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Wisconsin to Remove DNR Rule that Violated Second Amendment
AmmoLand ^ | January 31, 2025 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 02/08/2025 4:45:19 AM PST by marktwain

On Wednesday, January 29th, 2025, the Wisconsin Legislature Joint Committee for the Review of Administrative Rules (JCRAR) approved the repeal of Wis. Admin. Code § NR 20.05(2).

“No person may…[p]ossess or control any firearm, gun or similar device at any time while on the waters, banks or shores that might be used for the purpose of fishing.”

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) rule has been in place since 1999. It effectively banned the possession of firearms in wide areas of the State. The repeal took place because the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) filed a lawsuit on June 6, 2024, as reported on AmmoLand.

Because the violation of the United States Second Amendment and Wisconsin Constitution Section 25 was obvious, Acting Secretary of the Wisconsin DNR Steven Little agreed to to repeal Wis. Admin. Code § NR 20.05(2) as soon as possible.

The website of the Wisconsin Administrative Code shows the rule has been suspended since December 17, 2024.

Bureaucracies move slowly. Changes in administrative rules in Wisconsin must be approved by the legislature, specifically the Joint Committee for the Review of Administrative Rules. On January 29th, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported the JCRAR had approved of the repeal of the rule. From jsonline.com:

After announcement of the lawsuit last year, the Department of Natural Resources pledged to repeal the rule, and said it already didn’t enforce the rule. But, the agency said, anglers still won’t be allowed to use guns to shoot fish, just simply carry them for protection.

The rule applied to everyone, not just anglers. “No person” is everyone. There was no exception, even for law enforcement.


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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: 2a; banglist; dnr; water; wi; wisconsin
In Wisconsin, administrative rules must be approved by the State Legislature. Change or removal of administrative rules must also be approved. Skylar Croy, an attorney with the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty confirmed the JCRAR vote of 7-3 to approve the change.
1 posted on 02/08/2025 4:45:19 AM PST by marktwain
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To: marktwain

Firearms have very little penetration in water and are useless for fishing anyway. I prefer dynamite for pond fishing.......


2 posted on 02/08/2025 4:49:00 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: marktwain
“No person may…[p]ossess or control any firearm, gun or similar device at any time while on the waters, banks or shores that might be used for the purpose of fishing.”

Well, that's one way to prevent people from losing their entire arsenals while fishing.

3 posted on 02/08/2025 5:03:29 AM PST by KarlInOhio (“Forget it, Jake. It's California.”)
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To: KarlInOhio

Now that the jokes are coming :)

I had to read to get grisly images of the connection between the 2nd Amendment and ”Do Not Resuscitate” out of my head!


4 posted on 02/08/2025 5:17:58 AM PST by Empire_of_Liberty ( )
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To: Hot Tabasco

Great advice! my neighbor said, though, be careful of dynamite fishing in a particular local lake because when O. was prez a lot of poor unfortunate folks lost whole boatloads of Guns and ammo. while fishing dontchaknow.


5 posted on 02/08/2025 5:39:43 AM PST by Qwapisking ("The left will rue the day they cheated Trump out of the 2020 election forever" L.Star )
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To: marktwain
How can Do Not Resuscitate orders violate the Second Amendment?

Oh, never mind 🙄

6 posted on 02/08/2025 5:51:04 AM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: marktwain

When I left Wisconsin, the state of my birth, in October of 1980, the DNR was already a corrupt organization, using thugs and goons to strong-arm folks who owned property on recently designated “wild rivers” to sell out to the state. We had 40 acres on the Pike River in Marionette County that my Great Grandfather had purchased and we successfully resisted.

I hope that the DNR gets its wings trimmed…with a figurative chainsaw!


7 posted on 02/08/2025 6:22:02 AM PST by Redleg Duke (“Time to Play Cowboys and Snowflakes!”)
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To: Hot Tabasco

PRETTY HARD TO DUCK HUNT———


8 posted on 02/08/2025 6:30:36 AM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: marktwain

Im thinking Do Not Resusitate


9 posted on 02/08/2025 6:33:00 AM PST by George from New England (escaped CT back in 2006)
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To: Hot Tabasco

—”I prefer dynamite for pond fishing.......”

A frag works best, they sink nicely and has a built-in timer that goes off at a good depth. M67 grenade fragmentation.

Occasionaly fish would float to the surface afterward and the Vietnamese would scoop them up.


10 posted on 02/08/2025 7:09:08 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: Redleg Duke

“I hope that the DNR gets its wings trimmed…with a figurative chainsaw!”

A friend’s family are farmers near Peshtigo Wisconsin, and I hunted there for many years.

Until a group was TRAPED by the NDR.

A trail around a thicket goes between two fields at one point it is illegally close to a road you cannot see.

But DNR measured it with a tape measure...

It cost them $100 each.

It was a setup.


11 posted on 02/08/2025 7:32:07 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: Hot Tabasco
So you prefer dynamite for pond fishing......

Wink, wink so how much dynamite is required to fish just like Crocodile Dundee {1986 action comedy film set in the Australian Outback and in New York City. It stars Paul Hogan as the weathered Mick Dundee}

12 posted on 02/08/2025 8:49:00 AM PST by Stanwood_Dave ("Testilying." Cop's lie, only while testifying, as taught in their respected Police Academy(s). )
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To: DUMBGRUNT

That smells like them. The eco-freaks from the University of Wisconsin - Madison took over most of Wisconsin government, especially the DNR.


13 posted on 02/08/2025 9:36:13 AM PST by Redleg Duke (“Time to Play Cowboys and Snowflakes!”)
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To: Stanwood_Dave
So you prefer dynamite for pond fishing......

I've always used a rod and reel but never had any luck. So, I thought I'd try a new approach....

14 posted on 02/08/2025 10:07:24 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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