strictly drawn concealed-carry gun law for Illinois, we ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. AURORA, Ill. — Felony charges have been ...