Bloomington’s police chief says the department will rely on partnerships with other law enforcement agencies to try to get more illegal guns off the streets.
Jamal Simington also said the getting guns from those whose Firearm Owners Identification [FOID} cards have been revoked would not put a huge dent in the number of illegal guns in the community. The issue surfaced when it was discovered the gunman in a recent triple-murder suicide had a FOID card that had been previously revoked.
Simington said Bloomington Police talk regularly with the McLean County Sheriffs office and other law enforcement agencies, including Illinois State Police Task Force 6, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms [ATF]; Drug Enforcement Agency [DEA] and the U.S. Marshal’s Service, to address increasing gun violence…