Number
240435
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference
Sponsor
ALD. SPIKER
Title
A substitute ordinance banning bump stocks in the City of Milwaukee.
Sections
105-34-2-b am
Analysis
This ordinance amends the definition of a dangerous weapon to include a weapon accessory capable of producing death or great bodily harm, and further adds to the list of dangerous weapons a bump stock or any device designed to allow for rapid fire from a non-automatic firearm.
Body
Whereas, Wisconsin Statute 66.0409(2) preempts the City of Milwaukee from regulating the sale, purchase, purchase delay, transfer, ownership, use, keeping, possession, bearing, transportation, licensing, permitting, registration or taxation of any firearm or part of a firearm, including ammunition and reloader components, unless the ordinance or resolution is the same as or similar to, and no more stringent than, a state statute; and
Whereas, The intention of Wisconsin Statute 66.0409(2) is to ensure that Wisconsin citizens are unimpeded in their right to legally own a firearm, the parts that make up a firearm, or the equipment to create ammunition for that firearm; and
Whereas, To be a part of something that part must be a piece or element that comprises the whole; and
Whereas, A firearm without a trigger is not whole, because a firearm with no trigger cannot fire; and
Whereas, A firearm without a shoulder strap or custom grip fires regardless of the presence of these features, meaning that such aftermarket products cannot be considered intrinsic parts of any firearm; and
Whereas, A bump stock is not a firearm, but an aftermarket product that is in no way an element or component part of any firearm; and
Whereas, A bump stock plays no role in reloading, either the practice of assembling ammunition using previously fired cartridge cases nor replenishing the firearm with additional ammunition; and
Whereas, A bump stock is an attachment that allows a semi-automatic firearm to fire in a rapid, in...
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