When gun buyers undergo a NICS instant background check, federal law demands that the records be destroyed 24 hours after a "proceed" notification is given to the dealer. That means that if you buy a gun, the dealer calls it in to NICS, the government cannot keep the information on file as a de-facto gun registration scheme.

But if you live in Illinois, they keep the information indefinitely. What's more, localities like Chicago routinely use gun purchase and ownership records to seize firearms. Illinois recently passed a bill that would require Illinois to destroy the purchase records after 90 days. The bill also included an anti-gun provision that forces private citizens to seek government permission before they can sell a firearm (the mythical "gun show loophole"). In an unsurprising move, Governor Blablabla is bowing to the Gun Control Lobby and promises to use his line-item veto power to get rid of the requirement to destroy their gun registry, while keeping the anti-gun provisions.

Illinois is not, and probably never will be friendly to the freedom of law-abiding citizens.