Article I section 25:
"The people have the right to keep and bear arms for security, defense, hunting, recreation or any other lawful purpose".
In State v Hamdan the WSC defined keep to mean possess and bear to mean carry(reference para. 41). The Attorney General says we have the constitutional right to open carry. The governor says we can open carry, In the prosecution of Hmdan the State said it had no issue with Hamdan if he had open carried. The State's argument was that the firearm was concealed. What do you want IK. A statute that specifically says "The people of wisconsin have the constitutional right to carry firearms, in the manner of choice, for security, defense, recreation, or any lawful purpose". The state constitution already implies that. Unfortunately the WSC must have been drinking "funny water' when it wrote the Hamdan and Cole judgements. In both judgements it ruled that the prohibition of concealed carry is constitutional because it doesn't infringe on the right to carry. It only prescribes a manner of carry. In Hamdan the WSC said this:
¶71. In circumstances where the State's interest in restricting the right to keep and bear arms is minimal and the private interest in exercising the right is substantial, an individual needs a way to exercise the right without violating the law. We hold, in these circumstances, that regulations limiting a constitutional right to keep and bear arms must leave some realistic alternative means to exercise the right.
¶72. For instance, in order to keep and bear arms for the purpose of securing one's own property, a weapon must be kept somewhere and may need to be handled or moved, all within the weapon owner's property. During these times, the firearm will be either visible or concealed. The State argues that even under the strictest enforcement of the CCW statute, a person lawfully in possession of a firearm will always retain the ability to keep the firearm in the open--holding the weapon in the open, keeping the weapon in a visible holster, displaying the weapon on the wall,32 or otherwise placing the weapon in plain view.
The court ruled in Hamdan and Cole that the concealed carry prohibition statute is constitutional. Only a peace officer can carry a concealed weapon. In paragraph 72 above the WSC recognizes that there are two manners of carry visible (open) and concealed. In paragraph 71 above the WSC ruled that a regulation that limits a constitutional right (concealed carry) "must leave some realistic alternative means to exercise that right" (open carry).
What part of this doesn't the NRA understand. A fifth grader would.
