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A hypothetical question.
I'm going to be moving in May to an apartment in a highly gun-unfriendly city (Madison, WI). If the property owner were to take it into his head to do so, could he legally bar me from keeping guns on the premises? If so, would it have to be in the text of the lease agreement, or could he make it "policy" later on?
On the one hand, it's his private property, which would generally mean that yes, he could. On the other hand, I know that renting an apartment puts the apartment in kind of a semi-private area, where neither he nor I have full private property rights.
To clarify, I don't have any reason to think he would try to prevent me from keeping firearms in the apartment. I don't intend to press the issue - don't ask, don't tell strikes me as a good policy in this instance. But I am curious.
I'm going to be moving in May to an apartment in a highly gun-unfriendly city (Madison, WI). If the property owner were to take it into his head to do so, could he legally bar me from keeping guns on the premises? If so, would it have to be in the text of the lease agreement, or could he make it "policy" later on?
On the one hand, it's his private property, which would generally mean that yes, he could. On the other hand, I know that renting an apartment puts the apartment in kind of a semi-private area, where neither he nor I have full private property rights.
To clarify, I don't have any reason to think he would try to prevent me from keeping firearms in the apartment. I don't intend to press the issue - don't ask, don't tell strikes me as a good policy in this instance. But I am curious.