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Article: Concealed weapon law infringes on rights
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- November 15, 2002
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Concealed weapon law infringes on rights, court told
By DENNIS CHAPTMAN dchaptman@journalsentinel.com, Journal Sentinel
Friday, November 15, 2002
Madison -- Wisconsin's 130-year-old prohibition on carrying
concealed weapons runs afoul of a 1998 constitutional amendment
establishing a right to keep and bear arms, lawyers told the state
Supreme Court Thursday.
Justices on the state's highest court heard arguments in a pair of
Milwaukee cases challenging the concealed carry law as infringing on
the amendment's guarantee of citizens' "right to keep and bear arms
for security, defense, hunting, recreation and any other lawful
purpose."
The court heard arguments in two cases, one in which Capitol ...