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Every officer I know below the rank of Chief is in favor of law abiding citizens owning guns. Most officers I know do not have a problem with concealed carry either when the legal requirements are met. As has been explained already, the Chief of Police is going to be standing beside the mayor at a press conference and saying what he know he is to say….if he wants to keep his position that is.Indiana used to have a requirement that private exchanges of firearms be documented with a state form available at all state police posts (pre-internet days) but that was done away with when the current federal background check for sales by licensed dealers came into being. That doesn’t really add up for me and I wouldn’t mind seeing a similar requirement back into affect. I know that would burden exchanges within families and such so I’m not 100% sure on the best way to do that.My state is one of the few that allows temporary or permanent confiscation of firearms from a person believe to be a danger to himself or others and is the only state that allows officers to do so right now, and seek judicial blessing after the fact. We used it once in my city to take a guys guns who had set up with several guns, a rangefinder, and other equipment on the top floor of a parking garage overlooking a popular bar. A judge signed off temporarily the next day and permanently after further investigation into his recent actions, mental health, etc.I and most officers I know find that banning certain guns because of their scary or militaristic appearance or capability to shoot more times before taking 3 seconds to change magazines to be not only useless but ludicrous.EDIT: I’m really late on this but I just noticed this comment from 2018: “I’ll ask you the same question I ask everyone who comes up with this ridiculous statement about “law abiding citizens”. Given the chance should we have taken guns away from perpetrators of mass shootings BEFORE they carried out these horrific acts? Yes? How would we do that? Because right up to the point that they carried out these massacres they were law abiding citizens with no criminal record.”And here is my answer: How would you select those people BEFORE they carried out these horrific acts? The only constitutional way I can see to do that beyond the large number of laws we already have prohibiting people who have been adjudicated with dangerous mental problems or criminal records from buying guns (yes that’s already a law) and prohibiting someone else from buying a gun to give TO such a person with mental problems or a criminal record (yes that’s already a law) is to amend the constitution. So get busy on that instead of trying all these end-around runs. The people who don’t buy guns illegally and who don’t buy them to give to someone else illegally are what I consider “law abiding citizens.”

Gun laws in Illinois - WikipediaGun laws in Illinois go back to the time of prohibition (of alcohol) in the US. Chicago had a huge amount of gun violence and crime related to the illegal sale of alcohol and organized crime.Poverty is the main reason that Chicago has high violent crime. During the 50’s, Southern black families migrated to the North where the politics were more progressive and supposedly more inclusive, less racist. Chicago and Detroit promised more higher paying, middle class jobs than the mostly agricultural South. They were escaping a new form of black slavery, trying to find a way to move up in society. But Chicago (and Detroit) did not fulfill that promise. The housing projects that were built as homes for this new industrial middle class saw a lot of the middle class workers moving out in the 50’s and 60’s, leaving behind the poorer families. The south and west sides where the projects were built saw declines in industrial jobs and an increase in abandon factories and land. The projects were increasingly segregated from the rest of the city. Schools, housing and jobs were all inadequate to support this segregated population. Any investments in these neighborhoods were made to exploit the population, not to help it. Payday loans, check cashing, liquor stores/convenience shops became the only businesses in the area.Without jobs and crammed into inadequate housing, youths spent their time hanging out on the street, especially in the hot Chicago summers where the big concrete housing projects soaked up heat and became unbearable inside. Kids formed cliques, personal fights turned into fights between cliques. The cliques grew into gangs, established territories and customs, and became the work and family structure for unemployed youths. The gangs grew into extortion and protection rackets. The arrival of heroin and the crack epidemic gave the gangs an almost unlimited source of revenue. Gang bangers could become rich overnight by killing a rival. Smaller gangs consolidated into the larger established gangs. Gangs began wars over drug distribution territories. Personal slights caused rivalries that escalate into violence that goes on for years until all of the involved parties are either all crippled or dead. Anyone walking with, living with or riding in a car with one of the rivals is caught in this crossfire. Most of the victims are children and family members.It’s difficult for a gang banger to walk into a store in Chicago or in the suburbs and buy a gun. All shops are required to check IL FOID cards and follow regulations on purchases like 72 hour waiting period on handguns, 24 hour period on rifles. Ammunition can’t be purchased without a FOID card. Gang bangers are mostly either too young (under 21) or have criminal backgrounds (felonies, arrests etc) that prevent them from obtaining a FOID card.So where do the guns come from? States where buying guns is easy and regulations are relaxed, like Indiana. Indiana borders the south side of Chicago. Gang bangers don’t drive down to gun shows in Indiana themselves. A typical gang banger would stand out in an all-white, rural Indiana crowd. An independent buyer makes straw purchases, and sells guns to the gangs at extreme markups.NRA-ILA | Indiana Gun Laws“It is unlawful for any person to sell or give a firearm to any person whom he has a reasonable cause to believe has been convicted of a felony, or is a drug abuser or under the influence of a drug, or is an alcohol abuser or in a state of intoxication, or is mentally incompetent.”Indiana also restricts gun sales to people under 18.That’s it.IL gun laws regarding sales:“Illinois law prohibits any person from knowingly selling firearms or ammunition to individuals who are ineligible to possess a firearm or who do not hold a Firearm Owner's Identification (“FOID”) card.”That’s quite a big difference. In Illinois you must have a valid FOID card, which means you’ve had a background check and approval by the IL State Police, and sometimes the FBI. Otherwise, you can’t even enter a place where guns are sold.The Indiana laws make it very easy for people to buy guns at gun shows, provide false information if necessary, and sell the guns to illegal purchasers in Illinois at a significant profit. These gun sales can’t be traced back to any individual once they’ve been passed through a few buyers. The original retail purchaser may be linked to the serial number of a gun, but there’s no law that says a retail shop has to keep this information.The FBI and ATF have been attempting to track and arrest individuals making straw purchases in Indiana for sales in Chicago. In one high-profile case, a white college student was making straw purchases at gun shows, filling a duffle bag with guns that would be sold to street gang members.The ‘gunshow loophole’ is not the only way guns are acquired illegally. “Easy shops” are well known by straw buyers throughout the US. Guns can also be smuggled in from other countries.The lack of gun control in other states contributes to the violence, but the root causes are poverty, lack of opportunity, boredom, the justice and penal system, and the bail bond system in the US. Once a person is handed a felony conviction, it is very difficult to get out of the penal system.

I live in Indiana, a state in which it isn’t too much of a hassle to get a carry permit since we’ve been a “shall issue” state since 1983.Indiana is unique in that it’s possible to get a lifetime license to carry, but the option of getting a four-year permit still an option if you can’t spare the $125 fee for the lifetime version.The applicant fills out a form (and in locales like mine, the Police Chief’s secretary will fill it out for you), submit to fingerprinting, have two money orders (one of the locals and one for the State Police), and you wait 4–6 weeks for the permit to arrive in the mail. (I don’t remember the amounts for each one now since I haven’t needed to apply for even a renewal for years now, but last time I got a 4-year permit, the total cost was about $40).Part of the application process can now be done online, I’m told. I’m also told it’s better to avoid that since it has been known to cause unforeseen delays in getting approval.The State Police does a background check on the applicant, and if there are no felonies or instances of spousal abuse, the permit is issued.People have joked about the waiting period between applying and getting the permit. It’s been known to take as little as two weeks, and in some rare instances, two months. The joke is questioning how many of the ladies in the permit approval office are out on maternity leave at the time.