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Part of Illinois’ gun ban enacted last year includes a registry
of banned items. Before the Jan. 1 deadline to register, nearly
30,000 Illinsoians registered banned firearms with the state.
That’s about 1.22% of the state’s 2.4 million Firearm Owners ID
card holders.
Guns Save Life Executive Director John Boch said there could be
efforts on the horizon implemented to confiscate firearms that
were registered following a mass casualty event.
“Existing people who have dutifully followed the registration
requirement of the law are given 90 days to surrender those
firearms and accessories to police, or they face an additional
felony charge,” Boch told The Center Square was leaked to him.
While Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s office denied similar assertions
raised elsewhere with a comment to ABC 20, Pritzker last month
did address why he approved a banned gun registry.
“We wanna make sure that you know where those very, very deadly
weapons are, who owns them, when and if a crime is committed
with one of them,” Pritzker said.
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