Wisconsin Carry has been doing great work in the arena of both open and concealed carry – specifically keeping an eye on what’s happening around the state and providing legal assistance to individuals whose cases could affect the future success of concealed carry in Wisconsin.
They are also believe that although training is good, it shouldn’t be mandated or costly, but should be left up to the individual to decide what the right training is for them.
They have taken great initiative to offer concealed carry classes for FREE around the state. These classes, some of them bringing hundreds of participants, have been very successful. The new permanent rules being reviewed would eliminate these classes due to size.
Please take a moment to read the letter below and also proactively and appropriately respond to the Governors office with your own phone call, letter, or email.
Thanks!
~ Andy
Greetings in Freedom,
When Act 35 (Wisconsin’s concealed carry law) went into effect in November of last year there were “emergency rules” that were in place that defined the specific requirements of how the law would be implemented. These rules have been in place since November 1st and are the rules under which over 120,000 concealed carry licenses have been issued.
The Department of Justice now wants to implement “permanent rules” that are different from the “emergency rules”. Most notably, the DOJ wants to limit class size for the state mandated “training class” that one must take before they may apply for a license to 50 people or less.
A month or so ago WCI emailed a request/notification of the Department of Justice’s planned public hearings regarding the proposed permanent rules and the changes from the emergency rules.
Those public hearings were held and despite objections from a few that attended, the Department of Justice did NOT remove the “50 person limit” from the finalized permanent rules that have been submitted to Governor Walker for his final approval.
The permanent rules now sit on the Governor’s desk awaiting his approval, or rejection.
Limiting class size to 50 people would severely inhibit WCI’s ability to offer of FREE concealed carry license class to all those who seek to attend. Many of our classes are smaller than 50 people. Other classes in which we have access to large venues very well suited to larger classes often seat up to 200 people.
Those venue’s have theater style seating and top-notch audio-visual capabilities. Microphones are available for attendee’s to ask questions and the instructors stick around for as long as needed afterwards to answer any other questions people have. We believe the government should not arbitrarily limit class size to 50 people but instead leave it up to individual organizations to determine an appropriate class size depending on the venue and resources they have available.
This is our last chance to get these permanent rules changed. PLEASE take a few seconds to call, write, or email governor Walker and ask him to send the proposed permanent rules for Act 35 that would arbitrarily limit class size to 50 people back to the DOJ. Ask Governor Walker to ask the DOJ to remove the 50 person limit before resubmitting them to him for approval.
Ask Governor Walker to reject the rules on the basis of the ARBITRARY 50 person limit because that would severely reduce the capacity of Wisconsin Carry to provide free training to the number of those who are encumbered by the cost of the training mandate that Act 35 imposed.
Tell him that while we had advocated for and believe in constitutional carry, we have worked within the current training mandate to ensure that people’s right to carry won’t be infringed just because they can’t afford to pay for the state mandated class.
Tell governor Walker that as an all volunteer organization, we deserve the opportunity to maximize the efforts of our volunteer instructors by allowing the organization, NOT the state to determine based on the capacity and audio visual capabilities of a particular venue, how many people could be served in a class.
Tell governor Walker that we should be EASING restrictions and making it easier to exercise the constitutionally guaranteed human right to self-defense, not making it harder to meet the requirements of the state.
In the words of Paul Ryan a few days ago, at his speech in Waukesha “we in Wisconsin KNOW where our rights come from, they come from nature or god NOT government.” Governor Walker, PLEASE do not place yet another increasing restriction on the right to self defense which our Bill of Rights assures us is an unalienable right that SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.
Email
govgeneral@wisconsin.gov
Mail
Office of Governor Scott Walker
115 East Capitol
Madison, WI 53702
Phone
(608) 266-1212
Carry On!
Nik Clark
Chairman/President – Wisconsin Carry, Inc.
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doj wants to limit people on personal protection and limit access to those who cant afford.doyle must be dining with the doj.more restrictions,less access.more political interferance.back ground checks,finger printing,voice annelizing,face printing,rfid chip inplacement.and so,where is the freedom from tyranny and state-goverment controle?set up traing,good.amplyfing and tweeking training like they do in law enfercement,not such a hot idea.
here’s a thought,why not put a booklet to gether for the people who want to carry and one for state and local poilce.that way if a person is stopped law enforcement can look up what is and what is not leagel for carrying a weapon when they confront the person.sort of a a right to carry for imbacils.that way both police and the person can bone up if they get confused.
Great idea, Gene. If you put it together – I’ll promote it on the site.