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Gun Control & RKBA

Straw Man

(6,776 posts)

6. As per the article ...

Reply to sarisataka (Original post)

Tue May 4, 2021, 04:50 PM

May 2021

Last edited Thu May 6, 2021, 12:15 AM - Edit history (2)

... Illinois stats were skewed by a backlog in the state's FOID system: Firearm Owners Identification -- a sort of "gun buyer's license". When the backlog was cleared, a huge number of sales that were on hold were able to proceed. In other words, this doesn't indicate that Illinois gun buyers were markedly more avid than those in other states.