The bill signed by Walker amends an ALREADY EXISTING domestic violence law, which was enacted many years ago to implement the requirements of the 1997 federal law that JoeDetweiler points out in #21. The already long-existing law already specified surrender of firearms if there is a domestic violence charge.
The press have spun this as seeming to be new legislation, in a way to alienate 2A people away from Walker.
The legislation says:
Under current law, a person is prohibited from possessing a firearm and must surrender any firearm he or she possesses if he or she is subject to a domestic abuse injunction, a child abuse injunction, or, if the court determines that he or she may use a firearm to harm another or endanger public safety, a harassment injunction (injunction). A person who is subject to an injunction (respondent) must surrender his or her firearm to a sheriff or to a third party approved by the court and is guilty of a Class G felony if convicted of possessing a firearm while subject to the injunction. This bill creates a procedure for notifying a person, when the person is served with a petition for an injunction hearing, of the prohibition against possessing a firearm and of the requirement to surrender any firearm.The Wisconsin law, unlike many states' domestic violence laws, gives the gun owner the option of entrusting his guns to a relative, friend, or other person approved by the judge to store the guns until the expiration of the court order.The bill also creates a procedure for surrendering firearms after the court grants an injunction....
Thank you for the added information.
I’m stunned at the amount of dumping on Walker has occurred in one short thread. My guess is they weren’t a ‘fan’ of him to begin with.
Thank you. Good to know. I’ll pass it on.
I wasn’t going to let that stop me from helping him.