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Wisconsin’s high court broadens who can carry concealed guns with call to close ‘dangerous loophole’
MADISON, Wis. — A unanimous Wisconsin Supreme Court docket has broadened who can legally carry hid weapons and different weapons within the state, overturning a decrease courtroom’s ruling coping with a person whose license was revoked on account of a home violence conviction.
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The courtroom dominated Friday that disorderly conduct is just not a misdemeanor crime of home violence underneath federal legislation, and doesn’t disqualify an individual from holding a hid carry license.
Justice Jill Karofsky concurred, however in a separate opinion referred to as on the Legislature to shut what she referred to as a “harmful loophole” within the legislation.
The case entails a person who was convicted in 1993 in Door County of misdemeanor home violence.
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