The target in Wisconsin - know the law

As many already know, Wisconsin allows open-carry of loaded firearms. Many people aren't used to seeing sidearms displayed on the hip, but it may become more common in Wisconsin.

I remember the first time I saw open-carry in New Mexico or Arizona. That was back in 1989, and it really got me by surprise. And I was used to being around guns.

Wisconsin Senate Bill 93 is thought of as a Constitutional Carry bill. If passed into law, it could become legal lin Wisconsin to carry a gun in the open or concealed, without a permit. Right now, no permit is needed for open carry. Law-abiding citizens, such as members of Wisconsin Carry, Inc., would like it to be that way for concealed carry, too.

Keep in mind... it's not the law-abiding folks with guns that you have to worry about. It's the criminals, and they are already packing.

A question mark is school zones, which are gun-free school zones (GFSZ) under federal and state law. You can't carry within 1,000 feet of a school, unless you hold a permit to do so.

All this makes it more important for there to be national reciprocity of gun laws. A Uniform Law would be nice. Sort of like with traffic lights: red on top, green on the bottom. Then you know where to look for a red light in all 50 states.

It wasn't all that long ago that Nebraska had a different rule. Wish I had a picture of the old horizontal traffic signal. And, of course, I remember a traffic light near a city bus barn in Denver where the red light was on the bottom and the green on top. The highway department insisted it wasn't that way (but it was, until they corrected it).