MADISON, Wis. — A Wisconsin prosecutor said he won’t enforce a host of state weapons laws after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled this week Americans have a right to own a gun for self-defense.Exactly.
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.”
And Chicago's going to have problems of their own making after their gun law was essentially invalidated. They came up with a hasty new law which even bans legal gun owners from carrying a gun into their own garage or backyard, and someone has now filed a suit against that law. They may unwittingly be writing the demise of gun laws all across the country.
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