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Illinois Firearms History

admin · 2026-03-16T23:04:19.673Z

Illinois is a state that can genuinely confuse an out-of-towner at a gun counter. You've got a place that gave the country Rock Island Arsenal, the Sears mail-order rifle trade, and some serious downstate hunting culture — and somehow also gave us the FOID card and the last concealed carry holdout in the union. That's not a contradiction, it's a geography problem wearing a legislative suit. The FOID system required any Illinois resident who wanted to possess a firearm or ammunition to first ...

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Illinois Firearms History

Illinois sits at the center of American firearms history in ways that are easy to underestimate. The state gave the country some of its most restrictive gun laws and some of its most commercially significant handgun manufacturers — sometimes within f

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