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Doyle: Local communities should be able to bar open carrying of guns
By Stacy Forster of the Journal Sentinel
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Posted: Apr. 21, 2009 12:00 p.m.

Madison - Local communities should be able to adopt their own ordinances relating to guns, including prohibiting people from carrying them openly, Gov. Jim Doyle said Tuesday.

Doyle, a Democrat, was reacting to a memorandum from Republican Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen on Monday that said it's legal to openly carry a gun on the street in Wisconsin. Van Hollen advised prosecutors that merely having a gun doesn't warrant a disorderly conduct charge.

Doyle said prosecutors and police departments will have to weigh whether such situations constitute disorderly conduct, but said a former state policy that allowed local governments to enact their own ordinances requiring guns made sense.

"To me it's a very different issue whether you're walking down Wisconsin Avenue in Milwaukee with a gun on your hip and that's very different than if you're carrying a hunting rifle through a town during hunting season," Doyle said to reporters following an event at Edgewood College.

In 1995, former Gov. Tommy G. Thompson signed into law a bill wiping out about 35 local gun-control ordinances, saying he wanted to empower individuals, not the government. Doyle, who was attorney general at the time, opposed the [1995 Preemption] law, arguing it jeopardized the safety of Wisconsin citizens.

Carrying concealed weapons is not allowed in Wisconsin. Doyle twice vetoed legislation that would have made concealed carry legal.

Doyle stopped short of calling on the Legislature to change the law.

"I think we're just going to have to see how this plays out with local DAs and local police departments," Doyle said.

It pisses me off that this bill hasn't been put to death yet. I find it hard to believe that the Fudds are very active in supporting this trojan horse.

I find it hard to believe that the Fudds are very active in supporting this trojan horse.

XXXX, sorry it has taken so long to get back to you but we are working long hours debating bills on the House floor. I understand your concerns and will share them with Cornish and Dill. Those two Representatives are very "gun" friendly and won't do anything to jeopardize our gun rights!

Thanks for being involved and hope all is well, Rod

Rep. Rod Hamilton
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473.121 DEFINITIONS.

Subd. 2.Metropolitan area or area.

"Metropolitan area" or "area" means the area over which the Metropolitan Council has jurisdiction, including only the counties of Anoka; Carver; Dakota excluding the city of Northfield; Hennepin excluding the cities of Hanover and Rockford; Ramsey; Scott excluding the city of New Prague; and Washington.

NRA really is screwing this up.

Interesting - the legal definition of the Seven County Metro area: (I'll bet the hoplophobes in Northfield wouldn't be too thrilled)

TUESDAY, April 28, 2009
8:00 AM
Finance
Room: 200 State Office Building
Chair: Rep. Lyndon Carlson

Agenda:
HF1238 (Dill) Omnibus game and fish bill.

Proposed Bill, H.F. 128

The reading of the bill indicates that it will be legal to transport an uncased and *loaded* firearm in the passenger compartment of a motor vehicle unless a person is prohibited from possessing a firearm. The two exceptions at the end of the proposal would continue to make it illegal to have a uncased or loaded gun in a car when shining deer or using night vision equipment. I also note that the statute does not limit application to instances where a person is hunting or during hunting seasons.

For the complete wording of the bill please follow this link: H. F. No. 128

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