Precious Lives
Background checks, dealer licensing requirements in Wisconsin explained
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Federal law requires licensed dealers to subject buyers of handguns, shotguns and rifles to a background check before a sale is made.
Precious Lives
Strong public support, pleas from grieving family fail to move Wisconsin on gun background checks
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18 states require checks in private sales; the NRA counters that such measures ‘cost law-abiding gun owners time, money, and freedom’
Precious Lives
After guns wound and kill, bills pile up for victims and society
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Gun violence costs Wisconsinites billions of dollars a year. Taxpayers pay for most of it in medical bills and incarceration costs. Victims suffer lost wages and trauma that can have long-lasting effects. Communities pay through lowered property values and higher police costs.
Child Gun Laws
Hundreds hurt, killed when Wisconsin teens get guns
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Guns and teens can be a lethal mix. Immaturity and impulsiveness, combined with weapons that can kill with the squeeze of a trigger, have caused death and devastating injuries to Wisconsin children and adults.
Precious Lives
Child gun laws in Wisconsin
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Wisconsin gun laws prohibit children from possessing firearms, with few exceptions.
Precious Lives
Bullets exacted terrible toll on children, African Americans
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African Americans were more than 30 times as likely as non-Hispanic whites to be murdered by guns in 2014, a Center analysis found.
Collaborations
Precious Lives: Two-year project will examine gun violence among youth and seek solutions
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A newly launched two-year project investigating the problem of gun violence among young people, its causes, and potential solutions in the Milwaukee area and statewide.
Gun Violence
Profiles in carnage
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This story is the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism’s first report for Precious Lives, a newly launched two-year project investigating the problem of gun violence among young people, its causes, and potential solutions in the Milwaukee area and statewide. Read more about the project. Main story
Bullets exacted terrible toll on children, African Americans A Center analysis found that African Americans were more than 30 times as likely as non-Hispanic whites to be murdered by guns in Wisconsin last year. James A. Witt: In January, police asked to check on the well-being of this 60-year-old resident in the village of Summit in Waukesha County found his body wrapped in a blanket; he had died from a gunshot wound. His son Shawn Witt was charged with first-degree intentional homicide and possession of heroin.
alberta darling
Gun bill died without shots being fired
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The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism filed a request with Darling’s office for her records on the bill. The 137 released pages provide some insight into what went on behind the scenes, but fall short of explaining why.
Guns
Gun bills fail, shots fly
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Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn implored the community to stop tolerating young men carrying guns. And he called on the governor and Legislature “to pass a law that makes these little monsters afraid to get locked up for possessing a gun.”
Concealed Carry
State weapons law conceals information
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More than 4,000 applicants were denied a Wisconsin concealed carry license and more than 400 had their licenses revoked or suspended in the program’s first 14 months, records show. These included dozens of felons, domestic abusers, illegal drug users and “fugitives from justice.”
Guns
Police account of shooting disputed
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The owner of a home mistakenly entered by an intoxicated neighbor who was shot and killed by a Madison police officer arriving on the scene said he tried repeatedly to inform the officer that the intruder was someone known to him.