AG Madigan Paves Way for Board Review of Rejected Concealed Carry Applicants

The Illinois State Police have adopted an emergency rule that allows rejected concealed carry applicants to learn why their application was denied. Still at issue was that the 200 denied applicants wouldn't be permitted to have their applications looked at by the review board under the new rules. It appears that the Attorney General is working on that:

The only way those applicants would be allowed to get a new review is if the judge sent them back to the board, the ISP said. The attorney general’s decision is a response to that. 

“We’re going to be asking the courts to remand the cases back to the review board for more process as a result of the new emergency rules ISP announced last week,” said Madigan’s spokeswoman Natalie Bauer.

The players in Illinois' concealed carry law continue to expand. First there was the federal court decision that struck down Illinois' concealed carry ban and provided a 6-month window to prompt reluctant Illinois legislators to pass a concealed carry law. Then there were lawsuits filed by applicants that were denied conceal carry permits without being provided the grounds for denial. Then the Illinois State Police implemented an emergency rule to allow applicants to learn the basis of a denial. Now the Attorney General is asking the Cook County Circuit Court to remand the cases to the review board so that the litigants have the benefit of the new emergency rules. 

How government actually works is very different from that old Schoolhouse Rock video. Laws and sausages, my friends. Laws and sausages. 

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