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Highland Park Shooting Reveals Limits of Illinois’s Gun Restrictions [1]
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Date: 2022-07-06
For hours after the shooting, which resulted in seven deaths, the authorities searched for the suspect. Deputy Chief Christopher Covelli of the Lake County Sheriff’s Office said investigators believed that he fled to Madison, Wis., after the attack but then returned to Illinois, where he was arrested. Chief Covelli said the police believed that Mr. Crimo saw a holiday celebration in Madison and considered using a second rifle he had with him in the car to carry out another shooting there, but decided against it.
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In an Illinois State Police news conference on Wednesday, officials defended how they handled Mr. Crimo’s application for a gun license, and released records showing that he had told Highland Park officers in 2019 that he had been depressed and used drugs.
Under Illinois law, there are several opportunities for the authorities to intervene if a gun owner is deemed to pose a dangerous risk. This begins with the application process for a gun license, known in Illinois as a Firearm Owner’s Identification card.
The application includes a long list of questions about past felony convictions, failed drug tests or recent hospitalizations for mental illness. It is submitted to the State Police, where it goes through dozens of steps, involving electronic and manual checks of national and state databases. At any point in that process, the state could determine that a person is not eligible. However, a vast majority are approved; according to a 2021 report by the Illinois auditor general, fewer than 4 percent of nearly 600,000 applications were denied in 2018 and 2019.
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