Chicago, IL —Chicago’s gun registration efforts began in 1968. Since then thousands of guns were registered by the most upstanding and law-abiding citizens.
How many crimes were solved because of the registration program you ask? Nobody can cite a single instance of serious crime being solved.
Police have looked to see if expired registrations were renewed and made life Hell for those who failed to notice the expirations.
Of course the records were used and abused by nosy bureaucrats and cops checking on their own neighbors from time to time.
The state has a much more effective Firearms Owner Identification system that citizens are required to obtain before they can possess firearm or ammunition. Those cards, the personal information and photos of the bearers provide law enforcement with plenty of information.
The rub here is the people that bother to obtain the FOID cards behave themselves rather well. The FOID records don’t exist for criminals since the...