How can it be legal to charge a tax to own a gun?
Surprise! There's already an excise tax on guns and ammo. Your pay it everytime you buy either.
The state could save a bunch of time and money by just integrating the FOID into the driver's liscense.
Oh yeah, that will work. Guess you don't know what kind of problems there are with motor-voter registration.
people wouldn't have to wait THREE MONTHS to get their cards in the mail.
Not only hyperbole but not at all correct. As of the 1st of Sept there was a 33 day processing time. The processing time is shorter after hunting season.
Possibly the worst thing of all is that the FOID card isn't even considered a valid form of ID. The Illinois DMV doesn't even recognize the FOID card. They classify it as a hunting liscense.
More incorrect info. The FOID card certainly is considered a valid form of ID. It's a picture ID issued by the government. Whoever told you otherwise is full of it. And SOS (it's not DMV) does NOT consider it a hunting license. More crockery.
If you're going to complain about something then at least stick to the facts. Interjecting erroneous information as fact just shoots down your argument and renders you completely lacking in credibility.
To answer the OP's original concerns:
If Obama is elected President he won't have anything to do with IL FOID anymore than he does now as senator.
FOID card issuance have never been intentionally delayed regardless of what some in the the ISRA want you to believe. Back when cards were taking several weeks was due to 3 things. 1) At the time was a huge influx of renewals. It was getting towards hunting season and many hunters realized that sometime during the year their cards had expired. So in addition to all the people whose cards normally expired from Sept thru Nov there was the big influx of expired renewals from thru out rest of the year. 2) That was during the pre-computer days when cards had the picture you submitted afixed to the card. That was very labor intensive. 3) When the backlog occurred was the same time the governor eliminated all contractual positions from every agency in state government. Most of the FOID employees were not ISP employees but were contractual. When all contractual people were removed the ISP got a few month extension to keep the contractuals at FOID but eventually those had to be let go too. That not only affected FOID but it impacted every agency in the state under the executive branch. Thousands of people were let go and there was no budget nor authorization to hire full time regular state employees to fill those jobs.
Your concern about going door to door doing searches. Ask any LEO on this board what it takes to get a search warrant. I'm not talking about the probable cause portion, just the time involved. Then multiply that amount of time by 1.3 million which is about the number of FOID cards in IL. At most a team could do no more than 1 search warrant a day and that is unrealistic given the amount of time involved preparing the affidavit for the search warrant, getting a state's attorney to approve the sw, getting a judge to approve the sw, serving the sw, inventorying everything seized, placing everything seized into evidence, then doing the return to the judge. That's a pretty big order for any and all agencies in IL. And no agency is going to do it simply because if a person shows they had a valid FOID, had submitted a renewal in a timely manner, and are awaiting their renewed card, very few if any judges would issue a sw to begin with. It's just no realistic even if there weren't any 4th Amendment issues.
Your point about your wife still having a FOID that is valid a few yrs longer than yours is a valid argument and another reason why judges would very reluctantly want to get involved issuing sw for residences.
There are a lot more important things to worry about than what your concerns.
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