As I’m reading it, they can confiscate your firearms just because a domestic abuse call was made, whether you were arrested, convicted, had a restraining order or injunction makes no difference. Then, at the end of some pre-set amount of time, you must ask and justify why they might return your private property to you — and it’s not a sure thing by any means.
I don’t read it that way. I think you’re mixing up two different laws.
The first law says they will keep track of domestic abuse complaints even when no arrest is made.
A second law deals with the fact that possessing a firearm was ALREADY illegal for people who have Protective Orders against them, but that there was no legally defined process for confiscating / turning over any weapons. You now have to fill out a form. I’ve found other articles that say the process also involves an appearance before a judge, but this article doesn’t mention that.
I already linked to a Wiki article about Federal laws about this. Here are some Wisconsin laws that were already on the books in July of 2012....
http://smartgunlaws.org/domestic-violence-and-firearms-in-wisconsin/