A Bit Confused About Earlier Statements Regarding Wisconsin

[mortablunt]

I was looking up right to carry legislation today and I saw that Wisconsin does not have any laws on the books regarding open carry. I also under stand that in Milwaukee, the police are all under orders to detain people with guns and confiscate the weapon. Thirdly, I know that you cannot openly carry in a vehicle in Wisconsin. However, if you can openly carry any firearm in Wisconsin legally, then why were there threads earlier bemoaning the lack of right to carry? You cannot carry concealed- that's the one thing that you did not have, but that does not translate into a lack of right to carry.

 

[NavyLCDR]

I was looking up right to carry legislation today and I saw that Wisconsin does not have any laws on the books regarding open carry.

Correct. That is exactly why it is LEGAL to open carry in Wisconsin, because there is no statute prohibiting it.

I also under stand that in Milwaukee, the police are all under orders to detain people with guns and confiscate the weapon.

Might be correct or might be rumor. If it is correct, that does NOT make it legal for police to confiscate firearms or to detain people carrying them.

Thirdly, I know that you cannot openly carry in a vehicle in Wisconsin.

That also seems to be true.

However, if you can openly carry any firearm in Wisconsin legally, then why were there threads earlier bemoaning the lack of right to carry? You cannot carry concealed, but there is more than one type of carrying.

There are lots of pro-gun people who simply won't open carry.

 

[RatDrall]

That all changes in a few days.

On November 1st, WI residents will be able to apply for their Concealed Carry permits. The goofy people who wrote the law set it up so that people from other states will be able to legally carry in WI before its own residents can.

Open Carry is still legal, the Milwaukee and Madison police departments were, I believe, ordered by the attourney general not to harass open carriers. It even says in the new law that those carrying openly cannot be ticketed for disorderly conduct.

As of November 1st, you can carry a loaded handgun in a vehicle so long as it is not "obstructed from view". Not sure what this means yet, but it now makes Open Carry easier because you no longer have to unload and case your sidearm while in a vehicle.

 

[TexasRifleman]

However, if you can openly carry any firearm in Wisconsin legally, then why were there threads earlier bemoaning the lack of right to carry?

Sadly there are many "pro gun" people who take a very anti stance at the mention of open carry.

Their belief is that open carry provokes lawmakers into making more laws against open carry.

So, they want open carry to be legal but no one to actually do it so it won't be made illegal.

Makes my head hurt, but that's a pretty common belief.

 

[mortablunt]

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Gunrights doubleplussgood bellyfeel. Carryseen ungood counterlawprompt. Carryhidden good. Doublethink.

Mods, please close the thread.

 

[TexasRifleman]

Closed at OP's request.