Posted on 06/15/2024 6:44:30 AM PDT by marktwain
On June 6, 2024, the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty filed a lawsuit against Steven Little in his official capacity as Acting Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR), demanding the Court temporarily and permanently enjoin enforcement of Wis. Admin. Code § NR 20.05(2).
The DNR regulation bans possession of firearms in a wide variety of locations and activities. It directly violates the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. Virtually any firearm “might be used for the purpose of fishing.” The lawsuit does not claim a violation of Wisconsin Section 25, although the regulation also appears to violate Section 25.
The people have the right to keep and bear arms for security, defense, hunting, recreation, or any other lawful purpose. (Art. 1, § 25)
A far-left Wisconsin Supreme Court essentially nullified Section 25 in State v Hamden in 2003. Because of the 2022 election, the Wisconsin Supreme Court is currently back under the control of far-left judges. This may explain the strategy of citing the U.S. Second Amendment but not Section 25 of the Wisconsin Constitution.
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What a BS regulation.
This is weird.
I believe it is intended to prevent the use of firearms to take fish from shallow streams ( example salmon or steelhead trout spawning upstream from large lakes) by shooting the fish with rifles or shotguns. The Fish Cops can thus arrest/ticket/confiscate firearms found in possession by residents near fishing areas. No poaching of fish need have happened yet, or witnessed, just the possession is a presumption of actual guilt by the fish cops of these crimes.
Used to be up in the northwoods of Wisconsin, musky fisherman would use 22’s to finish off the big fish.
Do Not Resuscitate.
Apparently fishing with guns is a lost art in the USA.
The rule was created out of thin air by the Wisconsin DNR in 1999.
It starts at your local city. They make up rules as they go. I am fighting it right now.
All of out 3-letter agencies are communistic, even anti-American.
There is no exception for the "Fish Cops" to be armed. If they are carrying firearms, they are flagantly violating the DNR regulation.
People could take pictures of the "Fish Cops" with a firearm on the bank or shoreline, and turn them in on the hotline for violating the DNR regulation.
Shooting fish? Who knew?
A law should be passed that any person or people who create or pass an unconstitutional law, such person or people responsible for the creation or passage of such aforementioned law, shall be sentenced to a minimum of 10 years and fined no less than $250,000.
It will stop the nonsense.
we desperately need to get free of unconstitutional agencies and agencies that create “regulations” to enslave us
Well, it does say “for the purpose of fishing”. So, you can’t shoot a fish but, interpreted correctly, you can still use it for self-defense.
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10023
Notice I said it is a “start”.
Actually, it says: "..that might be used for the purpose of fishing."
Any firearm "might be used for the purpose of fishing."
That is to define the water, not the purpose. Fish are everywhere in Wisconsin, you know, everywhere there is water. It is like their definition of "wetlands."
Bow fishing is effective and legal in most places I have heard about.
What is the point in this crap? To make us all hate the appointed idiots in government.
Pretty sure Oregon still allows permit-less concealed carry for those participating in or going to, or coming from lawful fishing activity.
I have heard of dynamite being used. Is the DNR against that as well? //sarc//
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