House Bill 4681 proposes that residents receive $100 for operable firearms they turn into Illinois State Police. But the Illinois State Police has administrative and staffing issues that will prohibit them from processing the firearms safely. As it is, the Auditor General revealed in a 2022 inventory report there were 719 missing items from the ISP worth $1.5 million. In 2021, the inventory audit reported 1,413 missing items worth nearly $2.5 million.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.