Like I said, cherry-picking and running down the state over a single issue while disregarding the bigger picture...
Have you seen Texas enacting any state-level registration laws? No. Have you seen Texas enacting any state-level ownership laws? No. Have you seen Texas enacting any state-level rules to define traveling and get residents more protection from over-zealous jurisdictions? Yes. Have you seen Texas moving in an attempt to enact state-level rules to broaden the scope of legal concealed carry? Yes.
Get over it. I want more, too, but still recognize that we have it pretty good here in terms of firearms, far superior to a bunch of other states. And we have a state gov that's making moves to make it even better. Stop bitching and moaning about a single issue and celebrate what we DO have, and that the general attitude is still very pro-gun.
Brad
I know EXACTLY where you're coming from.
I commonly run into it on various gun-boards that the impression is WI is some anti-gun hellhole just because we don't have CCW (yet) and just mentally write us off on some list.
We have one of the strongest and well-worded RKBA amendments of any state constitution.
We have open carry. (in theroy anyway)
No purchase permits.
No ownership permits or FOID cards.
Statewide gun-law preemption. No city level bans.
Gun Range protection laws. (We were here first law)
No ammo bans.
No magazine bans.
No features or type bans. (No state AWB)
All NFA is okay here.
CCW is only a low-level misdemeanor, and with court pres
The only really onerous laws we have is a two day wait because we do our own state check for handguns rather than NICS. And our wait was better because it preempted the five-day Brady wait when that was in effect. And the other is our car transport/carry rules are pretty strict about being cased, unloaded, and inaccessible (if possible for your type of vehicle), however, in reality it's genesis was an anti-poaching measure, even if it's used against those trying to car-carry for self-defense too.
All we need is CCW, Castle doctrine, and "Stand your Ground/No duty to flee" and WI is arguably a top-five RKBA state.
And people forget the Legislature has passed CCW TWICE, and with initial 2/3rds veto-proof super-majorities. For the past decade, WI has been more of a state where anti's have avoided CCW by the skin of their teeth, than some state with huge momentum against it. The State Supreme Court has also admonished the Legislature/Executive branch to pass CCW as well. And in reality, CCW by otherwise clean individuals has been treated with kid gloves/plutonium from a prosecutorial standpoint.
Until the Legislature passes shall-issue this spring, WI's been one SC case away from "Constitutional Carry" for a few years now too.
