WI: senate hearing on bill to ban private gun sales

[Monkeyleg]

Dear fellow gun owner:

On Tuesday, May 29th there will be a Senate committee hearing on SB104, Senator Spencer Coggs' bill to ban the private sale of firearms in Milwaukee county.

If this bill is passed, the implications will be far-reaching. First, it will prevent you from buying or trading firearms with your friends or relatives without first going through a background check with a licensed dealer.

Secondly, it will increase the cost of buying or trading firearms with your friends or relatives, as you're going to have to pay for the background check on every firearm. And, remember, that background check fee is targetted by Governor Doyle to be raised by $22.

Third, this bill will not just affect Milwaukee county. Currently we have a statewide pre-emption law that prohibits municipalities from enacting gun control laws more strict than those at the state level.

If this bill is passed, there will be many counties scrambling to ban private gun sales. We'll wind up with a confusing patchwork of gun laws across the state that will invariably snare honest citizens. That's why we had the push for the pre-emption law in 1995, so that honest citizens wouldn't be put in the position of wondering what's legal and where.

Fourth, if cities or counties are able to legislatively "opt out" of the intent of the pre-emption law, what's next? Handgun bans like the one that Madison had in the 1990's? Bans on military-style rifles in Racine or some other city? Exemptions to the Range Protection Act that could shut down your favorite ranges in your area?

If the anti-gunners find that they can successfully pick away at the state pre-emption law, then anything is possible.

The hearing for this bill will be held from 3 pm to 7 pm at the Department of Natural Resources building at 2300 Martin Luther King Drive in Milwaukee.

Please make every effort possible to attend this hearing, and voice your opposition to this bill.

For over ten years, gun owners in Wisconsin have been making progress, making Wisconsin a more gun-friendly state. We cannot allow all of the good work that has been done to be shredded by the anti-gun crowd.

This bill will not stop drive-by shootings. It will not stop criminals from getting guns. As with every other gun control law, it will only serve to put more restrictions on the law-abiding.

Thanks,
Wisconsin Citizens for Personal Security (formerly the Wisconsin Concealed Carry Association)
Louis Danielson, Chairman
Bill Schmitz, Vice Chairman
Andrew Walkowiak, Treasurer
Frank Tower, Secretary
Dick Baker, Founder

 

[HuntAndFish]

Man, this thing is onerous. I hope this doesn't pass up there in WI. Are the legislators in WI looking at some study that says this is the way criminals get guns in Milwaukee county? Where is this coming from?

 

[Monkeyleg]

HuntAndFish, the Democrats won control of the state senate, and anti-gun Governor Jim Doyle won re-election.

The lunatics are now running the asylum.

Various legislators and their aides have told me that the Republican leadership in the Assembly will not allow this bill to come up for a vote.

I have my doubts, though. SB104 was written a couple of years ago, was introduced earlier this year, and has been held back from even a committee vote.

Why?

Because the sponsors wanted to wait until we had a particularly tragic shooting that they could use to their ghoulish advantage.

We had such a shooting earlier this week, when a four year-old girl was killed while skipping rope in front of her home. It was a drive-by intended for some scumbag who was only wounded. Still, even though he knows who shot him, and who killed the little girl, he won't give up the names.

Within 48 hours of the shooting, the sponsors of the bill decided that this was their best time to hold hearings.

And those hearings are going to be held in the center of Milwaukee's ghetto community, thereby guaranteeing that we'll be outnumbered.

 

[DD698]

As long as Doyle is in office you will have a push for new useless gun laws. The guy was an anti gun dork when he was Attorney General and nothing has changed since the Milwaukee-Madison morons elected him Governor.

 

[Danzig]

I hope that such stupidity doesn't fly. But at least we have the knowledge that it's very difficult to regulate private transactions between individuals.