Posted on 01/01/2017 7:58:05 AM PST by marktwain
Wisconsin has made incremental progress in restoring the right to keep and bear arms in the last few years. Representative Jesse Kremer has been an active Second Amendment supporter in the legislature. He was re-elected in the 2016 presidential year. The state has built on the Constitutional amendment passed in 1998, with 74% of the vote.
The people have the right to keep and bear arms for security, defense, hunting, recreation or any other lawful purposeRepresentative Kremer seems to believe that the amendment, now Article 1, Section 25 of the Wisconsin state constitution, means what it says.
On the Wisconsin Gun Owners website, Kremer has included his own petition for supporters of the measure.Representative Kremer recently appeared on Wisconsin Public Radio, defending his objectives. Here is a link to archived WPR program:
Kremer confirmed that the proposal is one of several pro-gun initiatives he plans to introduce early in the coming legislative session. He’s also working with other Republican lawmakers on introducing a “constitutional carry” law, which would allow anyone who can legally own a firearm to carry it without a permit. He said the permit process would still be in place so that gun owners could carry their firearms in states with reciprocity agreements. A permit also would likely be required to carry a firearm on campus, he said.
Kremer said both parties are working to make college campuses safer but argued that college students who are of legal concealed carry age should have the same rights as those who are the same age but not in college.Wisconsin has suffered from a lack of strong Second Amendment leadership in the legislature since Senator Pam Galloway resigned in March of 2012, for health reasons in her family. Galloway had been instrumental in passing Act 35, one of the most successful shall issue permit laws, in 2011. The legislature seems primed to pass significant reforms, but leadership on the issue has been lacking.
“I feel we need to be proactive for a bill like this where we provide protection and prevent crime around our college campuses,” he said.
Kremer told The Daily Cardinal last week that he plans on reintroducing a campus carry bill next session, although he said it may not be rolled out immediately at the beginning of the next legislative session in January.
If this goes through mark another one into the win column.
It is much better that we make the anti’s fight us then us fighting them.
This is good to see, but I would also like to see Constitutional carry in Wisconsin being pushed in the legislature again - we almost had it.
I should not have to pay for a permit that is a Constitutional right, nor do I want government to know who has the guns.
Every state that went constitutional carry has went through many steps.
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