In 2016, Brown tried to buy a firearm that required the Illinois State Police carry out a background verify. The background check revealed that, in 2001, Brown pled responsible to inflicting damage to a spouse, a misdemeanor in the state of California. Federal law prohibits an individual from possessing a firearm after a home violence conviction and, beneath the FOID Act, ISP could revoke a FOID card when firearm possession would violate federal law. This is the first successful jury verdict in a case seeking to carry pharmaceutical retailers responsible for the opioid disaster. The Network for Public Health … Read More