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The specifics of Wisconsin's self-defense law, including the lack of a duty to retreat and the consideration of provocation.
dismissed the misdemeanor count charging with possession of a dangerous weapon by a person under 18 because he accepted a statutory reading that the prohibition applies only to minors who possess shor...
’s self-defense statute and jury instructions framed the central legal question in the trial: whether the defendant reasonably believed deadly force was necessary and whether he forfeited that privile...
makes it a crime for anyone under 18 to “,” but it carves express exceptions for rifles and shotguns tied to , supervised target practice, and compliance with short‑barrel prohibitions—principally cod...
in 2020 made it a Class A misdemeanor for anyone under 18 to “possess or go armed with a dangerous weapon,” but it carved explicit, narrow exceptions that treated long guns (rifles and shotguns) diffe...
Fact‑checkers such as and initially judged saying ’s August 2020 possession of an AR‑style rifle was “perfectly legal” to be false or at best legally murky, pointing to statutes that criminalize under...