A state lawmaker has proposed repealing Wisconsin's 48-hour waiting period to buy a handgun

[a kennedy]

WTH*ll is this??

Sen. Van Wanggaard (R-Racine) is circulating a bill to eliminate the requirement first enacted in 1976.

Wanggaard says the concept is outdated because background checks no longer take 48 hours to complete.

"Generally within the hour, they know whether or not someone can purchase the firearm, and by that time, you're about finished up with your purchases in the store," Wanggaard said. "This just doesn't make any sense to keep this restriction on the books."

Deerfield Pistol and Archery Center sells 15-20 guns a week and stores them in a safe during the 48-hour waiting period.

Brett Fankhauser sells guns in Deerfield and says he could take or leave the bill.

"It's just part of the business," Fankhauser said.

He says it would make some customers happy, because they could leave quicker with a gun.

Wanggaard calls needing to return 48 hours later a "time tax."

"I can't walk in a door and purchase one without having to come back again," Wanggaard said. "There's all the driving involved because that's 45 minutes to where I purchase my firearms from where I live. So now it's causing me more time and money to be able to do that."

But domestic violence organizations call the 48-hour wait critical to victim safety and say it was also intended as a "cooling off" period. He says the most dangerous time for a domestic violence victim is the one or two days during separation.

"You have to ask yourself if someone wants a gun instantaneously or within an hour or two, why do they really need it that quickly?" said Tony Gibart, with End Domestic Violence Wisconsin. "It seems if someone needs it very quickly, chances are they are up to no good.

Wanggaard disagrees and points out that there's no waiting period for long guns.

"There's also no waiting period on knives and edged weapons and a lot of homicides occur that way," Wanggaard said. "Are we going to put a 48-hour waiting period on a set of kitchen utensils or baseball bats?"

http://www.channel3000.com/news/state-lawmaker-proposes-bill-that-would-eliminate-48hour-waiting-period-for-handguns/31141302

[Scuba]

1. These fuckers are nuts! My state is being ruined by Republican ALEC shills. Even Republicans agree..

Listen here if you missed this. It's a great dissection of Walker's draconian proposals.


http://www.wpr.org/listen/712036

It’s a special state budget edition of the Week in Review! Joy Cardin welcomes former senators Dale Schultz and Bob Jauch to discuss the “Wisconsin Idea.” Plus, they weigh in on Gov. Scott Walker’s ideas for public broadcasting, education, the Department of Natural Resources, and other areas....

[HelenWheels]

6. Isn't this special

If a woman wants an abortion she has to jump through all kinds of hoops but we sure can't inconvenience a gun owner.

[Arcadiasix]

2. Good!

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

3. There's no waiting period with knives because most people already own plenty.

And there's no 'black market' in buying a knife and selling it to someone else who can't pass a 'background check'.

There aren't knife' straw purchasers running around.

We have a subset of people in the general public who are not allowed to own firearms. So we end up with rules to try and make it more difficult for them to get guns easily.

The only subset of people I know in society who aren't allowed to own knives or baseball bats are already incarcerated, and again, there are rules and processes in prisons and mental facilities to make sure they don't get their hands on knives or baseball bats.

[Jackpine Radical]

9. And there are no restrictions on magazine size

for bats & knives. Why should we have one for guns?

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

10. Bats and knives come with magazines?

Baseball quarterly?

I'm pretty sure apart from a few sculptural statues, I've never seen a bat bigger than a set, standard size. And there are various 'knife' size rules/laws around, especially in dealing with 'carry' of such. Try to watch somebody stroll into a mall with a 'knife' that's 2 or 3 feet long strapped to their belt, and before long the police will be coming along to say 'No, Just no'.

Now if bats 'fired' smaller bats at people, or knives 'fired' smaller knives at people (oh, and I seem to recall knives that DO launch themselves are illegal in a lot of places) then we might start talking about magazine sizes for bats and knives.

[Jackpine Radical]

11. You do realize that this was a sort of dadaesque lampooning

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of people who try to draw false equivalencies between guns & less lethally efficient implements…?

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

12. Nope. But I do now, nt

[Duckhunter935]

4. why have this if

you already have a gun?

I would like to see any proof that this works as intended.

[pipoman]

5. Most states don't require a waiting period

And I don't believe there is a shred of proof it has any statistical effect on homicides. It can also work counter to what is stated in this article, a victim of domestic abuse who believes their life is in immediate danger has to wait 48 hours too..

[Thor_MN]

7. "So now it's causing me more time and money"

How many more firearms does he intend to purchase, such that this is a burden?

[old guy]

8. My first thought too.

It's not like you buy several guns a week like a taco, or do they? It is impossible to explain stupidity.