A state law that allows Wisconsin residents to carry concealed weapons went into effect Nov. 1. Under the law, state residents 21 or older who submit $50 to the Justice Department, pass an agency background check and prove they have received some firearms training can obtain a permit to carry.

The law requires the agency to process applications received before Nov. 30 within 45 days. Any applications received after that date must be processed within 21 days.

As of Dec. 28, DOJ had received 64,832 applications, issued 36,373 permits and denied 800, mostly because addresses applicants submitted didn’t match their addresses in state Department of Transportation records, DOJ spokeswoman Dana Brueck said.

DOJ Law Enforcement Services Division Administrator Brian O’Keefe said the agency has received anywhere from hundreds to thousands of applications in a single day. He said the agency likely will need one to two extra days beyond the 45- and 21-day windows to get permits processed for several weeks starting early this month.

“It’s been a tremendous task for DOJ to try to keep up,” O’Keefe said. “We’ll always try to do what the law mandates we do … (but) we’re going to have a two-week period where we’re below the limits.” Read more

Source: Appleton Post Crescent

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Concealed carry still will be permitted in several other county buildings, and at special events including the annual county fair.

Signs will be posted prohibiting people from carrying guns in the Brown County Community Treatment Center, the Sophie Beaumont Building (which houses much of the Human Services Department) and the county Shelter Care offices, all in Green Bay. The ban will go into effect once the county has been able to publish the new regulation, a process likely to take at least several days.

Sheriff’s deputies don’t have any immediate plans for aggressive enforcement of the ban, Sheriff John Gossage said shortly after the vote. He said officers currently respond when concerns are raised that someone might have a weapon in the buildings or might plan to bring one, and that the policy won’t change.

Concealed carry will be permitted at two other facilities in Green Bay: the Northern Building — the county’s main office complex and site of the board’s committee meetings — and at the Agriculture and Extension Facility. It also is permitted at special events.

A Wisconsin law that went into effect Nov. 1 allowed individuals with the proper permits to carry concealed weapons in public, though not in locations such as courts and police stations. It gives municipalities and private-property owners the ability to prohibit concealed weapons if certain notices are made to the public. Most communities in northern Brown County have made it illegal to carry concealed weapons into government buildings. Exceptions are Green Bay, which doesn’t restrict concealed-carry. Hobart prohibits it at the village office building. Read more

Source: greenbaypressgazette.com

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On September 18, 2010 five law-abiding Wisconsin residents were peacefully having dinner at a Culver’s Restaurant in Madison, Wisconsin.  These five individuals, who were legally openly carrying as provided by Wisconsin law, had finished their dinner and were preparing to leave the restaurant when they were unlawfully detained by a mass of Madison police officers.

Despite the absence of reasonable suspicion or probable cause of any crime or violation, Madison police illegally demanded identification from the men under the threat of arrest if they did not comply.

Two individuals who chose not to comply with the illegal action of the Madison police were subsequently arrested and cited for obstruction.  Two days later, those unlawfully-issued citations were rescinded and all five men, even those who complied with the officers illegal demands, were issued citations for disorderly conduct.

On May 5th of 2011, the frivolous disorderly conduct charges against all five men were dropped.

Wisconsin Carry, Inc. filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Madison and the five Madison Police officers who participated in the unlawful detainment and treatment of these five individuals. A copy of that lawsuit is available here:

http://www.wisconsincarry.org/pdf/Madison5/lawsuit.pdf

The judgment of $10,000 against the City of Madison and five Madison police officers was agreed to by Wisconsin Carry, Inc. and their 5 co-plaintiffs.  This judgment will be entered into the record of the Federal District Court, Western Wisconsin.

A copy of the judgment agreement can be viewed here:

http://www.wisconsincarry.org/pdf/Madison5/Doc_10_Acceptance_of_OOJ.pdf

“Wisconsin Carry will continue to employ and “all of the above” approach to advancing and protecting the right to carry in the manner of one’s choosing in Wisconsin,” the group said in a press release. “Included in those methods are lawsuits, grass roots legislative activism, public education/awareness, free concealed weapon license training, and every other effective measure.”

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WGO reported in early 2011 that NRA’s Wayne LaPierre had expressed his support for left-wing Democrat Senator Harry Reid.

NRA leaders never denied that; instead they pointed out the fact that the NRA did not officially endorse Reid (that’s true).

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Gun owners like you don’t have to be a part of a political organization focused on gaining access to politicians, and subsequently selling you out.

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AB69 — known as castle doctrine — provides legal protection to those who in cases involving “Use of force in response to unlawful and forcible entry into a dwelling, motor vehicle, or place
of business.”

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Similar legislation was shot down by past Governor Jim Doyle in 2005, 2007 and 2009.

The legislation, introduced by Senator Van Wanggaard, passed both the Assembly and Senate along bipartisan lines. There are 30 other states that have some form of the “Castle Doctrine” in place.

“When faced with a threatening intruder, you shouldn’t have to worry about criminal or civil liability concerns. At that point, your only concern should be your safety. There is no place where a person has more of a right to be safe than in their own home,” Wanggaard reportedly said.

The language in the bill was not as strong as it could have been, according to Wisconsin Gun Owners, Inc. (WGO). The state’s only no-compromise gun rights organization had lobbied to change the word “privilege” of self-defense to “right” of self-defense. WGO also did not want to limit the liability protection to the home, motor vehicle or place of business, but to “any place a person may legally be.”

The organization plans to continue pushing for a better law, though they aren’t holding their breath waiting for the institutional gun lobby to take up that torch.

In the meantime, anti-gun lawyers with the State Bar of Wisconsin — a group representing more than 600 criminal defense lawyers, prosecutors, judges, academics and other numbskulls — opposed the bill crying foul that it would enable homeowners to shoot “trick-or-treaters.”

Of course, that scare tactic didn’t work, and the act itself states that force may only be used against an intruder, “after unlawfully and forcibly entering it, the actor was present in the dwelling, motor vehicle, or place of business, and the actor knew or had reason to believe that the person had unlawfully and forcibly entered the dwelling, motor vehicle, or place of business.”

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Capt. Rudy Nyman of the Appleton Police Department discusses the implementation of Wisconsin’s new concealed carry law. Note: We are not endorsing Captain Nyman’s comments, but rather posting this so you can be aware of the attitudes of police toward concealed carry permit holders. Note also that Capt. Nyman says that all public buildings in Appleton will post to prohibit concealed carry.

That means there will be suspension of constitutional rights (both state and federal) in our government buildings (those owned by taxpayers) throughout Appleton. This hearkens back to the days of segregation. And it could be taken as “Martial Law Lite.”  But no matter how you take it, WGO will be tackling these outrageous city-level gun bans and creation of criminal safe zones by our aldermen one by one.

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