{"id":1703318,"date":"2022-10-20T07:39:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T11:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1703318"},"modified":"2022-10-20T10:03:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T14:03:46","slug":"timothy-sandefur-second-amendment-shoots-down-the-illinois-bureaucracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/timothy-sandefur-second-amendment-shoots-down-the-illinois-bureaucracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Timothy Sandefur: Second Amendment Shoots Down the Illinois Bureaucracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftimothy-sandefur-second-amendment-shoots-down-the-illinois-bureaucracy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1703318&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s note: This piece was co-authored by Joe Setyon.<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" id=\"isPasted\">D\u2019Andre Bradley was a Marine veteran who served his country honorably for five years. But when he wanted to defend his Chicago-area home and family amid widespread violence and looting, the state of Illinois\u2019 bureaucratic apparatus deprived him of his constitutional right to bear arms.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Two years later, Chicago still has a tragic violent crime problem. But thanks to a lawsuit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldwaterinstitute.org\/marine-sues-illinois-for-second-amendment-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">filed on D\u2019Andre\u2019s behalf<\/a>, the state government will no longer be able to use excessive bureaucratic delays to stop law-abiding citizens from exercising their Second Amendment rights.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Illinois has a long-standing requirement that residents who want to purchase or even possess a firearm of any kind must first obtain what\u2019s called a Firearm Owners Identification, or FOID, card. And under state law,\u00a0Illinois State Police are also required to grant or deny a FOID card application within 30 days. The problem is, officials have for years treated the 30-day rule like more of a suggestion than a mandate, ignoring the deadline, and taking inordinate amounts of time to process FOID card applications. In fact, as of late 2020, the average wait time to receive a FOID card was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldwaterinstitute.org\/court-goldwater-challenge-to-illinois-gun-permit-delays-may-proceed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">122 days<\/a>, more than quadruple what the law mandates. For many law-abiding citizens, it was even worse, stretching from months into years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In practice, this means Illinoisans who simply want to defend their property, their loved ones, and their own lives can\u2019t do so. Yet the onerous bureaucratic logjam doesn\u2019t stop criminal elements from getting their hands on firearms. Chicago, one of the most violent cities in the country, saw more than 3,561 shootings and 797 murders in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/home.chicagopolice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/CompStat-Public-2021-Year-End.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2021<\/a>, and an additional 2,255 shootings and 528 murders in the first nine months-plus of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/home.chicagopolice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1_PDFsam_CompStat-Public-2022-Week-41.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2022<\/a>, according to Chicago Police Department statistics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In July 2020\u2014amid a summer when Chicago was overtaken by violent riots\u2014the Goldwater Institute\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldwaterinstitute.org\/case\/protecting-illinoisans-right-to-defend-themselvesbradley-v-kelly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sued the state of Illinois<\/a> on behalf of D\u2019Andre and three other-Chicago-area residents, challenging the government\u2019s refusal to process applications for firearm licenses in a timely manner, as it is required to do under state law. And now, after two years, we\u2019ve secured Illinoisans\u2019 Second Amendment rights.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Earlier this month, the state\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldwaterinstitute.org\/second-amendment-victory-in-illinois-thanks-to-goldwater\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">finally agreed<\/a> to fix its firearm licensing apparatus by ramping up its processing system and clearing the backlog that was preventing Illinoisans from obtaining firearms. Now, Illinoisans won\u2019t have to wait months and even years to get their gun license applications processed. They\u2019ll be able to better defend themselves\u2014not languish at the mercy of a bloated bureaucracy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s a victory for the Second Amendment, but it\u2019s also a reminder that governments at levels use licensing regulations\u2014whether they apply to guns or anything else\u2014to take away people\u2019s basic rights. Sometimes they impose meaningless standards like \u201cgood cause\u201d that require people to prove they need a \u201cspecial need\u201d to exercise their rights\u2014like the unconstitutional New York state gun law that the U.S. Supreme Court recently\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldwaterinstitute.org\/supreme-court-upholds-self-defense-rights-against-the-permission-society\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">struck down<\/a>. Other times, as in Illinois, they give bureaucrats the power to indefinitely delay any answer when citizens apply for permits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Endless delays and refusal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s note: This piece was co-authored by Joe Setyon. D\u2019Andre Bradley was a Marine veteran who served his country honorably for five years. But when he wanted to defend his Chicago-area home and family amid widespread violence and looting, the state of Illinois\u2019 bureaucratic apparatus deprived him of his constitutional right to bear arms. 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