The GOP is resisting Governor Evers' special session to consider legislation to bring some sanity back to gun laws. Please take a few moments to contact your Assembly Reps and Senator urging them to support legislation to create universal background checks and "red flag" laws, which would restrict a gunowner's access to a gun when they are considered a risk to themselves or others.
Here's contact information for Wauwatosa State legislators:
Dale Kooyenga
Telephone:
(608) 266-2512
(866) 817-6061
Email: [email protected]
Rob Hutton
Telephone:
(608) 267-9836
(888) 534-0013
Email: [email protected]
Robyn Vining
Telephone:
(608) 266-9180
(888) 534-0014
Email: [email protected]
Wisconsinites want sensible gun control laws. For example in a recent MU Law School poll, an overwhelming majority backed the "red flag law" that Evers is calling for:
| Support | Oppose | Don't know | n | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | 74 | 15 | 12 | 182 |
| Democrat | 89 | 8 | 3 | 173 |
| Independent | 78 | 9 | 13 | 26 |
| Other/None | 49 | 51 | 0 | 4 |
So why won't Scott Fitzgerald refuse to put this to a vote? Here's one answer:
[From the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign]
GOP leaders in both houses said earlier this year that they would not support legislation that puts new restrictions on buying or possessing guns. Gun control laws are routinely opposed by the National Rifle Association (NRA), which is a strong backer of Republican legislative and statewide candidates.
The NRA has spent nearly $5.5 million during the past 20 years on outside electioneering activities to support GOP and conservative legislative and statewide candidates. Most of that, more than $4.4 million, was spent to support former GOP Gov. Scott Walker’s 2010, 2012, 2014, and 2018 campaigns for governor. Walker lost his bid for a third four-year term last November to Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, who has received no contributions or election support from the NRA.
In addition to outside electioneering activities, NRA political action committees have directly contributed $119,450 to all legislative and statewide candidates between January 1998 and June 2019. The top recipient of the group’s direct campaign contributions was Walker, who received $17,500 in NRA PAC contributions.
