Supreme Court Aftermath: Wisconsin DA Won’t Prosecute Concealed Carry Laws

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Jackson County District Attorney Gerald R. Fox said in a statement he will no longer prosecute Wisconsin's prohibitions on carrying concealed weapons, transporting uncased or loaded guns in vehicles, carrying guns in public buildings and taverns and carrying switchblades and butterfly knives.

He said the Supreme Court's ruling renders those statutes unconstitutional.

“These so-called ‘public safety' laws only put decent law-abiding citizens at a dangerous disadvantage when it comes to their personal safety, and I for one am glad that this decades-long era of defective thinking on gun issues is over,” Fox wrote in the statement, released this week.

He ended the statement with “Let Freedom Ring.” Read more

Source: ap.org

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