(The Center Square) – Officials with the Illinois State Police, attorney general’s office and Cook County state’s attorney have been summoned in a case challenging the state’s gun owner ID law.
The Illinois Firearm Owners’ ID card has been around since 1967. The law requires an Illinois resident to get a FOID card from Illinois State Police if they want to own or buy a firearm.
Jacob Huebert, an attorney for plaintiffs on the case from the New Civil Liberties Alliance, said the case is simple as there is no text, history or tradition around the country’s founding of a gun owner ID requirement…