WI - Illegal Local Ordinances Defeated

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Jeff Niles asked his local police chief about his ability to openly carry a gun a few months ago. The response from the Police Chief to Jeff was essentially no you can’t carry a gun because Milton has a local ordinance that prohibits open carry. However Jeff knew the ordinance was unenforceable and he was just trying to determine if the Police Chief knew the ordinance was unenforceable as well. It turns out the Chief apparently did not know that Wisconsin Stat. § 66.0409 (local regulation of firearms) effectively repealed the local ordinance which prohibited citizens from carrying a gun, almost fourteen years ago.

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[daveohno]

I've often heard that some people in the State of Wisconsin feel that the federal law that allows police officers to carry their weapons into any other state in the union doesn't apply to Wisconsin. I wonder if this is true?