Gun Registration: The Process

From a thread I began on The High Road.

Well, I just did my annual duty here in Chicago and renewed my gun
registrations. Here's the process, for those who are curious:

1. Obtain as many registration forms as you need from the Gun Registration Office downtown or your closest police station. Try to be civil when they ask why you need multiples.
2. Get a head shot taken (digital camera and printer works fine) and adhere two copies to each form.
3. Fill out each form (one per gun) with your driver’s license number, Firearm Owner’s ID number, home address & phone, work address & phone, serial number of each firearm, make/model, barrel length, magazine capacity and caliber/gauge.
4. Sign it twice on the front, then attest that you’re not a convicted felon or mentally ill on the back and have it notarized.
5. Write a check to the City of Chicago. $20 for one gun, $25 for 2-10 and, I believe, $35 for more than 10.
6. Enclose a copy of your Firearm Owner’s ID card with the check and registration forms and send it to the Gun Registration Office. Using Certified and/or trackable Priority is preferable as I’ve had three registrations “disappear” in the mail in the past couple years.
7. Repeat annually.