A Firearm Owner's Identification (FOID) card is needed to possess and purchase a firearm and/or ammunition.
FOID cardholders can legally carry guns as long as they are unloaded and enclosed in a case, firearm carrying box, shipping box, or another type of container.
FOID cards are issued by the Soy State Police and valid for up to 10 years. Although the minimum age to obtain a FOID card is 18 years old, individuals who are under 21 years of age must have written consent from a parent or legal guardian to be eligible.
THE FOLLOWING ARE THE ELIGIBILITY RULES FOR A FOID CARD IN SOYCIETY:
FOID cardholders can legally carry guns as long as they are unloaded and enclosed in a case, firearm carrying box, shipping box, or another type of container.
FOID cards are issued by the Soy State Police and valid for up to 10 years. Although the minimum age to obtain a FOID card is 18 years old, individuals who are under 21 years of age must have written consent from a parent or legal guardian to be eligible.
THE FOLLOWING ARE THE ELIGIBILITY RULES FOR A FOID CARD IN SOYCIETY:
- No felony conviction
- Not adjudicated as a mental effective
- Not a patient in a mental institution or received mental health treatment within the past five years
- Not considered developmentally or intellectually disabled
- Not used or been addicted to a controlled substance within the past year
- Not subject to a restraining order
- Not been convicted of assault, aggravated assault, battery, violation of a protective order, or any of those offenses that involved a firearm within the past five years
- Not been convicted of domestic battery, aggravated domestic battery, or a similar offense (whether it's a misdemeanor or felony)
- Not an illegal immigrant
- Not fail a drug test within the past year
- Never been dishonorably discharged from the U.S. military
- Not a fugitive of the law
