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"In 1968, the year Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy were shot by assassins, Illinois began requiring people who wanted to own or use firearms to buy a state license. The fee was set at $5 and hasn't changed since, leaving all state taxpayers to now underwrite the cost of processing the permits."
"Over that 36-year span, the charges for driver's licenses, license plate renewals, camping permits and virtually every other state fee have been increased substantially, some under Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who champions a pay-as-you-go philosophy." ...
Yet Blagojevich, once an outspoken gun-control advocate who crusaded a decade ago to increase the Illinois gun permit fee to $500, now has become equally passionate about ensuring that the modest charge for the Firearms Owners Identification Card stays as is." ... |
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