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Alright, here we go.
Starting with Chapter 134.58, Wisconsin Statutes (Annotated)
This makes it illegal to raise a private army or police force (police does not imply public officer in this state, strangely), who are armed in their course of their duties, to protect or break strikes. "not being authorized by the laws of this state" means that they are not: 1) A public law enforcement officer in a law enforcement agency raised by the state or subdivision (A cop), 2) A private security or private police officer raised by a corporation pursuant to Chapter 440 of Wisconsin Statutes, or a soldier of the Wisconsin National Guard or Wisconsin Air National Guard.
If you are not protecting any thing or suppressing strikes, this law does not apply to you.
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Article 1, Chapter 25 of the Wisconsin State Constitition reads:
The people have the right to keep and bear arms for security, defense, hunting, recreation or any other lawful purpose.
Our state constitution is law. We have the right to keep and bear arms for "any lawful purpose."
Purposes and situations that make carry unlawful:
941.235 Posession of a firearm in a government building w/o permission.
941.237 Posession of a loaded firearm in a tavern or other place that serves liquor.
167.31(2)(b) DRL's rule that says hunters (read anybody) may not carry a loaded gun in a car.
Preemption by towns is illegal...
66.0409(2) Except as provided in subs. (3) and (4), no political subdivision may enact an ordinance or adopt a resolution that regulates the sale, purchase, purchase delay, transfer, ownership, use, keeping, possession, bearing, transportation, licensing, permitting, registration or taxation of any firearm or part of a firearm, including ammunition and reloader components, unless the ordinance or resolution is the same as or similar to, and no more stringent than, a state statute.
Disorderly Conduct, the only charge that some Attorney General's staffer came up with to "counter the gun threat" is as follows:
947.01 Disorderly conduct. Whoever, in a public or private place, engages in violent, abusive, indecent, profane, boisterous, unreasonably loud or otherwise disorderly conduct under circumstances in which the conduct tends to cause or provoke a disturbance is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.
Chapter 941.20, Subchapter 3, Weapons, governs going armed while in public. There's a whole bunch of rules about where you can't go armed, but it doesn't specifically outlaw "going armed" in public.
If you can show me a specific statute that makes open carry illegal in this state, I'll conceed the point. However, it has been proven time and time again that one simply doesn't exist.
Yes, you may be arrested for disorderly conduct. However, no judge has found a person guilty of disorderly conduct for peaceably going armed in public.
You realize there was open carry at the NRA convention last year, correct? No headlines about people being arrested for it.
Starting with Chapter 134.58, Wisconsin Statutes (Annotated)
134.58 Use of unauthorized persons as officers. Any person who, individually, in concert with another or as agent or officer of any firm, joint-stock company or corporation, uses, employs, aids or assists in employing any body of armed persons to act as militia, police or peace officers for the protection of persons or property or for the suppression of strikes, not being authorized by the laws of this state to so act, is guilty of a Class I felony.
This makes it illegal to raise a private army or police force (police does not imply public officer in this state, strangely), who are armed in their course of their duties, to protect or break strikes. "not being authorized by the laws of this state" means that they are not: 1) A public law enforcement officer in a law enforcement agency raised by the state or subdivision (A cop), 2) A private security or private police officer raised by a corporation pursuant to Chapter 440 of Wisconsin Statutes, or a soldier of the Wisconsin National Guard or Wisconsin Air National Guard.
If you are not protecting any thing or suppressing strikes, this law does not apply to you.
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Article 1, Chapter 25 of the Wisconsin State Constitition reads:
The people have the right to keep and bear arms for security, defense, hunting, recreation or any other lawful purpose.
Our state constitution is law. We have the right to keep and bear arms for "any lawful purpose."
Purposes and situations that make carry unlawful:
941.235 Posession of a firearm in a government building w/o permission.
941.237 Posession of a loaded firearm in a tavern or other place that serves liquor.
167.31(2)(b) DRL's rule that says hunters (read anybody) may not carry a loaded gun in a car.
Preemption by towns is illegal...
66.0409(2) Except as provided in subs. (3) and (4), no political subdivision may enact an ordinance or adopt a resolution that regulates the sale, purchase, purchase delay, transfer, ownership, use, keeping, possession, bearing, transportation, licensing, permitting, registration or taxation of any firearm or part of a firearm, including ammunition and reloader components, unless the ordinance or resolution is the same as or similar to, and no more stringent than, a state statute.
Disorderly Conduct, the only charge that some Attorney General's staffer came up with to "counter the gun threat" is as follows:
947.01 Disorderly conduct. Whoever, in a public or private place, engages in violent, abusive, indecent, profane, boisterous, unreasonably loud or otherwise disorderly conduct under circumstances in which the conduct tends to cause or provoke a disturbance is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.
Chapter 941.20, Subchapter 3, Weapons, governs going armed while in public. There's a whole bunch of rules about where you can't go armed, but it doesn't specifically outlaw "going armed" in public.
If you can show me a specific statute that makes open carry illegal in this state, I'll conceed the point. However, it has been proven time and time again that one simply doesn't exist.
Yes, you may be arrested for disorderly conduct. However, no judge has found a person guilty of disorderly conduct for peaceably going armed in public.
You realize there was open carry at the NRA convention last year, correct? No headlines about people being arrested for it.
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