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In Wisconsin open carry is legal but frowned upon. We do not have CC (yet).
Permits are not required to purchase a handgun. Just the normal background checks for anyone over the age of 21.
BUT no one I know would recommend a citizen carry openly in any city in this state as a police office can arrest you for something else. In Basic Pistol classes we tell our students to use common sense about this, to put themselves in an officers boots for a minute. Since it isn't commonly done you'll be suspect. And any bad publicity could hurt our efforts to get the Right to Carry passed as many newspapers are not overly supportive and the anti-gun people would just love to have something to shout about.
I have only heard of one local person who openly carried in Sheboygan, WI. A few years ago I was told he went into a K-mart back when they sold ammo to buy same. He was a well known local mud raker and no one made any complaints, which we assume was what he had in mind in the first place. His lawyer was probably standing by with a camera.
It would not be legal to openly carry in an auto as all firearms must be unloaded, cased and carried in the trunk of a car. In a truck they should be either in the glove compartment or under the passenger seat and away from the driver.
Open carry is more acceptable in rural areas, in the field for example, but then you'd better have a hunting lic. Hunting with a handgun is legal in WI.
We continue to work on the Right to Carry and a bill will be again be introduced in Sept and it has a lot of support from both houses. Our governor may be the problem in getting it into law.
Permits are not required to purchase a handgun. Just the normal background checks for anyone over the age of 21.
BUT no one I know would recommend a citizen carry openly in any city in this state as a police office can arrest you for something else. In Basic Pistol classes we tell our students to use common sense about this, to put themselves in an officers boots for a minute. Since it isn't commonly done you'll be suspect. And any bad publicity could hurt our efforts to get the Right to Carry passed as many newspapers are not overly supportive and the anti-gun people would just love to have something to shout about.
I have only heard of one local person who openly carried in Sheboygan, WI. A few years ago I was told he went into a K-mart back when they sold ammo to buy same. He was a well known local mud raker and no one made any complaints, which we assume was what he had in mind in the first place. His lawyer was probably standing by with a camera.
It would not be legal to openly carry in an auto as all firearms must be unloaded, cased and carried in the trunk of a car. In a truck they should be either in the glove compartment or under the passenger seat and away from the driver.
Open carry is more acceptable in rural areas, in the field for example, but then you'd better have a hunting lic. Hunting with a handgun is legal in WI.
We continue to work on the Right to Carry and a bill will be again be introduced in Sept and it has a lot of support from both houses. Our governor may be the problem in getting it into law.