City of Milwaukee - File #: 041635

• File #: 041635
• Version: 1
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 3/16/2005
• In control: JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE
• Final action: 5/3/2005
• Title: Substitute resolution expressing the City of Milwaukee's support for passage of 2005 Wisconsin Senate Bill 148, an act relating to the registration of firearms in Milwaukee County.
• Sponsors: ALD. HAMILTON, ALD. WADE, ALD. MCGEE JR., ALD. HINES JR., ALD. MURPHY, ALD. D'AMATO
• Indexes: DANGEROUS WEAPONS, FIREARMS, STATE LEGISLATION

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
5/12/2005	1	MAYOR	SIGNED
5/3/2005	1	COMMON COUNCIL	ADOPTED; Minutes note: Ald. Murphy moved to hold this matter until a later point in the meeting. Ald. Witkowiak objected. This matter was considered, as a matter of separate action, priot to the final roll call on the report of the Judiciary and Legislation Committee.	Pass	8:5
4/25/2005	0	JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION; Minutes note: Speakers present: Wisconsin Senator Spencer Coggs - in support Mona Winbush - Mothers Against Gun Violence - in support Deborah Feifer - Mothers Against Gun Violence - in support Ald. Joe Dudzik - in opposition	Pass	4:0
4/22/2005	1	CITY CLERK	DRAFT SUBMITTED
4/18/2005	0	JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
4/4/2005	0	JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE	HELD TO CALL OF THE CHAIR; Minutes note: Held at the request of the sponsor.	Pass	5:0
3/23/2005	0	JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
3/23/2005	0	JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
3/16/2005	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number
041635
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference

Sponsor
ALD. HAMILTON, WADE, McGEE, HINES, MURPHY AND D'AMATO
Title
Substitute resolution expressing the City of Milwaukee's support for passage of 2005 Wisconsin Senate Bill 148, an act relating to the registration of firearms in Milwaukee County.
Analysis
This resolution expresses the City of Milwaukee's support for passage of 2005 Wisconsin Senate Bill 148, an act relating to the registration of firearms in Milwaukee County requiring individuals who reside in Milwaukee County and who own a firearm to report to the Wisconsin's Department of Justice (DOJ) their name and address, the manufacture, model, and serial number of the firearm and any other identifying characteristic of the firearm specified by DOJ.
Body
Whereas, Firearm-related criminal activity continues to plague many neighborhoods in the City of Milwaukee; and

Whereas, Wisconsin Senate Bill 148, an act requiring an individual who resides in Milwaukee County and who owns a firearm to report to the Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) his/her name and address, the manufacture, model, and serial number of the firearm, and any other identifying characteristic of the firearm specified by the DOJ, could be used in the effort to reduce firearm-related criminal activity; and

Whereas, The registration would apply to handguns, rifles, shotguns and machine guns, but not to firearms designed to fire loose black power, firearms manufactured before 1899, or firearms that cannot be fired or readily restored to firing condition; and

Whereas, The DOJ would maintain a registry of this firearm information and would keep information in the registry confidential, except the DOJ may release the information to law enforcement agencies that are investigating a crime that involves a firearm;
now, therefore, be it

Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee, that the Department of Administration-Intergovernmental Relations D...