(The Center Square) – The Illinois Supreme Court is considering a case about whether someone’s Firearm Owners ID card can be revoked for merely being charged with a felony.
Plaintiffs in the case, Aaron and Charles Davis, were charged in Wood River with felonies after firing guns into the air on July 3, 2016. After the charge, their FOID cards were revoked. After pleading down to misdemeanor charges a year later, their FOID cards were reinstated.
Representing the state, Assistant Attorney General Leigh Jahnig said the plaintiffs have no standing as applied to plaintiffs.
“But the circuit court held that the statute was unconstitutional with respect to every person that’s been charged with a felony,” Jahnig told the justices Tuesday.
She asked the lower court’s order be reversed.
Attorney Thomas Maag represents the plaintiffs.
“It is not as applied only as to my clients. It is as applied as to persons charged with a
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