It's a story the ABC7 I-Team has been covering for months now.
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RELATED: Illinois FOID card delays: New law will help state clear backlog, IL State Police director says
Earlier this year, it was taking police more than six months to process renewals. Now, ISP says they're being processed in 38 days.
They credit the implementation of a streamlined process, as well as hiring additional staff.
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RELATED: Illinois State Police says it reduced FOID card backlog by 75% for new applicants, 89% for renewals
"The Illinois State Police Firearms Services Bureau is committed to a firearms background check system focused on safety, not bureaucracy. We want to make it easy on the good guys and hard on the bad guys," said ISP Director Brendan F. Kelly. "We continue to improve our workflow and these updated numbers show we are definitely headed in the right direction."
The backlog is now down to 7,800 cards, from 138,000 just over a year ago.