It looks like Illinois has sneaked in a form of registration, at least regarding person to person transfers. Originally, to transfer from one individual to another one went to the ISP portal and entered the FOID number and birthdate of the recipient. Then you were given a transfer number which proved that the recipient was eligible to receive a firearm after the proper waiting period. No information besides the FOID and date of birth.
I checked the portal today and the information to be entered is about like that on a 4473. Complete name and address of purchaser, i.d. numbers, plus a complete description of the firearm.
If this was ever announced I sure missed it. I'm pretty sure we have transfers only through dealer coming but that information stays with the dealer until he goes out of business.
This information is going direct to the state police.
I'm not naive enough to think the information won't be stored. Or shared.
Sure looks like registration to me.
I checked the portal today and the information to be entered is about like that on a 4473. Complete name and address of purchaser, i.d. numbers, plus a complete description of the firearm.
If this was ever announced I sure missed it. I'm pretty sure we have transfers only through dealer coming but that information stays with the dealer until he goes out of business.
This information is going direct to the state police.
I'm not naive enough to think the information won't be stored. Or shared.
Sure looks like registration to me.