Cook County Sheriff: "No conceivable way" CCW background checks can be accomplished in 30 days

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Once anyone applies for a permit, law enforcement agencies would have 30 days to determine if the person is “a danger to himself or herself or others, or a threat to public safety” and file an objection to the application.

“There’s no conceivable way that we can get to any of this, and this won’t be because of lack of desire,” Dart said. “How in God’s name, in the course of less than 30 days, can we go through 100-, 150-, 200,000 applications and analyze whether or not this is a person that has mental illness? Is this a person who is actively involved in a gang, even though they haven’t been arrested in the last five years?”

Dart said he thinks the short window for conducting background checks is by design, saying the National Rifle Association doesn’t want him determining who should be considered safe to carry a gun in public.

“We’re going to be overwhelmed with people asking for these type of permits, and yet we have no ability at all to do any type of analysis,” Dart said.

As a result, Dart warned that people who wouldn’t qualify under a more thoughtful process will be able to get concealed carry permits, because his office doesn’t have the resources to perform thorough background checks for every applicant.

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