When a shooting occurs in McHenry County and someone dies, isn't it usually mentioned that the person doing the shooting holds a FOID card? Wouldn't this indicate to readers that the person was legally entitled to be in possession of a firearm and ammunition?
Two shootings occurred within ten days of one another and, to my knowledge, there has been no mention of a FOID card in either incident.
On May 28 Timothy S. Smith shot and fatally wounded Kurt Milliman in McHenry County. The Sheriff's Department has not revealed whether Smith possessed a FOID card. Since he has not been charged with violating FOID card requirements, should one assume that he held a valid FOID card?
On June 7 Scott Feldkamp shot and killed Daron Bloom, 27, as Feldkamp defended his parents and himself, according to stories in the Northwest Herald. An initial newspaper report indicated he was "visiting from Florida", although I have heard other reports that he moved back to Marengo in February or March. If Feldkamp was back in McHenry County since February or March and had brought his handgun from Florida, had he applied for a FOID card?
Nothing has been mentioned about FOID cards in either case.
After an initial flurry of press contacts in the Feldkamp case, information from the Sheriff's Department has dried up.
There never was an initial flurry of press contacts in the shooting death of Kurt Milliman. Sheriff Keith Nygren made no public statement and held no press conference that was open to local reporters from online media (blogs or electronic newspapers). In this case Timothy S. Smith is being held on a first-degree murder charge with a $900,000 bond. Smith is in custody in the McHenry County Jail.
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3 months ago
4 comments:
First of Gus, the FOID card Is a joke
of about 150,000 guns on the southside of Chicago how many FOID cards do think there are?
an interesting thought is how many gangbangers are charged with firearm possession without a FOID card.
I would like to know the answer on that one.
If someone is arrested for murder or aggravated battery with a weapon who cares if they have a FOID. FOID does not give you any right to carry and it just lists you as someone permited to own a gun or ammo. As Bill pointed out, how many times have you heard someone on the news say the shooter was also charged with no FOID or even mention the FOID? In fact in Chicago the police don't even check. Many in Chicago that own a gun never get a FOID. It targets them since Chicago is so anti gun.
Most the time if the media DOES mention it, which they seldom do. They call it a GUN PERMIT infering a permit to carry a gun.
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