Safety
from the Wisconsin news
In less than six weeks, 56,000 people applied for a permit under Wisconsin's new concealed carry law and thousands more bought handguns, swamping the state agency handling the required background checks.
December 19, Running, yelling and teasing may be strictly prohibited in the halls of Baraboo's West Kindergarten Center. But something far more serious is permitted because of a gap in state law: Firearms.
December 19, 2011 A third lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Wisconsin's new law requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls has been filed.
The Milwaukee chapter of the NAACP and Hispanic rights group Voces de la Frontera filed the lawsuit on Friday in Dane County Circuit Court arguing the law violates the right to vote under the state constitution.
The new law makes it illegal to carry a concealed weapon in and around schools. But an older law that generally prohibits people from knowingly possessing a firearm in or on school grounds defines a school as a facility that serves grades 1 through 12. The definition does not include stand-alone kindergartens like the Baraboo center that are not part of a larger school.
