Concealed Carry

Get used to seeing a new sign as you enter any city building in Madison.  The signs will indicate that you are not allowed  to carry a firearm into any City of Madison building. The new State Concealed Carry law goes into effect on November 1^st.  In preparation for this day, city staff have been working to put guidelines into place to announce the restriction regarding firearms in city buildings, on city property and on Madison Metro buses.

It is no secret that this law is bad public policy.  Citizens do not need to carry guns. However, the legislature and this Governor disagree, so we need to make sure that city employees and residents can feel safe and comfortable in city buildings.  The same restrictions apply to bus shelters, transfer stations and park shelters.

As Madison residents, you too are able to post a sign at your home.  Apartment and condo residents need to post for their individual units, but a building owner can post that weapons are prohibited in the common areas.  Business owners are also able to post signs.

You can purchase a sign from the City Clerk's Office, or download it from the city website at www.cityofmadison.com/police/concealedcarry.cfm .  You can also find additional information on the website including Frequently Asked Questions about the new law and how Madison is affected.

 

Comments

[Bob Pierce]

”How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual… as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded over, controlled, supervised, and taken care of.”
~ Dr. Suzanna Gratia Hupp

[Marc Eisen]

What does packing a gun have to do with productivity? Has this actually been studied? Is it like a correlation or a causation, or is this just magical thinking on the part of Dr. Hupp?

[Hieronymous Knickerbocker]

Trustworthy and productive armed citizens? What do you suppose James Brady would say about that concept?

Or Medgar Evers, or William Garfield or Gabrielle Giffords or Phil Hartman or John F. Kennedy or Robert F. Kennedy or Martin Luther King Jr.?

What might we hear on the subject from John Lennon or Abraham Lincoln or William McKinley or Ronald Reagan (Brady's boss at the time) or Theodore Roosevelt or Selena, or Gianni Versace or Andy Warhol or Isaiah Washington?

Malcolm X believed in what the gun lobby likes to call "Second Amendment remedies." Pull the trigger and it's still murder.

The list of people senselessly shot by senselessly armed citizens is as close to endless as a list can be. Be careful what you wish for.

[Steve Erbach]

Hieronymous,

Hello! Fancy seeing you here! And emoting as effectively as on Morrissey's site!

Here I was going to grouse about Mr. Soglin's swipe that "It is no secret that this law is bad public policy," but I was diverted by your appalling appeal to pity.

I say "appalling" because you hide behind cherry-picked morality; and you dodge the issue by imputing criminal intent to anyone who touches a firearm or who supports the Second Amendment.

My word! You certainly have issues with liberty.

Steve Erbach
Neenah, WI