The Naperville Police Department wants to hire two additional officers to help investigate a backlog of revoked Firearm Owner's ID cards.
More than 700 revoked Firearm Owner’s Identification cards are tied to Naperville, police reported this week. Of those, about 300 require further review and more than 100 are considered high risk cases. Six Naperville officers are assigned to the task but the backlog of cases isn’t dwindling.
card to legally purchase, or own, any firearm. When cards are revoked, holders are required by state law to surrender their IDs to the local law enforcement agency where they reside within 48 hours of receiving notice that they’re noncompliant. Though possessing a cards were revoked in Naperville between 2015 and 2019. The city’s strategic response unit wasn’t created until 2020. The initiative was, in part, motivated by the 2019 Henry Pratt Co. warehouse shooting in Aurora — in which a convicted felon killed five people and injured five police officers with a pistol he never should have been allowed to keep — and a reinvigorated focus on
cards. However, not every revocation requires extra probing. Bissegger says the number today is more like 300 in Naperville. “Some of these things can be fairly innocuous,” Bissegger said. “Somebody that just falls out of compliance because they’ve not renewed or there’s just something a little more benign about it.
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Naperville Police ArrestsRoundup of recent arrests made by the Naperville Police Department.
Read more »
Local scores for the Southland, Aurora, Elgin, Naperville and Lake CountyResults and highlights of high schools and local colleges from the Southland and Aurora, Elgin, Naperville and Lake County coverage areas.
Read more »
Naperville residents receive college/university degrees, named to honor rolls and dean’s listsRoundup of Naperville residents who have recently completed college/university degrees or have been named to their school's academic achievement lists.
Read more »
Women suspected in other burglaries arrested on charges they stole merchandise from Naperville Ulta storeThree women suspected of stealing merchandise from two suburban Ulta Beauty stores were arrested on theft and burglary charges Wednesday when they allegedly tried to do the same at a Naperville store, police said.
Read more »
Gun busts at TopGolf in Naperville the result of proactive crackdown on illegal weapons, officials sayAuthorities say they have no reason to believe the string of gun busts at Naperville’s TopGolf facility over the past three weeks are connected and maintain that the space is safe to visit.
Read more »
Chicago women charged with stealing from Ulta Beauty storesThree Chicago women were charged in connection with thefts from Ulta Beauty stores Wednesday in Naperville.
Read more »