Wisconsin receives 20,000 applications for CCW

It's 2012 and Wisconsin has been overwhelmed by applications.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...edcarry-applications-20120102,0,4559147.story

They must be back logged at least 46 days if they're saying that they won't meet their deadline (45 days).

I'm sure there were some state workers that were happy to be getting overtime pay heading into the holidays...

This story appeared in the Chicago Tribune, I'm not sure what that says... maybe the Trib is covering the Illinois carry story indirectly with a story like this.
 
Let's not go there !!!

I knew though that Hunters Ed was the one thing they said was a lock solid for getting your training portion approved.
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I hope not as that would be a great mistake and that is coming from a Hunter Safety instructor. For one thing, the use of handguns is not taught and even discouraged. Most of the students are in the 11 to 19 year old range with the rest being adults. ..... ;)

If and when training is required, it is best left to NRA Certified instructors. I personally know three NRA certified instructors in Iowa and have assisted one. What they teach is a far cry from what is taught in a states Hunter Safety Course. .... ;)

Be Safe !!!
 
sink the windy city!!!

Then the rest of your state can do things right. It always amazed me how the Daily family had more power than your Governor did in Ill., they have so many times shot down anything to do with firearms. I am 58 and its been that way my whole life, i know i only live across the border in MI down the road 130 miles. Chicago has always been a dictator of your state,we had the same problem with Detroit for yrs but boy has that changed in the last 5 to 8 yrs or so. Good luck,maybe Rahm will give in?but i doubt it? your state has had some serious crooks in office over the yrs (not mentioning the one in the big house)they never have followed rules at all re-writing tons of them as they went along. There truly is nothing to match Chicago politics? Well maybe Boston? close second anyway. Lets see Dailys or Kennedys? Not much different at all. GOOD LUCK.
 
I knew though that Hunters Ed was the one thing they said was a lock solid for getting your training portion approved.
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I hope not as that would be a great mistake and that is coming from a Hunter Safety instructor. For one thing, the use of handguns is not taught and even discouraged.
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Maybe in Iowa, but the Illinois Hunter’s Safety Course that I took with my oldest daughter 10 years ago had a lot about safe handgun handling.

Regardless, I’m not holding my breath. Until the Liberal pinheads in Chicago all fall into Lake Michigan and drown, there will be no CCW in Illinois.
 
Quite a few states have no training requirements at all, and there is no problem with the CCW population. Those requirements are being used to delay, defer, and refuse issuance of permits, or just make it so expensive and onerous that folks just don't follow through on getting the permit.
 
Quite a few states have no training requirements at all, and there is no problem with the CCW population. Those requirements are being used to delay, defer, and refuse issuance of permits, or just make it so expensive and onerous that folks just don't follow through on getting the permit.
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Very true.
 
Wisconsin has issued 100,000 CWPs

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statep...oncealed-weapon-permit-b453bo9-148271255.html

I thought it was amazing when they got 20,000 applications right off the bat.

I have always thought that the anti-gunners in Illinois like Rahm Emanual were hoping the Wisconsiners (we call them cheeseheads), would all start shooting themselves but they haven't.

Notice the new tact... all hell obviously hasn't broken out in Wisconsin but the anti-gunners now hint that no one really knows...

Van Hollen said there have been no problems since Wisconsin residents gained the ability to carry hidden guns.

"There were doomsday people out there, before concealed carry was passed, who were predicting, of course, the doom and gloom that when we put more guns on the street, that when more people are able to carry concealed weapons, that we're going to have more problems," he said. "Nothing could have been further from the truth." He said he was confident implementing the law would go smoothly because other states with concealed weapons laws have had minimal issues.

"We expected we would not have problems in Wisconsin either, and we have not," he said.
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But Jeri Bonavia, executive director of the Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort, said it was impossible to know how the law was working because the names of permit holders are confidential and available to law enforcement only in limited circumstances.

"We just don't know whether there have been problems or haven't been problems," she said.
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Really?

Are there shootouts at the Dells that we just haven't heard about?

Farmers been shooting at each other cuz their neighbor's livestock wandered onto their property but it just didn't make the news?

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...the names of permit holders are confidential and available to law enforcement only in limited circumstances.
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I don't believe this is really true. In TX permit holder information is confidential, as far as the public goes, but any LE who has your name can pull up the information.
 
Barring disaster or other specific, catalytic event, I expect Wisconsin to see a slight decline in violent crime over the next couple of years.

At the very least, it is a strictly safe bet that violent crime will not increase.
 
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