Shabbona Fire Dept 52 Gun Raffle

Dawn Marie the firearms are sold by a dealer and all legal steps are taken. The department is selling a ticket, not a firearm. 100% legal.

Cliff Speare Jr. But isn’t the fire department paying for the guns? I highly doubt the gun shop donated 52 guns

Dawn Marie I wonder what the police department thinks about this

Michelle Larson Espy no they are selling the tickets not the actual firearm. The firearms are purchased using the money from the ticket sales to FOID card holders. If you don’t have a FOID you can’t have the gun.

What is so hard for people to understand they are selling a ticket, not the firearm itself lol.

So if I sell raffle tickets for a kilo of cocaine, I can’t get busted for selling drugs. Got it. What’s so hard to understand?

But cocaine is illegal, firearms on this particular list are not. Apples to grapes.

Cliff Speare Jr. whether the product at issue is legal or illegal, your analogy was that only a TICKET is being sold because it’s a raffle. I just used that same analogy and applied it to a different product. Mainly to show that the ticket sellers have some ownership of what is being raffled.

Dawn Marie again, the ticket and items are not illegal. If it was the state and ISP wouldn’t allow it to happen.

Cliff Speare Jr. I never said it was. Sheesh. I said I wondered if they were taking on any liability or if they had to check for FOID cards and stuff. Your response was obviously not because they’re only selling tickets not guns. And I said that by that logic drug dealers could hold raffles and legally sell tickets without liability because they’re just selling pieces of paper, not drugs.

fundraiser

Thanks for the question. Sorry about not responding sooner. They are raising money for the Fire Protection District.

It’s sort of a different fundraiser, but it’s probably more common than you might think

Yeah isn’t there something better to raffle off? Like a hyvee card, or a car, or literally anything else?

Brad Earnest …. no… there absolutely isnt

Who would want a car when there’s firearms to be had?

Dont want a gun? Dont buy a raffle ticket and just donate cash!!! Easy peasy!!

Sheila R. Larson already got tickets

Sean Larson you going to me a ticket

MattandKim May I can get you a ticket if you want